European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 134 of 2014).

These Regulations amend the European Union (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2014 so as to give effect to the Commission Implementing Decision on granting a derogation requested by Ireland pursuant to Council Directive 91/676/EEC concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. They also make technical amendments to sections 17 and 26 of the principal Regulations and insert a new Part (7) on implementation of the Commission Decision. The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine shall be the competent authority for the purposes of verifying compliance with a derogation granted under the Commission Decision and shall (arrange to) carry out, such monitoring, controls and reporting as are necessary for the purposes of Articles 7, 8 and 9 of the Commission Decision. The Environmental Protection Agency shall prepare annually a report of the results of water quality monitoring carried out by local authorities for the purposes of Article 7(3) of the Commission Decision. A new Schedule (5) is inserted. This Schedule specifies conditions applying in relation to derogations regarding the application to land of manure.