European Communities - Eighth Report

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Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 November 1997.

CONTENTS

	Paragraph
PART 1	1
The Background to this Report	1
The History of Community Water Policy	2
The Commission's Proposals	6
PART 2 WITNESSES' VIEWS	9
The Government	10
Explanatory Memorandum (Appendix 3)	10
Oral Evidence from the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions	14
Non-governmental organisations	18
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds	18
Other bodies	22
Statutory Environmental Protection and Nature Conservation Agencies	23
The Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency	23
English Nature and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee	29
The Water Industry and its Customers	30
The Water Services Association, the Water Companies Association and the North of Scotland Water Authority	30
WRc plc	34
The Director General of Water Services (OFWAT)	35
The Consumers' Association and the OFWAT National Customer Council	36
PART 3 OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE	37
General	37
River Basin Management	44
Environmental Objectives	49
Timetable	52
Monitoring	53
Costs of Implementation	54
Management of Supply and Demand	55
Charges, Cost Recovery and Economic Instruments	57
Recommendation	59

Appendix 1-Membership of Sub-Committee C

Appendix 2-List of Witnesses

Appendix 3-Explanatory Memorandum by the Department of the Environment on the Proposal for a Council Directive establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy

NOTE: Pages of the report are numbered in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type. References in the text of the report are as follows:

(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence;

(p) with a bold number refers to a page of the report and with an ordinary number to a page

of evidence.

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Prepared 1 December 1997