Article 40.1 of the recast text of the Water Law, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2001 of 20 July, states that hydrological planning will have as general objectives the good state and the right protection of water and water public domain, the satisfaction of water demands, the balance and harmonization of regional and sectoral development, increasing the availability of resources, protecting their quality, saving their employment and rationalizing their uses in harmony with the environment and other resources natural. In this sense, the aforementioned article, in paragraph 3, states that the hydrological planning is carried out through the river basin management plans and the National Hydrological Plan, the latter approved by Law 10/2001 of 5 July of the Plan National Hydrologic.

The regulatory framework for hydrological planning is set up by Directive 2000 /60/EC of 23 October 2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Community framework for action in the field of hydrological the water policy; the recast of the Water Law; Law 10/2001 of 5 July; Royal Decree 849/1986, of 11 April, approving the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain that develops the preliminary titles, I, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of the recast text of the Water Act; Royal Decree 907/2007 of 6 July 2007 approving the Regulation of the Hydrological Planning; Order ARM/2656/2008, of 10 September, for which the Instruction of Hydrological Planning is approved; the Royal Decree 60/2011, of January 21, on the norms of environmental quality in the field of the Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December laying down the legal system for the reuse of sewage water; Royal Decree 1514/2009 of 2 October 2000 on the protection of waters and the protection of the waters of the waters of the European Union underground pollution and deterioration; and Royal Decree 903/2010, of 9 July, of assessment and flood risk management. In addition, in the field of flood management, account shall be taken of: the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 29 July 2011 approving the State Plan for Civil Protection in the face of the Flood Risk and the Council Agreement of Ministers of 9 December 1994 approving the Basic Guideline for the Planning of Civil Protection to the Risk of Flood, where the content and basic functions of the autonomous communities ' plans are established before the flood risk.

The previous regulatory framework is completed by Royal Decree 650/1987 of 8 May, defining the territorial areas of the basin bodies and the hydrological plans, the Royal Decree 125/2007 of 2 February, laying down the territorial scope of the river basin districts, Royal Decree 126/2007 of 2 February 2007 governing the composition, functioning and the powers of the committees of competent authorities of the demarcations In the case of water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water, water and water establishes the composition, structure and functioning of the Water Council of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar and amending various rules concerning the scope and constitution of the Hydrographic Demarcation and the Confederation Hydrographic of the Júcar.

This regulatory framework falls within the scope of international treaties signed by Spain, in particular the Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution, signed in Barcelona on 16 February. 1976.

Article 40.3 of the recast of the Water Law establishes that the territorial scope of each hydrological plan will be matched with that of the corresponding Hydrographic Demarcation. In this sense, the Royal Decree 125/2007, of 2 February, has defined the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar, then the territorial scope of this plan comprises the territory of the intercommunity river basins and, provisionally, in the transfer of functions and services in the field of water resources and use, the territory of the intra-Community river basins between the left bank of the Gola del Segura in its territory is carried out the mouth and the mouth of the Cenia river, including its basin; and the basin Pozohondo's endorics, along with the transitional waters. The coastal waters have as limit south the line with orientation 100. º that passes through the coastal boundary between the municipal terms of Elche and Guardamar of the Segura and as limit north the line with orientation 122.5. ° that passes through the southern end from the beach of Alcanar.

Consequently, the Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar, being the Basin Agency of this Hydrographic Demarcation, has elaborated this Hydrological Plan, which implies the repeal of the previous Hydrological Plan of the Júcar approved by Royal Decree 1664/1998 of 24 July 1998 approving the river basin management plans, which also extends to the determinations of the normative content of this Plan which was published by the Order of 13 of August 1999.

The competition of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar is based, as established in Article 23.1.a) of the recast text of the Water Law and has been expressed through its Board of Government and the Water Council of Demarcation of the form that is related below.

The procedure followed by the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, for the elaboration of this Hydrological Plan has been developed in three stages: a first, in which according to the article 78.1 of the Hydrological Planning was developed a work program that included a schedule on the planned phases, a general study of the Demarcation and the formulas of consultation; a second in which an Interim Outline of Themes was elaborated Important in the field of water management of the Hydrographic Demarcation; and another third in which it was carried out to the drafting of the Hydrological Plan itself.

In the second stage of the hydrological planning process, and following the mandatory public consultation over a period of six months, the Basin Agency produced a report on the proposals, comments and suggestions received. The Provisional Scheme of Important Issues, which is incorporated into the Interim Scheme, which I consider to be appropriate in this way.

