http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/389/contents/made

The Surface Waters (Dangerous Substances) (Classification) Regulations 1998

Water resources

Hazardous substances

Territorial waters

Water quality

Water pollution

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2011-07-04

WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES

These Regulations prescribe a system for classifying the quality of inland freshwaters, coastal waters and relevant territorial waters with a view to reducing the pollution of those waters by the dangerous substances listed in the Schedules to the Regulations (regulations 2 and 3 and Schedules 1 and 2). Those substances are substances within List II of Council Directive 76/464/EEC (which deals with pollution caused by certain dangerous substances discharged into the aquatic environment), and the regulations are made in order to establish water quality objectives for those substances for the purposes of Article 7 of the Directive (pollution reduction programmes).