Changes from adopted text to adopted text

Added‘General physico-chemical quality elements

Added(4) in point 1.2.3, the table ‘Physio-chemical quality elements’ is replaced by the following:

Added‘General physico-chemical quality elements

Added(5) in point 1.2.4, the table ‘Physio-chemical quality elements’ is replaced by the following:

Added‘General physico-chemical quality elements

Added(6) in point 1.2.5, the table is amended as follows:

Added(a) the fifth row for the entry ‘Specific synthetic pollutants’ is deleted;

Added(b) the sixth row for the entry ‘Specific non-synthetic pollutants’ is deleted;

Added(c) the seventh row for table note (1) is deleted;

Added(7) point 1.2.6 is deleted;

Added(8) in point 1.3, the following fourth and fifth paragraphs are added:

Added‘Where the monitoring network involves earth observation and remote sensing rather than local sampling points, or other innovative techniques, the map of the monitoring network shall include information on the quality elements and the water bodies or groups of water bodies which have been monitored using such monitoring methods. Reference shall be made to CEN, ISO, or other international or national standards that have been applied to ensure that the temporal and spatial data obtained are as reliable as those obtained through the use of conventional monitoring methods at local sampling points.

AddedMember States may apply passive sampling methods to monitor chemical pollutants, where appropriate, in particular for screening purposes, on the condition that those sampling methods do not underestimate the concentrations of pollutants for which environmental quality standards apply, and thus reliably identify “failure to achieve good status”, and that chemical analysis of water, biota or sediment samples, according to the environmental quality standards applied, is conducted wherever such failure is observed. Member States may also apply effect-based sampling methods subject to the same conditions.;’

Added(9) in point 1.3.1., the last paragraph, ’Selection of quality elements’, is replaced by the following:

Added‘Selection of quality elements

AddedSurveillance monitoring shall be carried out for each monitoring site for a period of one year during the period covered by a river basin management plan. The surveillance monitoring shall coverthe following:

Added(a) parameters indicative of all biological quality elements;

Added(b) parameters indicative of all hydromorphological quality elements;

Added(c) parameters indicative of all general physico-chemical quality elements;

Added(d) priority list pollutants which are discharged or otherwise deposited into the river basin or sub-basin;

Added(e) other pollutants discharged or otherwise deposited in significant quantities in the river basin or sub-basin.

AddedHowever, where the previous surveillance monitoring exercise showed that the body concerned reached good status and there is no evidence from the review of impact of human activity referred to in Annex II that the impacts on the body have changed, the surveillance monitoring shall be carried out once during the period covered by three consecutive river basin management plans.;’

Added(10) point 1.3.2. is amended as follows:

Added‘(a) in the third paragraph, ’Selection of monitoring sites’, the first sentence is replaced by the following:

Added‘Operational monitoring shall be carried out for all those bodies of water which on the basis of either the impact assessment carried out in accordance with Annex II or surveillance monitoring are identified as being at risk of failing to meet their environmental objectives under Article 4 and for those bodies of water into which priority list substances are discharged or otherwise deposited or into which river basin specific pollutants are discharged or otherwise deposited in significant quantities.;

Added(b) in the fourth paragraph, ’Selection of quality elements’, the second indent is replaced by the following:

Added‘– all priority substances discharged or otherwise deposited into water bodies and all river basin specific pollutants discharged or otherwise deposited into water bodies in significant quantities.;’

Added10a. In point 1.3.4, paragraph 4 is amended as follows:

Added‘Monitoring frequencies shall be selected, and increased if necessary, to take account of the variability in parameters resulting from both natural and anthropogenic conditions. Furthermore, the times at which monitoring is undertaken shall be selected so as to take account of the impact on the status assessment of seasonal fluctuations in substance use and of variation in water levels and thus ensure that the results reflect changes in the water body caused by anthropogenic pressure and by climatic variation. As regards priority substances that are sensitive to climatic variations and priority substances whose concentration is likely to peak over short periods as a result of seasonal fluctuations in the use of these substances, the monitoring shall be carried out more frequently than for other substances.’ [Am. 139]

Added(11) in point 1.3.4, the table, the sixth row under the heading ‘Physico-chemical’, the words ’Other pollutants’ are replaced by ‘River basin specific pollutants’;

Added(12) point 1.4.1 is amended as follows:

Added(a) in point (vii), the second sentence is deleted.;

Added(b) point (viii) is deleted;

Added(c) point (ix) is replaced by the following:

Added‘(ix) The results of the intercalibration exercise and the values established for the Member State monitoring system classifications in accordance with points (i) to (viii) shall be published within six months of the adoption of the delegated act in accordance with Article 20.;’

Added(13) in point 1.4.2, point (iii) is deleted;

Added(14) in point 1.4.3, the first paragraph, the first sentence is replaced by the following:

Added‘A body of water shall be recorded as achieving good chemical status where it is compliant with all the environmental quality standards set out in Part A of Annex I to Directive 2008/105/EC and the environmental quality standards established pursuant to Articles 8 and 8d of that Directive.;’

Added(15) in point 2.2.1., the following paragraph is added:

Added‘Where the monitoring network involves earth observation methods or remote sensing rather than local sampling points, or other innovative techniques, reference shall be made to CEN, ISO, or other international or national standards that have been applied to ensure that the temporal and spatial data obtained are as reliable as those obtained through the use of conventional monitoring methods at local sampling points.;’

Added(16) point 2.3.2. is replaced by the following:

Added‘2.3.2. Definition of good groundwater chemical status

Added(17) in point 2.4.1., the following paragraph is added:

Added‘Where the monitoring network involves earth observation or remote sensing rather than local sampling points, or other innovative techniques, reference shall be made to CEN, ISO, or other international or national standards that have been applied to ensure that the temporal and spatial data obtained are as reliable as those obtained through the use of conventional monitoring methods at local sampling points.;’

Added(18) point 2.4.5. is replaced by the following:

Added‘2.4.5. Interpretation and presentation of groundwater chemical status

AddedIn assessing the chemical status of groundwater, the results of individual monitoring points within a groundwater body shall be aggregated for the body as a whole. The mean value of the results of monitoring at each point in the groundwater body or group of bodies shall be calculated for the following parameters:

Added(a) chemical parameters for which quality standards have been set in Annex I to Directive 2006/118/EC;

Added(b) chemical parameters for which national thresholds have been set pursuant to Article 3(1), point (b), of Directive 2006/118/EC;

Added(c) chemical parameters for which Union wide thresholds have been set pursuant to Article 8(3) of Directive 2006/118/EC.

AddedThe mean values referred to in the first paragraph shall be used to demonstrate compliance with good groundwater chemical status defined by reference to the quality standards and threshold values referred to in the first paragraph.

AddedSubject to point 2.5, Member States shall provide a map of groundwater chemical status, colour-coded as follows:

AddedGood: green

AddedPoor: red

AddedMember States shall also indicate by a black dot on the map, those groundwater bodies which are subject to a significant and sustained upward trendtrends, including seasonal upward trends caused, inter alia, by a low discharge of a water body, in the concentrations of any pollutant resulting from the impact of human activity. Reversal of a trend shall be indicated by a blue dot on the map. [Am. 140]

AddedThese maps shall be included in the river basin management plans..’

AddedAnnex II

AddedAnnex VIII of Directive 2000/60/EC is amended as follows:

Added(1) point 10 is replaced by the following:

Added‘10. Materials in suspension, including micro/nanoplastics., as well as materials known to give rise to micro- or nanoplastics;’ [Am. 141]