According to the unique transitional provision of Royal Decree 907/2007 of July 6, and as the Demarcation Water Council is not yet constituted, the Provisional Outline of Important Issues required the report. Regulation of the Water Council of the Basin of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar and the compliance of the Committee of Competent Authorities of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar. The Water Council of the Basin, meeting on 13 May 2013, issued a favourable report and welcomed the procedure developed for the preparation of the aforementioned document. For its part, on May 13, the Committee of Demarcation Competent Authorities gave their agreement.

In the third stage of the planning process, the Basin Agency drafted the proposal for the Hydrographic Watershed Project of the Hydrographic Demarcation. The elaboration of the Plan was guided by environmental, economic and social sustainability criteria in the use of water through integrated management and long-term protection of water resources, prevention of deterioration of water status, protection and improvement of the environment and aquatic ecosystems, reduction of pollution and prevention of the effects of floods and droughts.

During the process of drawing up the Plan, it has been tried to provide the content of a pedagogical character that allows different water users to know the state regulations that serve as a regulatory framework and which is governed by the law. To this end, it is understood as users of water and, in general, of the goods of the Public Water Domain, to those who make use of them, understanding as uses of water the different classes of utilization of the water resource, as well as any other activity having significant impact on the state of the waters.

In parallel with the elaboration of the Hydrological Plan, interactively throughout its development and decision-making process, the process of strategic environmental assessment of the Plan has been carried out, with the provisions of Article 71.6 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation. Thus, this Hydrological Plan has been submitted to the aforementioned procedure, as established by Law 9/2006, of 28 April, repealed by Law 21/2013, of 9 December, in order to integrate environmental aspects into such planning.

Consequently, on 23 December 2009, the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, responsible for the elaboration of the Hydrological Plan and, therefore, a promoter in the process of strategic environmental assessment, issued the Initial document that began the process by which the corresponding environmental organ, the General Directorate of Quality and Environmental Assessment of the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, current Ministry of Agriculture, was informed. Food and Environment, the beginning of the process of elaboration of the Hydrological Plan, according to determines Article 18 of Law 9/2006, of April 28.

Following the mandatory consultation procedure for the public authorities concerned and the public concerned, the environmental body issued the Reference Document dated 23 July 2010, as provided for in Articles 9 and 19 of the Treaty. Law 9/2006, of 28 April, in which the strategic environmental criteria are defined, the principles of sustainability applicable and the content of the information to be taken into account in the elaboration of the Environmental Sustainability Report of the Hydrological Plan.

In the Environmental Sustainability Report, they identify, describe and evaluate the likely significant effects on the environment arising from the Hydrographic Demarcation Hydrographic Plan of the Júcar, as well as some of the reasonable, technical and environmentally viable alternatives, which take into account the objectives and territorial scope of application of the same.

Following the process of drawing up the plan, prior to the mandatory public consultation of the proposal for a project of the Hydrological Plan, and in order to promote and make effective the active participation of the parties In the planning process, the Basin Agency organized, on the one hand, information days aimed at the general public and, on the other hand, sectoral work tables and meetings with experts of recognized prestige. particular emphasis on the aspects related to research, development and innovation technology in the field of water.

The project proposal for the Hydrological Plan and the Environmental Sustainability Report were submitted to public consultation for a period of 6 months, from 7 August 2013 to 7 February 2014.

The public consultation period, the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation, produced a report on the proposals, comments and suggestions received, incorporating those that I consider appropriate and, subsequently, 14 of March 2014 submitted it to the Demarcation Water Council's mandatory report and to the compliance of the Committee of Competent Authorities.

The final wording of the project of the Hydrological Plan and its Environmental Memory was transmitted on March 24, 2014 to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment. The Environmental Memory was taken into account, issued on March 20, 2014 and approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment on March 25, 2014 in accordance with Article 80.4 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment submitted the Project to the National Water Council, which issued its mandatory report dated March 26, 2014, as a step prior to its actual approval. Government decree.

The content of this Plan is in line with the guiding principles of water management, respecting the unit of the water basin, the hydraulic systems and the hydrological cycle, as well as the provided for in Article 42 of the recast text of the Water Law and following the provisions of Article 81 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, the documentation of the Hydrographic Demarcation Water Plan of the Júcar is structured in, on the one hand, the memory, accompanied by twelve years, and on the other hand, the regulations with ten appendices, which includes the determinations of normative content of the Plan and which is an inseparable part of this royal decree. Without this being binding, the content of the Plan provided for in the Report and its annexes, in particular to the Programme of Measures of Annex 10, is therefore not binding, since in accordance with Article 40.4 of the recast text of the Water Law hydrologic are public and binding.

