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Added1. Without prejudice to Article 9 of Directive 2000/60/EC and to the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, Member States shall, whilst taking into account the local and regional perspectives and circumstances for water distribution, take all necessary measures to improve universal access for all to water intended for human consumption and promote its use on their territory. This shall include all of the following measures:

Added(a) identifying people without access, or with limited access, to water intended for human consumption, including vulnerable and marginalised groups, and reasons for lack of access (such as belonging to a vulnerable and marginalised group), assessing possibilities and taking actions to improve access for those people and informing them about possibilities of connecting to the distribution network or about alternative means to have access to such water;

Added(aa) ensuring the public supply of water intended for human consumption;

Added(b) setting up and maintaining outdoors and indoors equipment, including refill points, for free access to water intended for human consumption in public spaces, particularly in areas of high footfall; this shall be done where technically feasible, in a manner that is proportionate to the need for such measures and taking into account specific local conditions, such as climate and geography;

Added(c) promoting water intended for human consumption by:

Added(i) launching campaigns to inform citizens about the high quality of such tap water and to raise awareness of the nearest designated refill point;

Added(ia) launching campaigns to encourage the general public to carry reusable water bottles and launching initiatives to raise awareness of the location of refill points;

Added(ii) encouraging ensuring the free provision of such water in administrations and public buildings, as well as discouraging the use of water put in single use plastic bottles or containers in such administrations and buildings;

Added(iii) encouraging the free provision of such water for free or for a low service fee, for customers in restaurants, canteens, and catering services. [Am. 113, 165, 191, 208, 166, 192, 169, 195, 170, 196, 197 and 220]

Added2. On the basis of the information gathered under paragraph 1(a), Member States shall take all necessary measures that they consider necessary and appropriate to ensure access to water intended for human consumption for vulnerable and marginalised groups. [Am. 114]

AddedIn case those groups do not have access to water intended for human consumption, Member States shall immediately inform them of the quality of the water they are using and of any action that can be taken to avoid adverse effects on human health resulting from any contamination of that water.

Added2a. Where obligations laid down in this Article are incumbent on local public authorities under national law, Member States shall ensure that such authorities have the means and resources to ensure access to water intended for human consumption and that any measures in that regard are proportionate to the capacities and size of the distribution network concerned. [Am. 173, 199 and 209]

Added2b. Taking into account the data collected under the provisions set out in point (a) of Article 15(1), the Commission shall collaborate with Member States and the European Investment Bank to support municipalities in the Union which lack the necessary capital in order to enable them to access technical assistance, available Union funding and long-term loans at a preferential interest rate, particularly for the purpose of maintaining and renewing water infrastructure in order to ensure the provision of high quality water, and to extend water and sanitation services to vulnerable and marginalised population groups. [Am. 174, 200 and 210]

AddedArticle 14

AddedInformation to the public

Added1. Member States shall ensure that adequate, and up-to-date and accessible information on water intended for human consumption is available, online or in other user-friendly ways, to all persons supplied, in accordance with Annex IV, while complying with applicable data protection rules. [Am. 116]

Added2. Member States shall ensure that all persons supplied receive regularly and at least once a year, and in the most appropriate and easily accessible form (for instance on their invoice or by smart applications) without having to request it, as determined by the competent authorities, the following information: [Am. 117]

Added(a) where costs are recovered through a tariff system, information on the cost structure of the tariff charged per cubic metre of water intended for human consumption, including the distribution of fixed and variable costs, presenting at least costs related to the following elements:; [Am. 118]

Added(i) measures taken by water suppliers for the purposes of the hazard assessment pursuant to Article 8(5); [Am. 119]

Added(ii) treatment and distribution of water intended for human consumption; [Am. 120]

Added(iii) waste water collection and treatment; [Am. 121]

Added(iv) measures taken pursuant to Article 13, in case such measures have been taken by water suppliers; [Am. 122]

Added(aa) information on the quality of water intended for human consumption, including the indicator parameters; [Am. 123]

Added(b) where the costs are recovered through a tariff system, the price of the supply of water intended for human consumption supplied per litre and cubic metre, and the price invoiced per litre; where the costs are not recovered through a tariff system, the total annual costs borne by the water system to ensure compliance with this Directive, accompanied by contextual and relevant information on how water intended for human consumption is supplied to the area; [Am. 124]

Added(ba) the treatment and distribution of water intended for human consumption; [Am. 125]

Added(c) the volume consumed by the household, at least per year or per billing period, together with yearly trends of household consumption, if technically feasible and only if this information is available to the water supplier; [Am. 126]

Added(d) comparisons of the yearly water consumption of the household with an average consumption for a household in the same category, when applicable in accordance with point (c); [Am. 127]

Added(e) a link to the website containing the information set out in Annex IV.

