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1 UKTAG is a partnership of the UK environment and conservation agencies, including the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage, which was established to provide technical advice to the UK Administrations on the implementation of the WFD.
2 Water resource standards include standards for river flows, freshwater flows into estuaries, loch levels
3 The term "morphological conditions" refers to the physical structure of the bed, banks and shores of surface waters and the condition of the land immediately adjacent to the surface water.
4 Decision No 2455/2001/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2001 establishing the list of priority substances in the field of water policy and amending Directive 2000/60/EC.
5 For rivers, the environmental quality standards for ammonia are set out in the 2007 Directions.
6 Further information on the role of biological standards in classifying the ecological status of surface waters can be found at: http://www.wfduk.org/UKCLASSPUB/LibraryPublicDocs/sw_status_classification
7 Directive 2006/118/EC
8 http://www.wfduk.org/stakeholder_reviews/stakeholder_review_1-2007/LibraryPublicDocs/gw_chemical_classification_paper_final_draft
9 http://www.wfduk.org/UKCLASSPUB/LibraryPublicDocs/sw_status_classification
10 Development of environmental standards and conditions
11 As categorised in accordance with Table B of Annex 2 above.
12 As categorised in accordance with table B of Annex 2 above. The nomenclature is slightly different from that used in the 2007 Directions but the relevant depth categories are the same.
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