Effectively, the Action Programme is a binding and binding instrument on the time horizon of the plan, from which its main regulatory mandates have been extracted to transfer them to the Regulation as follows from the royal decree, and therefore the basic principles of that programme are structurally included in the said Regulation, but do not therefore cease to have the remainder of the Programme of Measures of a compulsory nature. compliance.

The publicity of the Hydrological Plan, taking into account the extent of each of the parts in which it is structured, materializes, as it appears in the third provision of this royal decree, through the formal publication of the normative content of the Plan and its appendices, together with the royal decree of approval, in the "Official State Gazette"; and the publication of the Memory and its annexes on the Web page of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Sugar.

The royal decree consists of two articles, seven additional provisions, a repeal provision, two final provisions and the plan's regulations.

The regulations approved consists of 66 articles, structured in 11 chapters dedicated to: general provisions, general description of the river basin, environmental objectives, ecological flow rates, priority and compatibility of uses, allocations and reserves of resources, use of the public hydraulic domain, protection of public domain hydraulic and water quality, financial economic regime of the use of public domain hydraulics, monitoring and review of the hydrological plan and competent authorities; and public participation.

In its virtue, on the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment, with the prior approval of the Minister of Finance and Public Administrations, in agreement with the Council of State and after deliberation of the Council of Ministers at their meeting on 11 July 2014,

DISPONGO:

Article 1. Approval of the Hydrographic Demarcation Hydrographic Plan.

1. In accordance with the provisions of Article 40.5 of the recast of the Water Law, approved by Royal Legislative Decree 1/2001 of July 20, the Hydrographic Demarcation Of The Sugar Basin Plan is approved.

2. The structure of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Sugar Plan in accordance with Article 81 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, approved by Royal Decree 907/2007 of 6 July, is as follows:

(a) A Memory and twelve years with the following titles: Manages of artificial water and very modified (Annex 1), Inventory of natural water resources (Annex 2), Uses and water demands (Annex 3), Register of protected zones (Annex 4), Ecological Caudals (Annex 5), Operating systems and balance sheets (Annex 6), Pressure inventory (Annex 7), Environmental objectives and exemptions (Annex 8), Cost recovery (Annex 9), Programme of measures (Annex 10), Participation public (Annex 11) and Assessment of the state of the surface and groundwater bodies

(annex 12).

(b) A Regulation of the Plan that is inserted into this royal decree accompanied by ten appendices, with the following titles: Surface water Masses (Appendix 1), Underground water Masses (Appendix 2), Reference conditions in masses Surface reference conditions (Appendix 4), Environmental targets (Appendix 5), Ecological Caudals (Appendix 6), Dotations (Appendix 7), Natural river reserves (Appendix 8), Protection zones (Appendix 3), Environmental targets (Appendix 5) special (Appendix 9) and Protection perimeters (Appendix 10).

3. The territorial scope of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar Hydrographic Plan is defined in Article 2.3 of the Royal Decree 125/2007 of 2 February, setting out the territorial scope of the river basin districts.

Article 2. Conditions for the realization of hydraulic infrastructures promoted by the General Administration of the State.

Hydraulic infrastructures promoted by the General Administration of the State and foreseen in the Plan, will be submitted prior to their realization, to an analysis on their technical, economic and environmental feasibility by the General Administration of the State. In any case, their construction will be subject to the existing rules on environmental assessment, budgetary availability and the corresponding sectoral plans, where their specific rules so provide.

Additional disposition first. Adaptation and consolidation of metrics and thresholds for the assessment of the status of water bodies.

By Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment on the proposal of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Sugar Industry, and before the favorable report of the Water Council of the Demarcation, they can be incorporated, adapted and consolidate the metrics, reference conditions and thresholds necessary to assess the status of the water bodies of the Júcar Hydrographic Demarcation Until achieving an adequate assessment for the purpose of presenting an integrated image and consistent with the state of the water bodies, in accordance with the new provisions or new developments (a) scientific and technical, national and Community, to be produced in the identification and use of such parameters.

It is considered that there is no deterioration of the water masses in case it is the result of the incorporation of new parameters that offer a more precise determination of their state. In order to verify the evolution of the state of the water masses, in the successive revisions of the Hydrological Plan will be detailed together with the most updated assessment, the collection initially in this Plan.

Additional provision second. Program of measures.

Within the Program of Measures, which is an inseparable part of this Hydrological Plan, and developed in extensive in the Annex 10 of the Memory will be prioritized, according to the available budget, those actions that have an impact on water bodies that have a worse status or potential than "good", to achieve the proposed environmental objectives and to achieve good or potential status within the time limits. In particular, the second phase of the replacement of East-Channel pumps and the modernisation of the traditional irrigation of the Ribera del Júcar will be prioritised.

