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EC Bathing WaterDirective
Jon Worthjon@jonworth.eu
Photo © Teignbridge District Council
Background - Pillars
I
Single Market
EC
III
PJCCM
EU
II
CFSP
EU
Background - Policy Cycle
Commission drafts legislation
Legislation published
Co-decision
Legislation agreed
Implementation
Is the legislation working?
Commission analysis
Commission Expert Groups
CouncilWorking Groups
ComitologyCommittees
Types of EC LegislationDirectives
binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which they are addressed
choice of form and methods left to national authorities
Regulations
general application
binding in their entirety
directly applicable in all Member States
…either of these need a legal basis.
Committee(s) and Plenary
Simple majority
General Approach, Political Agreement
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
Co-decision: 1st Reading dealCommission publishes
draft Directive
European Parliament amends
Council accepts Parliament amendments
Directive agreed
Commission Structure
Political Groups
Council Hierarchy
Working Groups
COREPER
Council
UK Permanent
Representation to
the EU (UKRep)
Whitehall
Council Formations
General Affairs and External Relations
(GAERC)
Economic andFinancial Affairs
(ECOFIN)
Agricultureand
Fisheries
Justice and Home Affairs
(JHA)
Competitiveness (Internal Market,
Industry and Research)
Transport, Telecommunications
and Energy
Employment,Social Policy, Health
and Consumer Affairs
Environment
Education, Youth and
Culture
Council Voting Currently Qualified Majority Voting
255 of 345 votes Simple majority of MS (i.e. 14) 62% of the EU population
From 2014 / 2017 (Reform Treaty) 55% of the Member States 65% of the EU Population
Committee(s) and Plenary
Simple majority
General Approach, Political Agreement
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
Co-decision: 1st Reading dealCommission publishes
draft Directive
European Parliament amends
Council accepts Parliament amendments
Directive agreed
Committee(s) and Plenary
Simple majority
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
General Approach, Political Agreement
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
Committee(s) and Plenary
Absolute majority
Co-decision: 2nd Reading dealCommission publishes
draft Directive
European Parliament amends
Council rejects Parliament amendments
Common Position
European Parliament amends
Council accepts Parliament amendments
Directive agreed
Committee(s) and Plenary
Simple majority
27 MEPs, 27 MS, Commission
Prepared by trialogue
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
General Approach, Political Agreement
Working Groups, COREPER,
Council
QMV
Committee(s) and Plenary
Absolute majority
Co-decision: 3rd Reading dealCommission publishes
draft Directive
European Parliament amends
Council rejects Parliament amendments
Common Position
European Parliament amends
Council rejects Parliament amendments
Conciliation
3rd ReadingDirective agreed
Water Quality Existing Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC): responsible for an
increase in bathing water quality at identified bathing sites throughout Europe, achieving its primary aim of protecting public health.
Directive considered to be in need of simplification and updating to take into account lessons learnt from its implementation, developments in science and knowledge about the risks of bathing.
New draft Directive published in 2002. update the way in which water quality is measured, focusing on fewer microbiological indicators, and
setting different standards for inland and coastal bathing sites reduce the health risks linked to bathing by setting scientifically based minimum water quality standards make changes to monitoring and sampling frequency allow a limited number of water samples to be disregarded during short term pollution incidents, if the
event is predicted and the public warned beforehand provide better information to the public, allowing more informed choices to be made about the risk of
bathing improve the overall management of bathing water quality by requiring an assessment of potential
sources of pollution be compatible with other EU water related legislation
Approaching EU Institutions
DEFRAUK NGOs
EU-level
NetworksCommission
Parliament
Council
NMDs,
Agencies
Legislation Databases European Parliament OEIL
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/
Commission EUR-LEXhttp://eur-lex.europa.eu/
Commission PRE-LEXhttp://ec.europa.eu/prelex/
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