Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Water Quality Monitoring Report: Discussion

Dr. Eimear Cotter:

Yes. We have been reporting. The nitrates directive has been in place since 1991. Our main role in that is producing annual reports that we submit to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine every year. We have four yearly reports as well. The annexe is a new requirement that has just come in this year. There are four criteria that have been set out by the Commission, which we have followed, and they are very tightly prescribed in terms of how we go about doing that. It is something on which we have been reporting under the nitrates directive but annexe 1 is the new requirement this year, which was agreed between the Commission and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine as part of securing the nitrates derogation.

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