Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 694 Riga 2010 (27 July. No 38 32) amendments to the Cabinet of Ministers of 17 February 2004, the Regulation No 92 "requirements for surface water, ground water and monitoring of protected areas and monitoring development" Issued in accordance with the water management act the third subparagraph of article 20 and article 22 of the fifth to make the Cabinet on 17 February 2004, the Regulation No 92 "requirements for surface water, ground water and monitoring of protected areas and monitoring development" (Latvian journal 30, 2004, no; 2009, no. 17) the following amendments: 1. delete the reference to which the provisions of the basic law issued in numbers and the words "article 9 paragraph 4 of the fourth part".
2. Replace the text of the provisions, the word "agency" (fold) with the word "Centre" (the fold).
3. paragraph 2 shall be expressed as follows: "2. the State limited liability company" Latvian environment, geology and Meteorology Centre "(hereinafter referred to as the Centre) for each river basin district waters in developing a monitoring program that is the environmental monitoring programme. The formulation of the monitoring programme, the Centre engages experts and technicians, water quality assessment. The program includes surface waters and groundwater monitoring, including sensitive areas, according to the law on water and soil conservation of the agricultural activities of pollution by nitrates, as well as the monitoring of protected areas. The program determines the location of the monitoring stations, reporting parameters and the frequency of sampling. The protected area monitoring program shall include the requirements laid down in other environmental protection legislation. "
4. paragraph 3 shall be expressed by the following: "3. Surface water, ground water and monitoring of protected areas programmes organised by the center according to the competency. The Center is under the Ministry of the environment in relation to those requirements in these rules. Bathing water monitoring programme implementation organized and carried out a health inspection. Marine and agricultural noteč the implementation of a programme for monitoring organized and conducted the Latvian Hidroekoloģij Institute in cooperation with the Latvian Agricultural University under the competency. "
5. Supplement to chapter I, paragraph 5.1 by the following: "5.1 waters chemical monitoring is carried out in accordance with the rules in Appendix 2. '
6. Replace the words "paragraph 9.4 in the community" with the word "Union".
7. Replace paragraph 10, second sentence, the word "Annex" to the number and the word "annex 1".
8. Replace paragraph 13, the words "priority substances dangerous for the environment and water, and especially dangerous substances" with the words "priority substances, including water environment particularly dangerous substances (hereinafter referred to as priority substances), and hazardous substances".
9. Express 14.4. subparagraph by the following: "If the surface in 14.4. ūdensobjekt district priority substances and hazardous substances, the monitoring station shall be established in accordance with the laws and regulations on the emission of pollutants in the water and on the surface water quality."
10. Replace paragraph 15, second sentence, the word "Annex" to the number and the word "annex 1".
11. To complement the chapter II with 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4 and 18.5 points by the following: 18.1 priority substances "and the monitoring of dangerous substances into surface waters can be replaced with alternative monitoring these substances in sediments or biota, if the following requirements are met: 1. the waters of 18.1 for the assessment of the chemical legislation on water protection is definitely relevant priority substances and hazardous substances, regulations to ensure the quality of the environment or biota;
2. this rule 18.1 18.1 1 of the environmental quality referred to in the regulations ensure aquatic ecosystems the equivalent level of protection as the laws for the protection of waters down the relevant environmental quality standards for surface waters.
This rule 18.2 18.1 alternative referred to monitoring, sediment or biota samples are taken at least once a year. Centre, developing the rule referred to in paragraph 2 waters monitoring program based on expert assessment of the priority substances and concentrations of hazardous substances of natural and anthropogenic variation and seasonal fluctuation affects, may determine a different sampling frequency.
18.3 replacing and priority hazardous substances into surface waters monitoring this provision defined in point 18.1 alternative monitoring centre, the European Commission shall provide appropriate information. Information: 1. the alternative basis 18.3 monitoring check;
18.3 2. informed of the priority substances and hazardous substances regulations ensure the quality of the environment or biota, laid down in the law on the protection of waters, including the data and the methods used for determining the quality standards;
18.3 3. indicates the surface ūdensobjekt of the alternative set regulations ensure the quality of the environment or biota;
18.3 4. specify the frequency of monitoring planned sediments or biota.
18.4 based on water monitoring in these rules referred to in paragraph 3 according to competency institutions assess the priority substances and concentrations of hazardous substances in sediments or biota changes that its physico-chemical characteristics of sediments or biota to accumulate. Long-term trends of concentration of at least the following substances: 18.4 1. anthracene;
18.4 2. brominated diphenylether;
18.4 3. cadmium and its compounds;
18.4 4. alkanes C10-13;
18.4 5. di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP);
18.4 6. fluoranthene;
18.4 7. hexachlorobenzene;
18.4 8. hexachlorobutadiene;
18.4 9. hexachlorocyclohexane;
18.4 10. lead and its compounds;
18.4 11. mercury and its compounds;
18.4 12. pentachlorobenzene;
18.4 13. polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAH): 18.4 13.1. benzo (a) pyrene;
18.4 13.2. benzo (b) fluoranthene;
18.4 13.3. benzo (k) fluoranthene;
18.4 13.4. benzo (g, h, i) perylene;
18.4 13.5 indeno (1,2,3-cd) pyrene;
18.4 14. tributyltin compounds (tributyltin cations).
