What changed between the draft committee report of 20 Feb 2023 and the draft committee report of 9 Mar 2026

Removed:A clear deadline should be set in order to identify suitable monitoring methodologies for micro-plastics and antimicrobial resistance genes found in surface water and start monitor and control those substances under the watch lists as soon as possible.

Removed:Directive 2008/105/EC

Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 7 a (new), Article 8b a (new): (7a) The following Article 8ba is inserted : / ‘Article 8ba / Extended producer responsibility / 1. Member States shall take measures to ensure that producers that place on the market products containing any of the substances or compounds listed in Annex I to Directive 2008/105/EC, as well as substances of emerging concern included in the watch list under that Directive have extended producer responsibility. / Such measures shall ensure that those producers contribute to the costs for monitoring programmes designed under Article 8 of Directive 2000/60/EC. / 2. Member States shall ensure that producers referred to in paragraph 1 fulfil their extended producer responsibility collectively by becoming a member of a producer responsibility organisation. / Member States shall ensure that: / (a) the producers referred to in paragraph 1 are required to provide, once every year, the producer responsibility organisations with the following information: / (i) the annual quantities of the products containing any of the substances or compounds listed in Annex I to Directive 2008/105/EC, as well as substances of emerging concern included in the watch list under that Directive; / (ii) information on the hazardousness of the products referred to in point (i) in the surface water and groundwater; / (b) the producers referred to in paragraph 1 are required to contribute financially to the producer responsibility organisations in order to cover the costs arising from their extended producer res…

Removed:The provision on extended producer responsibility (EPR) under the EQSD is intended for relieving national budgets and taxpayers from the burden of costs that incur for implementing water monitoring programmes. The Commission's impact assessment foresees increases of expenses at Member State level associated with monitoring pollution due to the increased number and different nature of substances covered by the revised legislation. The EPR should be an appropriate measure to mitigate the increase of these costs.

Removed:Directive 2008/105/EC

Removed:Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new), Article 9 a: (8a) Article 9a is replaced by the following : / ‘Article 9a / 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 3(8) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of six years from 13 September 2013. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 8a(3a) shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of six years from [18 months after the date of entry into force of this Directive]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the six-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period. / 3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 3(8) and in Article 8a(3a) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. / 5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 3(8) or Article 8a(3a) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the Eur…

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Removed:A technical adaptation of Article 9a in Directive 2008/105/EC that corresponds to the power to adopt delegated acts in line with Article 8a(3a).

Removed:Directive 2006/118/EC

Removed:Annex III, Annex I – paragraph 1 a (new): Where, for a given body of groundwater, in particular a body of groundwater situated in the ecological network of special areas of conservation under Council Directive 92/43/EEC, it is considered that the groundwater quality standards could result in a failure to achieve the environmental objectives specified in Article 4 of Directive 2000/60/EC for associated bodies of surface water, or in any significant diminution of the ecological or chemical quality of such bodies, or in any significant damage to terrestrial ecosystems which depend directly on the body of groundwater, more stringent threshold values shall be established in accordance with Article 3 and Annex II to this Directive. Programmes and measures required in relation to such threshold values shall also apply to activities falling within the scope of Directive 91/676/EEC.

Removed:This amendment reinserts the text of the provision in Annex I of the GWD that the Commission suggested to delete in its proposal for revision, ensuring that in areas and especially in the protected areas like the Natura 2000 where the groundwater quality standards could result in a failure to achieve the environmental objectives under the WFD, more stringent threshold values should be established to ensure better protection for these areas.

Removed:Directive 2008/105/EC

Removed:A single threshold value should be defined for glyphosate in inland surface waters and not having one value for drinking water and the other for water that is not used for the abstraction and preparation of drinking water.