Commission Directive 2014/101/EU amending Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.

This Directive lays down some amendments to Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC in order to ensure the quality and comparability of the methods used for the monitoring of type parameters generated under Member States responsibility to perform water ecological monitoring. The amendments concern in particular standards for monitoring of quality elements, standards for sampling of biological quality elements, standards for phytoplankton, standards for macrophyte and phytobenthos, standards for benthic invertebrate and standards for physico-chemical parameters.

2014-10-30