Regulation (EC) No 596/2009 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilDangos y teitl llawn

2.2. Council Directive 98/83/EC of 3 November 1998 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (1) U.K.

As regards Directive 98/83/EC, the Commission should be empowered in particular to adapt Annexes II and III to scientific and technical progress and to set out certain details on monitoring in Annex II. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of Directive 98/83/EC, inter alia, by supplementing it with new non-essential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.

Accordingly, Directive 98/83/EC is hereby amended as follows:

1.

Article 7(4) shall be replaced by the following:

‘4. Community guidelines for the monitoring prescribed in this Article may be drawn up in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 12(2).’;

2.

Article 11(2) shall be replaced by the following:

‘2. At least every five years, the Commission shall amend Annexes II and III to make the necessary adaptations to scientific and technical progress.

Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).’;

3.

Article 12(3) shall be replaced by the following:

‘3. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5a(1) to (4) and Article 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.’;

4.

Article 13 shall be amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 4 shall be replaced by the following:

‘4. The formats and the minimum information for the reports provided for in paragraph 2 shall be determined having special regard to the measures referred to in Article 3(2), Article 5(2) and (3), Article 7(2), Article 8, Article 9(6) and (7) and Article 15(1), and shall if necessary be amended in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 12(2).’;

(b)

paragraph 6 shall be replaced by the following:

‘6. Together with the first report on this Directive as mentioned in paragraph 2, Member States shall also produce a report to be forwarded to the Commission on the measures they have taken or plan to take to fulfil their obligations pursuant to Article 6(3) and Annex I, Part B, note 10. As appropriate, a proposal on the format of this report shall be submitted in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 12(2).’;

5.

Article 15(3) shall be replaced by the following:

‘3. That request shall be examined in accordance with the management procedure referred to in Article 12(2).’;

6.

in Annex I, Part C, point 1 of note 10 shall be replaced by the following:

‘1. The Commission shall adopt the measures required under Note 8 on monitoring frequencies, and Note 9 on monitoring frequencies, monitoring methods and the most relevant locations for monitoring points in Annex II. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).

When elaborating those measures the Commission shall take into account, inter alia, the relevant provisions under existing legislation or appropriate monitoring programmes including monitoring results as derived from them.’;

7.

in Annex II, table A, point 2 shall be replaced by the following:

‘2. Audit monitoring

The purpose of audit monitoring is to provide the information necessary to determine whether or not all of the Directive’s parametric values are being complied with. All parameters set in accordance with Article 5(2) and (3) must be subject to audit monitoring unless it can be established by the competent authorities, for a period of time to be determined by them, that a parameter is not likely to be present in a given supply in concentrations which could lead to the risk of a breach of the relevant parametric value. This point does not apply to the parameters for radioactivity, which, subject to Notes 8, 9 and 10 in Annex I, Part C, will be monitored in accordance with monitoring requirements adopted by the Commission. Those measures, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).’;

8.

in Annex III, point 1, the first subparagraph shall be replaced by the following:

‘The following principles for methods of microbiological parameters are given either for reference, whenever a CEN/ISO method is given, or for guidance, pending the possible future adoption by the Commission of further CEN/ISO international methods for those parameters. Member States may use alternative methods, providing the provisions of Article 7(5) are met.

Those measures on further CEN/ISO international methods, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive, inter alia, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 12(3).’.

(1)

OJ L 330, 5.12.1998, p. 32.