Within these actions, measures that are more sustainable both from an environmental and an economic point of view will be encouraged, in this case to the relationship between the cost and the effectiveness of the measure. This shall be without prejudice to the obligation to comply with the parts of the Programme of Measures which have been incorporated in the Regulations referred to in Article 1.2.b) and to those other parts of which its binding character is derived.

Additional provision third. Advertising.

Given the public nature of the hydrological plans, in accordance with the provisions of Article 40.4 of the recast text of the Water Law, the entire content of the Hydrographic Demarcation Hydrographic Plan of the Sugar (a) to be consulted by any person in accordance with the terms of Law 27/2006 of 18 July on the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in the field of the environment; planning of the Web page of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar: www.chj.es.

Also, copies or certificates may be obtained from the ends of the same in accordance with the provisions of Article 37 of Law 30/1992, of November 26, of the Legal Regime of Public Administrations and of the Procedure Common Administrative.

Additional provision fourth. Integration of the protection of the water environment into other sectoral policies.

In order to achieve a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the aquatic environment, in accordance with Article 43.3 of the recast of the Water Law, the requirements of the protection of the water environment must be integrate in the definition and implementation of the sectoral policies, plans, programs and projects to be developed in the River Basin District, in order to promote the rational, balanced and sustainable use of water.

Additional provision fifth. Economic regime.

The application of this royal decree will not result in any increase in personnel spending. The new human resource needs that may arise as a result of the regulatory obligations set out in this royal decree must be met by reordering or redistributing the personnel.

Additional provision sixth. Update and review of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Sugar Plan.

In accordance with paragraph 6 of the 11th additional provision of the recast text of the Water Act and its development in Title III of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, this Plan will be updated and revised before. of 31 December 2015.

Additional provision seventh. Declaration of public utility and social interest.

In accordance with Article 44.2 of the recast text of the Water Act, and Article 91 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, they are declared to be of public utility for the purposes of the Law of 16 December 1954, Forced expropriation, the projects and works necessary for the implementation of all the related infrastructures in the Program of Measures of the Hydrological Plan, as well as the lands that are not of precise public domain for the achievement of the environmental objectives of the surface and underground water bodies of the Plan.

Single repeal provision. Repeal of the Sugar Basin Hydrological Plan.

Article 1 (1) (g) of Royal Decree 1664/1998 of 24 July 1998 laying down the river basin management plans and the Order of 13 August 1999 laying down the provisions of the Treaty on the European Union (OJ L 115, 7.4.1998, p. 1). publication of the normative content determinations of the Sugar Basin Hydrological Plan.

Final disposition first. Competence title.

This royal decree is issued in accordance with the provisions of Article 149.1.22. of the Spanish Constitution, which attributes to the State jurisdiction over legislation, management and the granting of water resources and resources. when the waters run through more than one autonomous community.

Final disposition second. Entry into force.

This royal decree will enter into force on the day following its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Given in Madrid, July 11, 2014.

FELIPE R.

The Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Environment,

ISABEL GARCÍA TEJERINA

HYDROLOGICAL PLAN OF THE HYDROGRAPHIC DEMARCATION OF THE JUCAR

INDEX

Chapter 1. General provisions.

Article 1. Object.

Article 2. Territorial scope of the hydrological plan.

Chapter 2. Overview of the hydrographic demarcation.

Article 3. Identification and delimitation of surface water masses.

Article 4. Designation of masses of artificial or highly modified waters.

Article 5. Identification and delimitation of groundwater bodies.

Article 6. Reference conditions and class change limits.

Chapter 3. Environmental objectives.

Article 7. Environmental objectives.

Article 8. Temporary deterioration of the state of the water masses.

Article 9. Conditions for new modifications or alterations of the state of the water masses.

Chapter 4. Ecological flow rates.

Article 10. Scope of application.

Article 11. Definition of the system of ecological flows under ordinary conditions.

Article 12. Definition of the ecological flow rate regime under prolonged drought conditions.

Article 13. Consultation and implementation of the minimum flow rate regime.

Article 14. Control and monitoring of the minimum flow rate regime.

Article 15. Compliance with the minimum flow rate regime.

Article 16. Minimum flow rates downstream of reservoirs.

Article 17. Water requirements for wet areas.

Chapter 5. Priority and compatibility of uses.

Article 18. Uses of water.

Article 19. Order of preference for uses.

Article 20. Usage compatibility criteria.

