The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

[F1 Modification of the Water Framework Directive E+W

13.— (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the Water Framework Directive is to be read in accordance with this paragraph.

(2) Article 2 is to be read as if paragraph 30 were omitted.

(3) Article 11(3)(j) is to be read as if—

(a) the reference to “Member States” were a reference to the appropriate authority or appropriate agency;

(b) in the words after the final indent, for “established for that body of groundwater” there were substituted “ (which has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016) in relation to a river basin district ”.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1A inserted (31.12.2020) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/39), reg. 1, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2019/559, regs. 1(2), 3(3); S.I. 2019/1078, regs. 1, 3; S.I. 2020/1376, regs. 1(4), 4(2); S.I. 2020/1540, regs. 1(3), 10, 13(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)