Implementing the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003: assessing Scotland's water environment - use of environmental standards, condition limits and classification schemes. Policy statement

Publication Year

2014

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Sets out how SEPA should use the Scotland River Basin District and Solway Tweed River Basin District Status Directions 2014 and Standards Directions 2014. Aims to provide information on the principles underpinning the environmental standards and condition limits, and outline the Scottish Government’s policy on how these are expected to be used by SEPA and other regulators to protect, and where necessary to improve, the Scottish water environment; and to describe Scotland's approach to classifying the status of the water environment, using these environmental standards.

Document History

Supersedes 2010 version. Related to the following: Environmental Protection - the Scotland River Basin District (Standards) Amendment Directions 2015; Environmental Protection - the Solway Tweed River Basin District (Standards) (Scotland) Amendment (No.2) Directions 2015 (both Scottish Government, 2015); Environmental Protection - the Scotland River Basin District (Status) Directions 2014; Environmental Protection - the Solway Tweed River Basin District (Status) (Scotland) Directions 2014 (both Scottish Government, 2014); and Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 - the Scotland River Basin District (Preparation, Submission and Revision of River Basin Management Plan) Directions 2007 (Scottish Government, 2007).

ISBN

9781784127770

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