18.5 to ensure data reliable long-term changes of the concentration trend analysis, sediment or biota samples for monitoring of this rule 18.4 above requirements take three years. Centre, developing the rule referred to in paragraph 2 waters monitoring program based on expert assessment of the priority substances and concentrations of hazardous substances of natural and anthropogenic variation and seasonal fluctuation affects, may determine a different sampling frequency. "

12. Express 19.1. subparagraph by the following: ' 19.1. ūdensobjekt concerned priority substances discharged and dangerous substances; ".
13. Complement 38.1.1. subparagraph after the word "study" by the words "and to consider".
14. Make the following paragraph 23.9: "23.9. carries out other measures to prevent further contamination of surface or underground water situation, the priority and the concentration of hazardous substances emanating in sediments and biota, and promote the surface or ground water improvement."
15. To supplement the provisions of Chapter VI, by the following: "VI. final question 42. These rules 5.1 and annex 2 shall enter into force on 20 august 2011."
16. Add to the informative reference to directives by the European Union (4) and (5) as follows: "4) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008, Directive 2008/105/EC on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy, amending and subsequently repealing Council directives 82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and amending Directive 2000/60/EC;
5) Commission 2009 July 31 2009/90/EC of the European Parliament and Council Directive 2000/60/EC lays down the technical specifications on the waters chemical analysis and monitoring. "
17. Replace the names and numbers in the annex "annex to the Cabinet of Ministers of 17 February 2004 the provisions of no. 92" with numbers and the words "annex 1 Cabinet of 17 February 2004 the provisions of no. 92".
18. To supplement the provisions of annex 2 as follows: "annex 2 Cabinet of 17 February 2004 the provisions of no. 92 claims waters chemical monitoring 1. public entities or individuals, which the law on the protection of the waters is obliged to carry out the monitoring, which includes the waters of chemical monitoring, ensure that the following requirements are met: 1. all laboratory, field and online methods of testing the waters used in monitoring water sediment and biota, physico-chemical and chemical testing of parameters is validated (evaluated) and documented in accordance with the standard LVS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 "the competence of testing and calibration laboratories-General requirements";
1.2. laboratory or their subcontractors, with which the laboratory has concluded a contract for the performance of certain work for chemical monitoring (subcontractors), participate in skill tests: 1.2.1. organised by the Member States of the European Union, European economic area countries or organisations accredited in the Republic of Turkey or of the competent bodies which comply with European Union legislation on the technical specifications of the waters chemical analysis and monitoring requirements for skill checks;
1.2.2. in which the results will be evaluated according to the evaluation of the results of the systems which meet European Union legislation on the technical specifications of the waters chemical analysis and monitoring standards for the skills test or the use of statistical methods for the assessment of skills tests in the laboratory of comparative testing.
2. Waters chemical monitoring test methods required to assess at least: detection limit 2.1 as a signal or a concentration value, above which the reliability of previously established may argue that a model different from the blank sample, in which there is no identifiable parameter;
2.2. the limit of quantification as defined above the limit of detection at a multiple of parameter concentration, analyte that can be determined with acceptable accuracy and precision. The limit of quantification may be calculated using an appropriate reference standard or sample, and it can be obtained from the calibration curve of the lowest calibration point, without taking into consideration the blank sample;
2.3. measurement uncertainty as a positive parameter, which represents the measured size of quantitative distribution of values. Evaluation of uncertainty of experimental data can be used to test internal control data, expert evaluation, as well as literature and representative benchmark testing of laboratory data.
3. the chemical monitoring waters used in the methods of testing the performance characteristics ensure the following requirements: 3.1. measurement uncertainty, which evaluate the parameter of environmental quality legislative level is 50% or less, if k = 2 (k is used for the numerical value in the statistics-overlap coefficient, which is used as a factor in the calculation of the uncertainty for the measurement uncertainty to ensure at least 95% level of confidence);
3.2. specific limit of quantification of the parameter is equal to the 30% or less than 30% of the value of the environmental quality regulations.
4. If, for a given parameter is not specified in the regulations or the quality of the environment there is no such test methods, which provides in paragraph 3 of this annex, the specific requirements of the waters chemical monitoring is carried out using the best available analytical methods, which do not entail excessive costs.
5. Monitoring results mean value calculation in compliance with the following requirements: 5.1 if certain physico-chemical or chemical values of the measurements given in the sample is less than the limit of quantification of the parameter, then the results of such measurements the mean value calculation is defined as half of the limit of quantification;
5.2. If the calculated the arithmetic mean of the results of the measurement value is less than the limit of quantification of the parameter, the calculated value is indicated as "less than the limit of quantification";
5.3. the conditions referred to in point 5.1 do not apply to the measurements set as physico-chemical parameter groups or chemical parameter groups in total, including their relevant metabolites, degradation and reaction products. In the cases referred to in this paragraph, the results of individual substances below the limit of quantification equates to zero.
6. the waters chemical monitoring results of quality assurance and control laboratories or their subcontractors comply with the following requirements:

6.1. all transactions that include the waters chemical monitoring carried out in accordance with the quality management system procedures that meet standard LVS EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 "the competence of testing and calibration laboratories-General requirements";
6.2. its expertise, analyzing relevant physico-chemical or chemical parameters according to the following test: the quality requirements 6.2.1 participating in skills tests, which test is carried out with this annex referred to in point 1.1 testing methods and analysis for parameters is such a level of concentration inherent in the relevant chemical parameters to be determined in samples of monitoring concentrations;
6.2.2. analysing the available reference material, which is specific to the chemical monitoring samples with concentrations of the parameters to be determined is the appropriate environmental quality within the regulatory concentration level. "
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