Article 21. Public Utility Statement.

Chapter 6. Resource allocations and reserves.

Article 22. General considerations for resource allocation and reserve.

Article 23. Definition of operating systems.

Article 24. Senia-Maestrazgo System.

Article 25. System Mijare-Plana de Castellón.

Article 26. Palancia-Los Valles System.

Article 27. Turia system.

Article 28. System Jucar.

Article 29. Serpis System.

Article 30. High Marine System.

Article 31. Low Marine System.

Article 32. Vinalopo-Alacanti System.

Article 33. Demands not met with own resources.

Chapter 7. Use of the hydraulic public domain.

Section 1. Common and proprietary uses.

Article 34. Guidelines for the protection of groundwater.

Article 35. Measurement devices.

Section 2. Authorizations and Concessions.

Article 36. General rules on concessions.

Article 37. Water envelopes for population supply.

Article 38. Water envelopes for irrigation.

Article 39. Allocations for industrial use other than supply of population.

Article 40. Limitations to concessional time limits.

Article 41. Concessions for hydropower.

Article 42. Of the conditions for the execution of energy use.

Article 43. Groundwater authorizations and concessions.

Article 44. Authorisations and concessions for sewage treatment plants.

Article 45. User communities.

Chapter 8. Protection of the water supply and water quality.

Section 1. General rules on flood protection and protection zones.

Article 46. Flood protection.

Article 47. Protected zone registration.

Article 48. River natural reserves.

Article 49. Special protection zones.

Article 50. Protective perimeters.

Article 51. Invasive alien species.

Section 2. Discharges.

Article 52. General conditions.

Article 53. Particular conditions.

Article 54. Ownership of the discharges.

Article 55. Low entity discharges.

Article 56. Indirect flow estimates.

Section 3. Reuse of water.

Article 57. Reuse of purged wastewater.

Chapter 9. Financial economic regime for the use of hydraulic public domain.

Article 58. Applying the principle of cost recovery.

Article 59. Exceptions to the application of the cost recovery principle

Chapter 10. Monitoring and review of the Hydrological Plan.

Article 60. Specific follow-up aspects of the Plan.

Article 61. Natural river reserves designated after the approval of the hydrological plan.

Article 62. Track the circumstances of temporary deterioration in water bodies.

Article 63. Review of the Hydrological Plan.

Chapter 11. Public participation and competent authorities.

Article 64. Organization and procedure for making public participation effective.

Article 65. Hydrological Plan Information System.

Article 66. Competent authorities.

Stubs.

Appendix 1. Surface water masses.

Appendix 2. Underground water handles.

Appendix 3. Reference conditions on surface masses.

Appendix 4. Reference conditions in underground masses.

Appendix 5. Environmental objectives.

Appendix 6. Ecological flows.

Appendix 7. Endowments.

Appendix 8. River natural reserves.

Appendix 9. Special protection zones.

Appendix 10. Protective perimeters.

CHAPTER 1

General provisions

Article 1. Object.

This regulation aims to incorporate in a single document the normative contents of the hydrological plan of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar, in compliance with the provisions of Article 81 of the Royal Decree 907/2007, of 6 July, for which the Regulation of Hydrological Planning is approved.

Article 2. Territorial scope of the hydrological plan.

The territorial scope of this hydrological plan is the territory of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar defined by Royal Decree 125/2007, of 2 February, for which the territorial scope of the demarcations is fixed hydrographic.

CHAPTER 2

Overview of the River Demarcation

Article 3. Identification and delimitation of surface water masses.

1. They identify and delimit 349 surface water masses, which are listed in Appendix 1.

2. The situation and limits of the above surface water masses are available and accessible to the public through the services of the IDE (Space Data Infrastructure) of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar at www.chj.es, where each mass of water is identified by the code referred to in Appendix 1.

3. These surface water masses are classified into:

a) river category, 304 water bodies of which 257 correspond to natural rivers, 43 to very modified water bodies and 4 to artificial water bodies.

b) category lake, 19 water bodies, of which 16 correspond to natural lakes and 3 to very modified water bodies.

c) category of transitional water masses, 4 heavily modified water bodies, of which 2 correspond to saline estuaries and 2 to salt estuaries.

d) category of coastal masses, 22 bodies of water, of which 16 correspond to natural masses and 6 with bodies of water greatly modified by the presence of ports.

Article 4. Designation of masses of artificial or highly modified waters.

1. 4 artificial water bodies of category rivers are designated, of which 3 are equivalent to rivers and 1 to lakes, which are listed in Appendix 1.

