Groundwater Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Information to be included in a river basin management plan

11.—(1) The Department shall ensure each river basin management plan and each revised river basin management plan it prepares under the provision specified in sub-paragraph (2) includes, in relation to the river basin district—

(a) details of approved threshold values together with the information specified in Part C of Annex II to the Directive;

(b) in the case of a revised river basin management plan, details of any applicable changes to the list of threshold values since the date of publication of the previous version of the plan;

(c) a summary of each assessment undertaken for the purposes of determining groundwater chemical status, including an explanation as to the manner in which exceedences of groundwater quality standards or threshold values at individual monitoring points have been taken into account;

(d) a summary of the information specified in Article 5(4)(a) of the Directive;

(e) details of each starting point for trend reversal determined under regulation 10(1)(b) or, as the case may be, regulation 10(7), together with a summary of the reasons for each determination; and

(f) a summary of the results of any additional trend assessments carried out under regulation 10(5).

(2) The provision specified in this sub-paragraph is regulation 12(1) and (2) of the Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.