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Daughter Directives under WFD
Further legislative work under WFD includes:
- Priority Substances Daughter Directive (proposal being drafted)
- Groundwater Daughter Directive (in draft form)
- Priority Substances Daughter Directive (proposal being drafted)
Under Article 16 of the WFD, The commission is required to establish and periodically review a list of priority substances (Annex X of the WFD) in the field of water policy, and propose Community-wide EQSs and control measures for those substances.
The first list of 33 priority substances, or groups of substances including point and diffuse discharges of dangerous substances was adopted in November 2001 (Decision No 2455/2001/EC).
The Commission is currently developing proposals for:
- for quality standards for the priority substances on the first list; and
- defining measures that must be adopted at Community level against pollution of water including:
- the progressive reduction and, for priority hazardous substances, as defined in the second sentence of point 30 of Article 2 of Directive 2000/60/EC, at the cessation or phasing out of discharges, emissions and losses within 20 years after their adoption at Community level.
- For substances occurring naturally, or produced through natural processes, such as cadmium, mercury and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), measures should aim at the cessation of emissions, discharges and losses into water of those priority hazardous substances which derive from human activities.
Member States and other stakeholders are able to contribute to this process through the Commission’s Expert Advisory Forum on Priority Substances, on which the UK is represented by DEFRA.
2. Groundwater Daughter Directive (in draft form)
The Commission has prepared a proposal for a groundwater daughter directive under Article 17 of the Water Framework Directive. This proposal is now is being considered by the European Parliament and the European Council.
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