Legislation, Plan, etc.
Summary of high level aim/ purpose/ objective
Summary of lower level objectives, actions etc.
Relevance to the Plan
regulatory framework for environmental protection and management.
• Local authorities are required annually to identify bathing waters, establish a monitoring calendar, carry out the specified monitoring, report the results to the EPA, carry out appropriate management measures where necessary and provide information to the public. • There must be public participation in the identification of waters and the general implementation of the Regulations. • The EPA is required by the Regulations to classify bathing waters, generally on the basis of the monitoring results for the four preceding bathing seasons, and to publish an annual report in relation to bathing water quality. • Monitoring by local authorities is to commence not later than 2011 with a view to ensuring that a classification is assigned to bathing waters not later than 2015. • Private controllers of access lands may be required to contribute towards the costs incurred by a local authority or the EPA. Further defines the minimum number of bathing water samples required to carry out a bathing water quality assessment.
Bathing Water Quality (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I 351 of 2011) as amended by S.I. No. 163/2016 - Bathing Water Quality (Amendment) Regulations 2016
The Strategy shall be in harmony with all inter-related legislation, plans and programmes relevant to environmental, planning, transport and alternative fuel matters - such as this. Implementation of the Strategy needs to comply with all environmental legislation and align with and cumulatively contribute towards – in combination with other users and bodies and their plans etc. – the achievement of the objectives of the regulatory framework for environmental protection and management. The Strategy shall be in harmony with all inter-related legislation, plans and programmes relevant to environmental, planning, transport and alternative fuel matters - such as this.
This Regulation defines further the minimum number of bathing water samples required to carry out a bathing water quality assessment.
Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021
An Act to provide for the approval of plans by the Government in relation to climate change for the purpose of pursuing the transition to a low carbon, climate resilient and environmentally sustainable economy.
When considering a plan or framework, for approval, the Government shall endeavour to achieve the national transition objective within the period to which the objective relates and shall, in endeavouring to achieve that objective, ensure that such objective is achieved by the implementation
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