SCHEDULE 4UK STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2003

181.—(1) Regulation 12 is amended as follows.

(2) For “Agency”, in each place where it occurs, substitute “appropriate agency”.

(3) In paragraph (1)—

(a)in sub-paragraph (a)(i), for “it is to take” substitute “the appropriate agency is to take”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (b), for “which it considers” substitute “which the appropriate agency considers”.

(4) In paragraph (2)(d), for “it thinks fit” substitute “the appropriate agency thinks fit”.

(5) In paragraph (5)(a)—

(a)at the end of paragraph (i) insert “and”;

(b)omit paragraph (ii);

(c)in paragraph (iii), for “and the Countryside Council for Wales” substitute “in relation to the part in England”.