TheFloods and Water (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 were made on 20 March 2019 and will come into force on Exit Day.

The Regulations make minor and technical amendments to EU derived law on the protection of the water environment from various sources of pollution such as agriculture and urban sources, and protecting human health through the prevention of contamination in drinking and bathing waters. 

The Regulations amend the main directive in the field of water policy – the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC)– and seventeen other items of EU secondary legislation relating to the protection of the water environment. They also amend the Water Act 1989, the Water Industry Act 1991, the Water Resources Act 1991 and the Water Act 2014.