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Water Environment (Floods Directive) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009 (S.R. No. 376 of 2009).

Country/Territory
United Kingdom
Territorial subdivision
Northern Ireland
Document type
Regulation
Date
2009
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Water
Keyword
Inland waters Policy/planning Flood Institution Monitoring Transboundary effects Basin/catchment/watershed Access-to-information
Geographical area
Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Atlantic, North Sea, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe
Abstract

These Regulations implement in Northern Ireland Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks. The Regulations require each department, district council, water undertaker or sewerage undertaker and certain other public bodies to exercise their relevant statutory functions in compliance with the Directive and requires the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (which is the competent authority in Northern Ireland for the implementation of the Directive) to ensure that the implementation of the requirements of the Directive is coordinated. The Department shall, among other things: prepare a preliminary flood risk assessment for specified (transboundary) river basins; identify areas for which potential significant flood risks exist or might be considered likely to occur; prepare flood hazard maps and flood risk maps for such areas a flood risk management plan; and a flood risk management plan for each river basin district or a set of such plans coordinated at the level of a district. The Regulations also concern publication, review of plans and maps and public participation.

Full text
English
Website
www.opsi.gov.uk

References - Legislation

Implements

Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and management of flood risks.

Legislation | European Union | 2007

Keyword: Flood, Hazards, Coastal zone management, Access-to-information, Policy/planning, Cultural heritage, Basin/catchment/watershed, Inland waters

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Amended by

Water and Floods (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.R. No. 32 of 2019).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2019

Keyword: Flood, Water supply, Sewerage

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Water Environment (Floods Directive) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. No. 196 of 2018).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2018

Keyword: Inland waters, Flood

Source: FAO, FAOLEX

Water Environment (Floods Directive) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. No. 137 of 2018).

Legislation | United Kingdom | 2018

Keyword: Inland waters, Flood

Source: FAO, FAOLEX