EU directives relating to water quality
Last updated: 8 September 2009
To view these directives relating to water quality please visit the EC website legislation search page
.Legislation includes:
- Bathing Water 76/160/EEC
- Biodegradability of Anionic Surfactants 73/405/EEC
- Birds Directive 79/409/EEC
- Cadmium 83/513/EEC
- Carbon Tetrachloride, DDT, PCP 86/280/EEC
- Chloroform, Drins, HCB 88/347/EEC
- Dangerous Substances 76/464/EEC
- Disposal of PCBs and PCTs 76/403/EEC
- Disposal of waste oils 75/439/EEC
- Environmental Impacts of Public and Private Projects 85/337/EEC
- Freshwater Fish Directive 78/659/EEC
- Groundwater 80/68/EEC
- Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC
- Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) 84/491/EEC
- Mercury 84/156/EEC
- Mercury from Chlor-alkali 82/176/EEC
- Nitrates Directive 91/676/EEC
- Quality of Water for Human Consumption 81/778/EEC
- Sewage sludge in agriculture 86/278/EEC
- Shellfish Hygiene 91/492/EEC
- Shellfish Water 76/923/EEC
- Surface Water 75/440/EEC
- Surface Water (Frequency of Sampling) 79/869/EEC
- Toxic and Dangerous Waste 78/319/EEC
- Urban Waste Water Treatment 91/271/EEC
- Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC