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

Monitoring

9.—(1) The Agency must—

(a) establish programmes for monitoring water status in order to establish a coherent and comprehensive overview of water status within each river basin district; and

(b) take such other action as is necessary to give effect to the relevant monitoring provisions of the Directive.

(2) The monitoring programmes must cover—

(a) in relation to surface water—

(i) the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant to ecological and chemical status and ecological potential; and

(ii) ecological and chemical status and ecological potential; and

(b) in relation to groundwater, chemical and quantitative status.

(3) The monitoring programmes must be made operational by 22nd December 2006.

(4) The relevant monitoring provisions of the Directive referred to in paragraph (1) are set out in the following provisions of Annex V to the Directive—

(a) points 1.3 to 1.3.6 (monitoring of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential for surface waters);

(b) points 1.4 to 1.4.3 (classification and presentation of ecological status, chemical status and ecological potential);

(c) points 2.2 to 2.2.4 (monitoring of groundwater quantitative status);

(d) points 2.4 to 2.4.4 (monitoring of groundwater chemical status); and

(e) points 2.4.5 and 2.5 (interpretation and presentation of groundwater status).