Commission Directive 2014/101/EU

law://eu/dir/2014/101@2026-11-13

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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy^note, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 20(1) thereof,Whereas:

(1)The quality and comparability of the methods used for the monitoring of type parameters generated under Member States responsibility to perform water ecological monitoring pursuant to Article 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC should be ensured.

(2)Section 1.3.6 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC requires that methods used for the monitoring of type parameters conform to the international standards listed therein or such other national or international standards which will ensure the provision of data of an equivalent scientific quality and comparability. The international standards listed in Annex V were those available at the time of adoption of that Directive.

(3)Since the publication of Directive 2000/60/EC, a number of new standards have been published by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), some of them jointly with the International Standards Organisation, addressing biological sampling of phytoplankton, macrophytes and phytobenthos, benthic invertebrates, fish and hydromorphological characteristics. Those standards should be added to Section 1.3.6 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC.

(4)As a result of the continued process of development of new standards and update of existing ones, some of the standards listed in Section 1.3.6 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC are no longer published by CEN Member Bodies and should therefore be removed.

(5)Two standards (EN ISO 8689-1:1999 and EN ISO 8689-2:1999 9) listed in Section 1.3.6 of Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC addressed biological classification and not monitoring; they have been taken into account subsequently when developing protocols for setting class boundaries under the Common Implementation Strategy related to the Directive and can now be removed.

(6)Directive 2000/60/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)The measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee established by Article 21(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:

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Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.

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1.Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 20 May 2016 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.

2.Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

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This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

In Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC, Section 1.3.6 is replaced by the following:

‘1.3.6.Standards for monitoring of quality elementsMethods used for the monitoring of type parameters shall conform to the international standards listed below in so far as they cover monitoring, or to such other national or international standards which will ensure the provision of data of an equivalent scientific quality and comparability.Standards for sampling of biological quality elementsGeneric methods for use with the specific methods given in the standards relating to the following biological quality elements:EN ISO 5667-3:2012 | Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Preservation and handling of samplesStandards for phytoplanktonEN 15204:2006 | Water quality — Guidance standard on the enumeration of phytoplankton using inverted microscopy (Utermöhl technique)EN 15972:2011 | Water quality — Guidance on quantitative and qualitative investigations of marine phytoplanktonISO 10260:1992 | Water quality — Measurement of biochemical parameters —Spectrometric determination of the chlorophyll-a concentrationStandards for macrophyte and phytobenthosEN 15460:2007 | Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying of macrophytes in lakesEN 14184:2014 | Water quality — Guidance for the surveying of aquatic macrophytes in running watersEN 15708:2009 | Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying, sampling and laboratory analysis of phytobenthos in shallow running waterEN 13946:2014 | Water quality — Guidance for the routine sampling and preparation of benthic diatoms from rivers and lakesEN 14407:2014 | Water quality — Guidance for the identification and enumeration of benthic diatom samples from rivers and lakesStandards for benthic invertebrateEN ISO 10870:2012 | Water quality — Guidelines for the selection of sampling methods and devices for benthic macroinvertebrates in fresh watersEN 15196:2006 | Water quality — Guidance on sampling and processing of the pupal exuviae of Chironomidae (order Diptera) for ecological assessmentEN 16150:2012 | Water quality — Guidance on pro rata multi-habitat sampling of benthic macro-invertebrates from wadeable riversEN ISO 19493:2007 | Water quality — Guidance on marine biological surveys of hard-substrate communitiesEN ISO 16665:2013 | Water quality — Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macro-faunaStandards for fishEN 14962:2006 | Water quality — Guidance on the scope and selection of fish sampling methodsEN 14011:2003 | Water quality — Sampling of fish with electricityEN 15910:2014 | Water quality — Guidance on the estimation of fish abundance with mobile hydroacoustic methodsEN 14757:2005 | Water quality — Sampling of fish with multi-mesh gillnetsStandards for hydromorphological parametersEN 14614:2004 | Water quality — Guidance standard for assessing the hydromorphological features of riversEN 16039:2011 | Water quality — Guidance standard on assessing the hydromorphological features of lakesStandards for physico-chemical parametersAny relevant CEN/ISO standards’.

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