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

Publication of information U.K.

18.—(1) The [F1 appropriate agency] must make accessible to the public at its principal office [F2 or (as the case may be) their principal offices] —

(a) the results of the work required by regulation 5 (characterisation of river basin districts);

(b) maps showing bodies of water identified under regulation 7 (bodies of water used for the abstraction of drinking water);

(c) the registers prepared under regulation 8 (register of protected areas);

(d) the results of the programmes established under regulation 9 (monitoring);

(e) the environmental objectives and programmes of measures proposed or approved under regulation 10 (environmental objectives and programmes of measures); and

(f) any supplementary plan prepared under regulation 16 (supplementary plans).

(2) Where the appropriate authority approves (with or without modifications) proposals made by the [F1 appropriate agency] under regulation 10(1), the [F1 appropriate agency] must publish a notice—

(a) stating that the proposals have been approved; and

(b) specifying the arrangements made for making the approved objectives and programme of measures accessible to the public.

(3) The appropriate authority must make accessible to the public through its website and at its principal office the results of the analysis conducted under regulation 6 (economic analysis of water use in river basin districts).

[F3 (4) The appropriate authority must ensure that an interim report describing progress in the implementation of the planned programme of measures required to be produced under Article 15(3) of the Directive is made available via a central portal which is accessible to the public electronically in accordance with Article 7(1) of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on public access to environmental information.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 18 substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 185(2) (with Sch. 7)

F2 Words in reg. 18(1) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 185(3) (with Sch. 7)

F3 Reg. 18(4) inserted (14.9.2015) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1623), regs. 1, 9

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Regs. 16-20 applied (2.1.2004) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria River Basin District) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/3245), regs. 1(1), 5(1) (as amended (3.3.2016) by The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (Northumbria and Solway Tweed River Basin Districts) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/139), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 4)