http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/229/article/1Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 of 12 February 2018 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise and repealing Commission Decision 2013/480/EU (notified under document C(2018) 696) (Text with EEA relevance)Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 of 12 February 2018 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise and repealing Commission Decision 2013/480/EU (notified under document C(2018) 696) (Text with EEA relevance)King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32018D0229texttext/xmlen2024-07-18Expert Participation2020-12-31 Article 11For the purposes of Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC, the relevant person must use in its monitoring systems classification the values of the boundaries between classes that are set out in Part 1 of the Annex to this Decision.2Where a comparability assessment for a biological quality element has not been completed within a Geographical Intercalibration Group, the relevant person must, for the purpose of Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC, use in its monitoring systems classification the methods and the values of the boundaries between classes that are set out in Part 2 of the Annex to this Decision.3 The relevant person may use the methods and the values of the boundaries between classes set out in the Annex to this Decision to establish the good ecological potential of water bodies designated as artificial or heavily modified water bodies in accordance with Article 4(3) of Directive 2000/60/EC.4.In this Article—a“relevant person” means—iin relation to England and the Northumbria River Basin District, the Environment Agency (“the EA”) (subject to points (iii) and (v));iiin relation to Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales (“NRW”) (subject to point (iii));iiiin relation to a river basin district which is partly in England and partly in Wales, the EA and NRW acting jointly;ivin relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers (subject to point (v));vin relation to the Solway Tweed River Basin District, the EA and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency acting jointly;viin relation to Northern Ireland, the Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;breferences to Article 4(3) of, and Section 1.4.1(iii) of Annex 5 to, Directive 2000/60/EC are to be read as if any requirements imposed or discretion conferred by those provisions on a member State were imposed or conferred on the relevant person.Art. 1(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(d); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)Words in Art. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)Words in Art. 1(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)Words in Art. 1(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)Words in Art. 1(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Floods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/558), regs. 1(1), 25(2)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)