European Communities (Technical Specifications For the Chemical Analysis and Monitoring of Water Status) Regulations, 2011

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 489/2011
• Year: 2011

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 30th September, 2011.

I, PHIL HOGAN, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972) and for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Directive 2009/90/EC1 of 31 July 2009, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Technical Specifications for the Chemical Analysis and Monitoring of Water Status) Regulations, 2011.

2. These Regulations shall come into effect on 27th September 2011, save as is otherwise provided in relation to any particular provision.

Interpretation

3. (1) In these Regulations—

“the 2003 Regulations” means the European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 722 of 2003 );

“the Agency” means the Environmental Protection Agency;

“the Directive” means Commission Directive 2009/90/EC of 31 July 2009, unless otherwise specified;

“Directive 2000/60/EC” means Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 20002 ;

“limit of detection” means the output signal or concentration value above which it can be affirmed, with a stated level of confidence that a sample is different from a blank sample containing no determinand of interest;

“limit of quantification” means a stated multiple of the limit of detection at a concentration of the determinand that can reasonably be determined with an acceptable level of accuracy and precision. The limit of quantification can be calculated using an appropriate standard or sample, and may be obtained from the lowest calibration point on the calibration curve, excluding the blank;

“relevant public authorities” means the authorities and other public bodies listed in the First Schedule of the European Communities (Water Policy) Regulations, 2003 ( S.I. No. 722 of 2003 ) which have been assigned a duty of monitoring under a programme of monitoring prepared pursuant to Regulation 10 of those regulations;

“uncertainty of measurement” means a non-negative parameter characterising the dispersion of the quantity values being attributed to a measurand, based on the information used.

(2) A word or expression that is used in these Regulations and is also used in Commission Directive 2009/90/EC has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in that Directive.

Purpose and scope of the Regulations

4. These Regulations lay down technical specifications for chemical analysis and monitoring of water status in accordance...