2. 54 very modified bodies of water are designated: 43 of category rivers, of which 16 are similar to rivers and 27 to reservoirs, 1 of category lakes, 4 of category of transition waters and 6 of category of coastal waters -ports-, which are related in the Cited Appendix 1

3. They have been provisionally designated and are pending final designation, 2 heavily modified water bodies of category lakes.

Article 5. Identification and delimitation of groundwater bodies.

1. 90 masses of groundwater are identified and demarcated, which are listed in Appendix 2.

2. The situation and limits of the above ground water masses are available and accessible to the public through the services of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation IDE at www.chj.es, where each water mass is identified with the code referred to in Appendix 2.

3. According to the provisions of article 9.2 of the Regulation of Hydrological Planning, approved by Royal Decree 907/2007 of 6 July, it is proposed, for consideration by the National Hydrological Plan, the shared water masses with other related demarcations in Appendix 2.

Article 6. Reference conditions and class change limits

Reference conditions and status or potential class change limits for indicators to be used for the assessment of the state or potential of surface and groundwater bodies are detailed respectively in Appendices 3 and 4, all without prejudice to the fact that they may be updated or supplemented in the terms laid down in regulation.

CHAPTER 3

Environmental goals

Article 7. Environmental objectives.

1. The environmental objectives to be achieved in the water, surface and underground masses of the Júcar Hydrographic Demarcation are defined in Appendix 5.

2. Environmental objectives for protected areas should comply with the requirements of the specific protection rules that are applicable in an area and achieve the environmental objectives of the state or potential of the protected areas. determine.

3. Compliance with the environmental objectives of the water bodies within the time limits laid down to achieve them are subject to the implementation and effective development of the set of actions and temporary programming which are defined in the the program of measures of the present hydrological plan developed in Annex 10 of the Plan Memory.

4. In the specific case of the surface water mass of the Lake of the Albufera de Valencia, the public administrations, in the field of their competences, will promote the realization of a special plan whose main objective is to reach the potential ecological set out in Appendix 5.

Article 8. Temporary deterioration of the state of the water masses.

1. In a situation of temporary deterioration of the state of one or more bodies of water, the conditions under which such circumstances may be declared as rationally unforeseen or exceptional are as follows:

a) Serious floods. For these purposes, it shall be understood as such that they are established in the studies to be carried out under the programme of measures of this plan. In case of not having these studies they will be understood to be those corresponding to the avenue of return period of 25 years.

(b) Prolonged droughts, as such are those corresponding to the state of emergency laid down in the Special Plan of Action in situations of alert and eventual drought of the Júcar Basin of the Júcar approved by the Order MAM/698/2007, dated March 21.

(c) Accidents which have not been reasonably foreseen, such as occasional accidental discharges, failures in waste storage systems, fires in industries and accidents in transport. Circumstances arising from forest fires shall also be considered.

2. The conditions which for situations of temporary deterioration lay down the rules in force and in particular those provided for in Article 38.2 of the Regulation on Hydrological Planning shall be fulfilled.

3. The temporary deterioration of the state of the water bodies shall be required to complete the information sheet set out in Appendix 5.6.

4. The Júcar Hydrographic Confederation shall keep a record of the temporary deterioration taking place during the period of validity of the hydrological plan, describing and justifying the assumptions of temporary deterioration and the effects produced and indicating the measures taken both for repair and to prevent such deterioration from occurring again in the future.

Article 9. Conditions for new modifications or alterations of the state of the water masses.

1. The environmental objectives set out in this hydrological plan may be modified or altered, even if the good condition of the water bodies or, where appropriate, the deterioration of the state of the water is not achieved when the water bodies are accredited. that such modification or alteration complies with the conditions laid down in Article 39.2 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation.

2. In the case of acts declared of general interest in which the works were carried out prior to the execution of the works, the feasibility report required pursuant to Article 46.5 of the recast text of the Water Act and justified by the economic, technical, social and environmental viability of the action in the terms provided for in article 2 of the royal decree approving, it will not be necessary to carry out an additional analysis in order to prove that the new modifications or alterations fulfill the conditions laid down in Article 39.2 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation; whenever the report is inferred, its compliance.

3. For actions in which the feasibility report referred to in the preceding subparagraph has not been carried out, the sponsor shall draw up the information sheet attached to it in Appendix 5.7 to this Regulation and refer it to the competent authority accompanied by a detailed and comprehensive report so that it can be verified that the conditions laid down in Article 39.2 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation are met.

