Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 29th March, 2011.

I, PHIL HOGAN, Minister for the Environment, Heritage 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 Directive 75/442/EEC of 15 July 1975¹ , Directive 80/68/EEC of 17 December 1979² , Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991³ , Directive 2000/60/EC of 23 October 2000⁴ , Directive 2003/35/EC of 26 May 2003⁵ , Directive 2006/11/EC of 15 February 2006⁶ , Directive 2006/12/EC of 5 April 2006⁷ , Directive 2006/118/EC of 12 December 2006⁸ and Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008⁹ hereby make the following Regulations:

Interpretation

1. In these Regulations-

"the 2010 Regulations" means the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 610 of 2010 ).

Amendment of Article 17 of the 2010 Regulations

2. Article 17 of the 2010 Regulations is hereby amended as follows-

(a) by the deletion of the words "referred to in sub-article (3)(a)" in sub-article (5),

(b) by the insertion of "(5)," after "sub-articles (3)" in sub-article (8) and

(c) by the insertion of "(5)," after "sub-articles (3)" in sub-article (10).

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

23 March 2011.

PHILIP HOGAN,

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

These Regulations amend Article 17 of the European Communities (Good Agricultural Practice for Protection of Waters) Regulations 2010 ( S.I. No. 610 of 2010 ).

The purpose of this amendment is to allow a local authority to apply a landspreading restriction to the upstream catchment area and to the close proximity downstream of an abstraction point in the case of any surface waters.

1 O.J. No. L 194/39, 25 July 1975.

2 O.J. No. L 20/43, 26 January 1980.

3 O.J. No. L 375/1, 31 December 1991.

4 O.J. No. L 327/1, 22 December 2000.

5 O.J. No. L 156/17, 25 June 2003.

6 O.J. No. L 64/52, 4 March 2006

7 O.J. No. L 114/9, 27 April 2006.

8 O.J. No. L 372/19, 27 December 2006.

9 O.J. No. L 312/3, 22 November 2008.