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Bo“ “1 DIRECTORATE-GENERAL XI
1. ENVIRONMENT, NUCLEAR SAFETY AND CIVIL PROTECTION

X1.B.3 - Legal affairs, activities related to legislation and enforcement of Community Law

Brise, 30.38 /Xl/ 0255838

XI.B.3.LC./water.98

Your Excellency,

I refer to previous correspondence in connection with Directive 91/676/EEC conceming
the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources.

With reference in particular to your Article 10 report provided on 17 July 1995, I would
be grateful if your authorities would provide a copy of all of the reports submitted by
local authorities (one of the 5 data sources examined by your authorities in assessing
whether vulnerable zones need to be designated) together with the monitoring data on
which the local authority reports were based.

With reference to Article 6(1)(b) ofthe Directive, I would remind your authorities that a
repeat of the monitoring programme required under Article 6(1)(a) should have been
concluded by 18 December 1997 at the latest (with exceptions for some sampling
stations). I would be grateful to receive acopy ofthe monitoring data resulting from this
repeat exercise together with any analysis which your authorities have made ofthe data.

With reference to Article 6(1)(c), I would be grateful for Ireland's review of the eutrophic
status of all Irish fresh surface waters, estuarial and coastal waters. The 1995 Article 10
report noted that a more detailed estuarine and coastal waters monitoring programme was
needed, and that arrangements were in hand to address the matter. I would be grateful for
details.

I look forward to hearing from you within the next two months.

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His Excellency

Permanent Representative of Ireland
to the European Union

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