4. The Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar, for inland waters, and the relevant competent authority for coastal and transitional waters, taking into account the information contained in the information sheet and report referred to in paragraph 1. and other available information, must issue a mandatory and binding report stating that the new modifications or alterations meet the conditions set out in Article 39.2 of the Planning Regulation Hydrologic.

CHAPTER 4

Ecological flow regimes

Article 10. Scope of application.

1. In accordance with the studies carried out and the concertation process carried out, the system of ecological flows is adopted under normal conditions and under conditions of prolonged drought in the water bodies of the category of river which appear related in Appendix 6.1.

2. The characterization carried out in Annex 5 of the memory in the remaining water bodies will be taken into account in the establishment of environmental restrictions to include in new concessions and in the revision of the existing ones.

3. The system of ecological flows will be completed and updated in future reviews of this Hydrological Plan. In particular, the first review will attempt to establish a system of minimums, limiting for future concessions and in the revision of the existing one, in all the water bodies of the river category.

Article 11. Definition of the system of ecological flows under ordinary conditions.

1. In Appendix 6.1, the minimum flow component of the ecological flow rate regime is exclusively established, which constitutes a restriction on current and future uses. The rest of the components: maximum flow rates, growth rates and exchange rates are shown in Annex 5 of the report and will be taken into account in the setting of environmental restrictions to include in new concessions and in the revision of the the existing ones.

2. The minimum flow rate under ordinary conditions shall be increased according to the seasonal modulation factor of the hydroregion where the water mass is located, as indicated in Appendix 6.1.

Article 12. Definition of the ecological flow rate regime under prolonged drought conditions.

1. The minimum flow rates are defined in situations of prolonged drought in Appendix 6.1, in accordance with the provisions of Article 18.4 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, with the conditions laid down in Article 38 of the Regulation being fulfilled. Regulation of Hydrological Planning on the temporary deterioration of the state of the water masses.

2. The ecological flow scheme associated with prolonged drought situations shall not apply in the sections of the bed included in Natura 2000 areas or in the list of wetlands of international importance included in the Convention List. of Ramsar, of 2 February 1971, in accordance with Article 18.4 of the Regulation on Hydrological Planning, and on natural river reserves and special protection zones.

Article 13. Consultation and implementation of the minimum flow rate regime.

1. In the water bodies set out in Appendix 6.2, in which the minimum flow rate conditions the allocations and reserves of the plan, a process of concertation has been developed prior to the approval of the plan, the results of which are shown in Appendix 6.1.

2. The minimum flow rate system shall be applied to the entry into force of this hydrological plan, unless it is necessary to carry out certain actions under the programme of measures of the plan, in which case a transitional period until the effective implementation of the measures in accordance with the deadlines set out in the implementation schedule included in Appendix 6.3.

Article 14. Control and monitoring of the minimum flow rate regime.

1. The control and monitoring of the minimum flow rate regime shall be carried out by the Basin Agency. This control shall be carried out at the capacity stations belonging to the Official Network of the Aforo Stations and to the Network of the Automatic Hydrological Information System which are detailed in Appendix 6.1.

2. In cases where a minimum flow rate of water is to be introduced downstream of a reservoir, it may also be controlled with the dam drainage organs listed in that Appendix.

Article 15. Compliance with the minimum flow rate regime.

1. The minimum flow rate set out in Appendix 6.1 shall be met by the holders of the leverage in such a way that the flow of flows shall be limited by this restriction.

2. It is understood that the minimum flow rate regime is met when, at the control points referred to in the previous article, the following conditions are met:

(a) The average daily flow rate is greater than the minimum rate of at least 98% of the days of the hydrological year.

(b) The average daily flow rate is greater than the minimum rate of at least 95% of the days of each month.

3. They shall in any event not be required to require minimum flow rates higher than the existing natural system at any time.

Article 16. Minimum flow rates downstream of reservoirs.

1. The flow rates shall be such as to ensure compliance with the minimum flow rate at the control points downstream of the reservoirs, not being due, in general, to the minimum flow rates exceeding the level of the Natural system contributions to the reservoir itself.

2. For those cases where the drainage elements of the dams do not allow, with due security guarantees, to ensure compliance with the minimum flow rate regime, a transitional period is established until 31 December 2015. in order to bring the aforementioned drainage bodies and facilities into line in the manner necessary to enable them to satisfy the said system. In the event of duly justified technical impossibilities, an additional period of adequacy may be authorised, exceptionally, to be followed and validated in the next review of the plan.

Article 17. Water requirements for wet areas.

1. The ecological flow rate regime, in accordance with Article 18 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, includes the water requirements of the lakes and wetlands of the demarcation.

2. The present hydrological plan establishes water requirements in the surface water masses classified as lakes and wetlands of the demarcation.

