The 1st Watch List (WL) for substances in surface waters under the Environmental Quality Standards Directive (EQSD – Directive 2013/39/EU) was established by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/495 in March 2015. The list was first updated in June 2018 by the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/840. The period of continuous monitoring for any WL substance…
According to the Environmental Quality Standards Directive 2008/105/EC as amended by Directive 2013/39/EU (EQSD), a mechanism was needed to provide high-quality monitoring information on the concentrations of potentially polluting substances in the aquatic environment to support future prioritization exercises in line with Article 16(2) of Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive, WFD), and thereby to improve…
