European Communities Environmental Objectives (Groundwater) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 366 of 2016).

These Regulations amend the European Communities Environmental Objectives (Groundwater) Regulations 2010 to make further provision to implement Commission Directive 2014/80/EU of amending Annex II to Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration. They, among other things: review and, if necessary, amend, based on existing monitoring information and international guidelines, the substances and threshold values set out in Schedule 5; include changes to the rules governing the determination of background levels for the purposes of establishing threshold values for groundwater pollutants and indicators of pollution (Part A of Schedule 6); include nitrites and phosphorus (total) / phosphates among the minimum list of pollutants and their indicators which the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must consider when establishing threshold values (Part A of Schedule 6); amend the information to be provided to the Minister by the EPA with regard to the pollutants and their indicators for which threshold values have been established (Part C of Schedule 6).