The Water Environment (River Basin Management Planning: Further Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2013

Content of monitoring programme

12.—(1) Each monitoring programme prepared under section 8(2) (monitoring programme) of the Act must—

(a) enable a coherent and comprehensive overview of the status of the water environment within each river basin district;

(b) for surface water—

(i) cover the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant to ecological status (or, where relevant, ecological potential) and chemical status;

(ii) cover the ecological status (or, in the case of an artificial or heavily modified body of water, ecological potential) and chemical status; and

(iii) enable the classification of each body of surface water in accordance with Annex V to the Directive;

(c) for groundwater—

(i) cover monitoring of the chemical and quantitative status;

(ii) enable a reliable assessment of the groundwater status, including assessment of the available groundwater resource; and

(iii) enable the detection of any long-term anthropogenically induced upward trend in the concentration of any pollutant; and

(d) for protected areas (within the meaning of section 7(3) (protected areas) of the Act)—

(i) cover any supplementary monitoring required by the legislation under which the area is protected; and

(ii) provide for the monitoring of any body of water identified under section 6(1) of the Act which provides more than 100 m³ per day of drinking water intended for human consumption.

(2) SEPA must ensure that monitoring for purposes of any programme prepared under section 8(2) of the Act is carried out in accordance with Annex V to the Water Framework Directive.