European Union Environmental Objectives (Standards for Monitoring of Quality Elements) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 277 of 2016).

These Regulations require the Environmental Protection Agency, and any other person or body as appropriate, in undertaking the monitoring requirements of the Water Framework Directive as laid out in the European Communities Environmental Objectives (Surface Waters) Regulations, as amended, to employ the standards for monitoring of quality elements listed in Schedule 1. Methods used for the monitoring of type parameters shall conform to the international standards listed in Schedule 1 in so far as they cover monitoring, or to such other national or international standards as will ensure the provision of data of an equivalent scientific quality and comparability. In doing so they give effect to Directive 2014/101/EU, which amends Annex V of the Water Framework Directive.