The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

Publication of information

31.—(1) The Department must make accessible to the public at its principal offices—

(a) the results of the analysis and review conducted in accordance with regulation 5 (characterisation of river basin district and international river basin districts);

(b) maps showing bodies of water identified in accordance with regulation 8 (bodies of water used for the abstraction of drinking water);

(c) the registers prepared in accordance with regulation 10 (register of protected areas);

(d) the results of the monitoring programmes established in accordance with regulation 11 (monitoring);

(e) the environmental objectives and programmes of measures established in accordance with regulation 12 (environmental objectives and programmes of measures); and

(f) any supplementary plan published in accordance with regulation 29 (supplementary plans).

(2) The Department must make accessible to the public through its website and at its principal offices the results of the analysis conducted in accordance with regulation 7 (economic analysis of water use in river basin district and international river basin districts).

(3) The Department must ensure that an interim report describing progress in the implementation of the planned programme of measures required to be produced in accordance with 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(1).

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OJ L41, 14.2.2003, p26