The Bathing Water Regulations 2008

Made: 16th April 2008

Laid before Parliament: 21st April 2008

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 21st April 2008

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

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PART 1 — GENERAL PROVISIONS

Citation, commencement and extent

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Interpretation

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Identification of bathing waters

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Length of the bathing season

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General duties

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Public participation

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PART 2 — BATHING WATER PROFILES

Bathing water profiles

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PART 3 — MONITORING ETC. OF BATHING WATERS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION

Monitoring etc.

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Public information

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PART 4 — BATHING WATER ASSESSMENT AND CLASSIFICATION

Assessment

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Classification

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PART 5 — MANAGEMENT OF BATHING WATERS

Management measures at bathing waters subject to pollution incidents

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Additional management measures at “poor” bathing waters

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Public information and general provisions about short-term pollution

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Relevant procedures for short-term pollution

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PART 6 — FINAL PROVISIONS

Enforcement

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Guidance

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Amendment of the The Bathing Waters (Classification) Regulations 1991 and transitional provisions

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Revocations and other amendments

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SCHEDULE 1 — DEFINITIONS FROM THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE

• “Body of surface water” means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.

• “Coastal water” means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured[^f00018], extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.

• “Groundwater” means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil.

• “Inland water” means all standing and flowing water on the surface of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the baseline from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured.

• “Lake” means a body of standing inland surface water.

• “River” means a body of inland water flowing for the most part on the surface of the land but which may flow underground for part of its course.

• “Surface water” means inland waters, except groundwater; transitional waters and coastal waters except in respect of chemical status for which it shall also include territorial waters.

• “Transitional waters” are bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows.

SCHEDULE 2 — BATHING WATER PROFILES

Contents

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Review

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SCHEDULE 3 — MONITORING ETC.

PART 1 — INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI AND ESCHERICHIA COLI

Location of monitoring point

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Monitoring calendar

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Frequency of monitoring

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Sampling equipment

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Storage and transport of samples before analysis

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Reference methods of analysis

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General provisions in relation to rules or reference methods of analysis

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PART 2 — CYANOBACTERIA

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PART 3 — MACRO-ALGAE AND MARINE PHYTOPLANKTON

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PART 4 — WASTE

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SCHEDULE 4 — CLASSIFICATION

Standards

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Methodology

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Classification

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Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Phil Woolas — Minister of State, — 2008-04-03

Jane Davidson — Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, one of the Welsh Ministers — 2008-04-16

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2003/2901. By virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), functions conferred on the National Assembly for Wales are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: The power of the Secretary of State to make regulations in relation to matters as regards Scotland is preserved by section57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

[^f00004]: OJ No L64, 4.3.2006, p.37.

[^f00005]: 2006 c. 32.

[^f00006]: OJ No L327, 22.12.2000, p. 1, as amended.

[^f00007]: The list is also available on the Department’s website: www.defra.gov.uk

[^f00008]: The list is also available from the Welsh Assembly Government’s website at www.wales.gov.uk.

[^f00009]: 1991 c. 57.

[^f00010]: S.I. 2003/3242.

[^f00011]: S.I. 2004/99.

[^f00012]: 1995 c. 25.

[^f00013]: S.I. 1991/1597. Those Regulations will be revoked by regulation 19 when that regulation comes into force.

[^f00015]: Copies are available from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Water Quality Division, Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL.

[^f00016]: OJ No L31, 5.2.1976, p 1, as amended.

[^f00017]: S.I. 2003/1238.

[^f00018]: The relevant baseline, for the purposes of this definition and the definition of “inland water”, is that from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured and is established by section 1 of the Territorial Sea Act 1987 (c. 49) and the Territorial Waters Order in Council (1965 III, p. 6452A).

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Editorial notes

[^key-73399253892d4f81655866d7ad9b765a]: Regulations revoked (31.7.2013) by The Bathing Water Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/1675), regs. 1(2)(d)(i), 19(1)

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