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Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 3242

WATER RESOURCES, ENGLAND AND WALES

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

Made

10th December 2003

Laid before Parliament

11th December 2003

Coming into force

2nd January 2004

The Secretary of State and the National Assembly for Wales, acting respectively in relation to river basin districts that are wholly in England and river basin districts that are wholly in Wales(1), and jointly in relation to river basin districts that are partly in England and partly in Wales, being designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(3) in relation to matters relating to water resources, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by that section, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

The terms “river basin district”, “England” and “Wales” have the same meaning for this purpose as in the Regulations, and are defined in regulation 2(1).

(2)

S.I. 2003/2901.