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COMMON IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FOR THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (2000/60/EC). Guidance Document No. 32 ON BIOTA MONITORING (THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EQSBIOTA) UNDER THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE
24 auth. K. Deutsch, D. Leroy, C. Belpaire, K. D. Haan, B. Vrana, H. Clayton, G. Hanke, M. Ricci, A. Held, B. Gawlik, ...
This Technical Guidance Document on Biota Monitoring (the Implementation of EQSbiota)
aims to facilitate the implementation of environmental quality standards (EQS) in biota
under the Water Framework Directive by addressing in particular the sampl…
This Technical Guidance Document on Biota Monitoring (the Implementation of EQSbiota)
aims to facilitate the implementation of environmental quality standards (EQS) in biota
under the Water Framework Directive by addressing in particular the sampling strategies
appropriate for monitoring programmes designed to assess compliance with biota EQS. It is
Guidance Document No. 32 in the series of guidance documents prepared to support the
Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) for the Water Framework Directive.
It elaborates extensively on the content of Guidance Document No. 25 on Chemical
Monitoring in Sediment and Biota under the Water Framework Directive, and is
complemented by Guidance Document No. 33, the Technical Guidance Document on
Analytical Methods for Biota Monitoring. Guidance Documents 32 and 33 together address
the requirement for guidance on biota monitoring mentioned in Article 3(8a) of Directive
2008/105/EC as amended by Directive 2013/39/EU.
The original Directive 2008/105/EC included biota standards for mercury,
hexachlorobenzene and hexachlorobutadiene. In Directive 2013/39/EU, biota EQS were
introduced for three other existing priority substances (fluoranthene, polyaromatic
hydrocarbons and brominated diphenylethers), and set for four new priority substances
(dicofol, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid and its derivatives, hexabromocyclododecane, and
heptachlor/heptachlor epoxide). This guidance document takes into account the fact that
trend monitoring in sediment and/or biota is required for several other priority substances as
specified in Article 3(6), and indicates how trend monitoring data can be used to check
compliance with biota EQS, but does not elaborate on trend monitoring as such.
This document constitutes guidance and Member States are therefore not legally required to
follow the recommendations contained in it. Member States are, however, required to use
methods compliant with the requirements of the Environmental Quality Standards Directive
2008/105/EC and the Quality Assurance/Quality Control Directive 2009/90/EC.
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