AddedMember States shall set out a clear division of responsibilities with regard to the provision of information under the first subparagraph between water suppliers, stakeholders and competent local bodies. The Commission may is empowered to adopt implementing delegated acts in accordance with Article 19 supplementing this Directive by specifying the format of, and modalities to present, the information to be provided under the first subparagraph. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 20(2). [Am. 128]

Added3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 are without prejudice to Directives 2003/4/EC and 2007/2/EC.

AddedArticle 15

AddedInformation on monitoring of implementation

Added1. Without prejudice to Directive 2003/4/EC and Directive 2007/2/EC, Member States, assisted by the European Environment Agency, shall:

Added(a) set up by … [6 years after the end-date for transposition of this Directive], and update every 6 years thereafter, a data set containing information on the measures taken under Article 13, and on the share of their population that has access to water intended for human consumption;

Added(b) set up by … [3 years after the end-date for transposition of this Directive], and update every 3 years thereafter, a data set containing the hazard and domestic distribution risk assessments performed in accordance with Articles 8 and 10, respectively, including the following elements:

Added(i) the abstraction points identified under Article 8(1)(a);

Added(ii) the monitoring results collected in accordance with Article 8(1)(d) and Article 10(1)(b); and

Added(iii) concise information on measures taken pursuant to Article 8(5) and Article 10(2);

Added(c) set up, and update annually thereafter, a data set containing monitoring results, in cases of exceedances of the parametric values set in Annex I, parts A and B, collected in accordance with Articles 9 and 11 and information about the remedial actions taken in accordance with Article 12;

Added(d) set up, and update annually thereafter, a data set containing information on drinking water incidents that have caused potential danger risk to human health, regardless of whether any failure to meet the parametric values occurred, that lasted for more than 10 consecutive days and that affected at least 1 000 people, including the causes of those incidents and remedial actions taken in accordance with Article 12. [Am. 129]

AddedWhere possible, spatial data services as defined in Article 3(4) of Directive 2007/2/EC shall be used to present those data sets.

Added2. Member States shall ensure that the Commission, the European Environment Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control have access to the data sets referred to in paragraph 1.

Added3. The European Environment Agency shall publish and update a Union-wide overview on the basis of the data collected by the Member States on a regular basis or following receipt of a request from the Commission.

AddedThe Union-wide overview shall include, as appropriate, indicators for outputs, results and impacts of this Directive, Union-wide overview maps and Member State overview reports.

Added4. The Commission may is empowered to adopt implementing delegated acts in accordance with Article 19 supplementing this Directive by specifying the format of, and modalities to present, the information to be provided in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3, including detailed requirements regarding the indicators, the Union-wide overview maps and the Member State overview reports referred to in paragraph 3. [Am. 130]

AddedThe implementing acts referred to in the first subparagraph shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 20(2). [Am. 131]

AddedArticle 16

AddedAccess to justice

Added1. Member States shall ensure that, natural or legal persons or their associations, organisations or groups, in accordance with national legislation or practice, have access to a review procedure before a court of law or another independent and impartial body established by law to challenge the substantive or procedural legality of decisions, actions or omissions related to the implementation of Articles 4, 5, 12, 13, and 14, when one of the following conditions is fulfilled:

Added(a) they have a sufficient interest;

Added(b) they maintain the impairment of a right, where the administrative procedural law of the relevant Member State requires this as a precondition.

Added2. Member States shall determine at what stage decisions, acts or omissions may be challenged.

Added3. What constitutes a sufficient interest and impairment of a right shall be determined by Member States, consistently with the objective of giving the public concerned wide access to justice.

AddedTo that end, the interest of any non-governmental organisation promoting environmental protection and meeting the requirements under national law shall be deemed sufficient for the purposes of paragraph 1(a).

AddedSuch organisations shall also be deemed to have rights capable of being impaired for the purposes of paragraph 1(b).

Added4. Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 shall not exclude the possibility of a preliminary review procedure before an administrative authority and shall not affect the requirement of exhaustion of administrative review procedures prior to recourse to judicial review procedures, where such a requirement exists under national law.

Added5. Any such review procedure referred to in paragraph 1 and 4 shall be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive.

AddedMember States shall ensure that information is made available to the public on access to administrative and judicial review procedures.

AddedArticle 17

AddedEvaluation