1. EC Bathing Water Directive Jon Worth jon@jonworth.eu Jon Worth jon@jonworth.eu Photo © Teignbridge District Council

2. Background - Pillars I Single Market EC III PJCCM EU II CFSP EU

3. Background - Policy Cycle Commission drafts legislation Legislation published Co-decision Legislation agreed Implementation Is the legislation working? Commission analysis Commission Expert Groups Council Working Groups Comitology Committees

4. Types of EC Legislation Directives binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which they are addressed choice of form and methods left to national authorities Regulations general application binding in their entirety directly applicable in all Member States …either of these need a legal basis.

5. Committee(s) and Plenary Simple majority General Approach, Political Agreement Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV Co-decision: 1st Reading deal Commission publishes draft Directive European Parliament amends Council accepts Parliament amendments Directive agreed

6. Commission Structure

7. Political Groups

8. Council Hierarchy Working Groups COREPER Council UK Permanent Representation to the EU (UKRep) Whitehall

9. Council Formations General Affairs and External Relations (GAERC) Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Agriculture and Fisheries Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research) Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Environment Education, Youth and Culture

10. Council Voting  Currently Qualified Majority VotingQualified Majority Voting  255 of 345 votes  Simple majority of MS (i.e. 14)  62% of the EU population  From 2014 / 2017 (Reform Treaty)  55% of the Member States  65% of the EU Population  Currently Qualified Majority VotingQualified Majority Voting  255 of 345 votes  Simple majority of MS (i.e. 14)  62% of the EU population  From 2014 / 2017 (Reform Treaty)  55% of the Member States  65% of the EU Population

11. Committee(s) and Plenary Simple majority General Approach, Political Agreement Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV Co-decision: 1st Reading deal Commission publishes draft Directive European Parliament amends Council accepts Parliament amendments Directive agreed

12. Committee(s) and Plenary Simple majority Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV General Approach, Political Agreement Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV Committee(s) and Plenary Absolute majority Co-decision: 2nd Reading deal Commission publishes draft Directive European Parliament amends Council rejects Parliament amendments Common Position European Parliament amends Council accepts Parliament amendments Directive agreed

13. Committee(s) and Plenary Simple majority 27 MEPs, 27 MS, Commission Prepared by trialogue Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV General Approach, Political Agreement Working Groups, COREPER, Council QMV Committee(s) and Plenary Absolute majority Co-decision: 3rd Reading deal Commission publishes draft Directive European Parliament amends Council rejects Parliament amendments Common Position European Parliament amends Council rejects Parliament amendments Conciliation 3rd ReadingDirective agreed

14. Water Quality  Existing Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC): responsible for an increase in bathing water quality at identified bathing sites throughout Europe, achieving its primary aim of protecting public health.  Directive considered to be in need of simplification and updating to take into account lessons learnt from its implementation, developments in science and knowledge about the risks of bathing.  New draft Directive published in 2002. update the way in which water quality is measured, focusing on fewer microbiological indicators, and setting different standards for inland and coastal bathing sites reduce the health risks linked to bathing by setting scientifically based minimum water quality standards make changes to monitoring and sampling frequency allow a limited number of water samples to be disregarded during short term pollution incidents, if the event is predicted and the public warned beforehand provide better information to the public, allowing more informed choices to be made about the risk of bathing improve the overall management of bathing water quality by requiring an assessment of potential sources of pollution be compatible with other EU water related legislation  Existing Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC): responsible for an increase in bathing water quality at identified bathing sites throughout Europe, achieving its primary aim of protecting public health.  Directive considered to be in need of simplification and updating to take into account lessons learnt from its implementation, developments in science and knowledge about the risks of bathing.  New draft Directive published in 2002. update the way in which water quality is measured, focusing on fewer microbiological indicators, and setting different standards for inland and coastal bathing sites reduce the health risks linked to bathing by setting scientifically based minimum water quality standards make changes to monitoring and sampling frequency allow a limited number of water samples to be disregarded during short term pollution incidents, if the event is predicted and the public warned beforehand provide better information to the public, allowing more informed choices to be made about the risk of bathing improve the overall management of bathing water quality by requiring an assessment of potential sources of pollution be compatible with other EU water related legislation

15. Approaching EU Institutions DEFRA UK NGOs EU-level Networks Commission Parliament Council NMDs, Agencies

16. Legislation Databases  European Parliament OEIL http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/  Commission EUR-LEX http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ http://eur-lex.europa.eu/  Commission PRE-LEX http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/ http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/  European Parliament OEIL http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/  Commission EUR-LEX http://eur-lex.europa.eu/ http://eur-lex.europa.eu/  Commission PRE-LEX http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/ http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/