4 Amendments of Karl-Heinz FLORENZ related to 2006/0129(COD)
Amendment 55 #
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may designate mixing zonesensure that transitional areas of exceedance are established adjacent to points of discharge. Concentrations of one or more pollutants within such mixing zones may exceed the relevant EQSsubstances that are listed in Annex X of Directive 2000/60/EC may exceed the relevant EQS within such transitional areas of exceedance, if they do not affect the compliance of the rest of the body of surface water with those standards.
Amendment 61 #
Article 4 a (new)
Article 4a Where the EQS for one or more substances listed in Annex X to Directive 2000/60/EC are exceeded in a river basin or where concentrations show an unfavourable trend, Member States shall establish plans for the control of discharges for those substances. The plans shall be drawn up according to transparent criteria and revised in the framework of the revision of the programmes of measures. Member States shall report to the Commission and to the public every three years on the progress of the implementation and on how the measures have contributed to achieving the objectives of this Directive.
Amendment 69 #
Annex I – Part B – paragraph 3 –subparagraph 1
3. With the exception of cadmium, lead, mercury and nickel (hereinafter "metals"), nickel and substances with similar sediment absorption properties, the EQS set up in this Annex are expressed as total concentrations in the whole water sample. In the case of metalthose substances the EQS refers to the dissolved concentration, i.e. the dissolved phase of a water sample obtained by filtration through a 0.45 µm filter or any equivalent pre-treatment.
Amendment 70 #
Annex II – introductory paragraph -1
By 31 December 2010 at the latest, and every four years thereafter, the Commission shall draw up an evaluation report for the European Parliament and for the Council on the progress made in the review process defined in Article 16 of Directive 2000/60/EC and, where necessary, take appropriate measures to ensure an adequate rate of substance evaluation.