3. The water needs of the lake of l' Albufera are fixed at 167 hm³/year.

4. The Basin Agency will carry out a monitoring and monitoring of the contributions to the wetlands of the Albufera, with the objective of guaranteeing the fulfillment of the required annual volumes. This monitoring and monitoring shall refer to the information provided by the specific measurement network which controls the level in the lake and the sea exits through the golas and allows the corresponding balance sheets to be carried out.

5. In the event that the monitoring carried out is inferred that it is likely that in a particular year the required annual volumes will not be met, the actions will be implemented to meet the water needs of the lake of l' Albufera, requiring control and monitoring of the effects of these actions on the same.

6. In the remaining surface water bodies classified as lakes and wetlands of the demarcation, the water requirements of the underground origin as indicated in Appendix 6 have been established, which have been taken into account to estimate the available resource of the underground water bodies.

CHAPTER 5

Use priority and compatibility

Article 18. Uses of water.

1. For the purposes of Article 12 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, the classification provided for in Article 60.3 of the recast text of the Water Act developed by Article 49a of the Domain Regulation is adopted. Hydraulic Public.

2. The use intended for the supply of urban nuclei includes the needs of water for human consumption, other domestic uses other than human consumption, municipal uses (baldeans, sources and others) and uses of industries, shops, livestock and irrigation of little water consumption, located in population centers and connected to the municipal network.

3. The purpose of the use of other supplies outside urban centres is to provide this kind of services in camping and isolated facilities such as schools, hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, penitentiary centres and shopping centres.

4. In any case, the uses for supply shall have been planned in accordance with Article 37.4.

5. The purpose of the use of irrigation is to encourage agricultural production, both arable crops and woody crops. All water requirements for crops shall be considered to be included.

6. The use intended for the attention of the livestock is the one required to meet the water needs of the cattle herd, differentiating the estabulous from the non-estabulous.

7. The purpose of the industrial use for the production of electrical energy is the production of energy by means of hydroelectric power plants (fluents, regulation or pumping) and motor power (for the direct movement of machines). integrated in an industrial process), the cooling of renewable thermal power plants (thermosolar and biomass) and the cooling of non-renewable thermal power plants (nuclear, coal and combined cycle).

8. The use for the attention of industries producing consumer goods, is the purpose of the production or supply of consumer goods in isolated industrial installations or in industrial estates.

9. It is understood as the use of leisure and tourism industries that is intended to enable this commercial activity in sports facilities (golf courses, ski slopes, water parks, sports complexes and assimilables), irrigation of parks and gardens with important water consumption, picaderies, canine nurseries and assimilables. The use of resources that could be used for the maintenance and adequacy of vedados and Fishing Cots is included within recreational uses. Finally, the use of water in industries for spa purposes is considered to be included in this use.

10. The use for the attention of extractive industries is dedicated to the supply of mining and mineral extraction industries. Includes all water uses required from the extraction process to the plant output.

11. The use of aquaculture is the purpose of covering the precise water needs for fish farming in fish farms.

12. Recreational uses are included which are not included in the above paragraphs have a public or private recreational character without any industrial or commercial activity. The attention of swimming pools and private sports facilities has a place in this concept.

13. It is understood as use for water navigation and transport, the use of water for this purpose when it entails a modification of the system of contributions or of the exploitation of reservoirs. Includes the supply to artificial or natural channels for rafting, canoeing or any other type of navigation or flotation.

14. It is understood as other uses which are not directly or indirectly included in the preceding paragraphs, nor are they comparable to those uses. Among them are the supply of isolated facilities for the fight against fires, the attention of wild fauna including the present in cotos and vedados, the artificial recharge of aquifers to recover the good state, those destined for the conservation and recovery of natural habitats and ecosystems, as well as those destined to the management of protected natural spaces. Also included in this section are water uses for the recovery of degraded spaces, ecosystems and habitats.

Article 19. Order of preference for uses.

1. The following order of preference is established between the different uses of water for all systems of exploitation of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Sugar, taking into account the requirements for the protection and conservation of the resource and its environment:

a) Population supply.

b) Regadios and agricultural uses.

c) Industrial uses for energy production.

d) Other industrial uses not included in the previous section.

e) Aquaculture.

f) Navigation and water transport.

g) Recreational uses.

h) Other uses.

In the case of refrigeration of the Cofronts nuclear power plant, preference will be given to the use of agricultural use.

2. The uses classified in Article 18.14 as 'other uses', in the case of environmental action, shall be of priority in relation to the rest, with the exception of population supply. Specific legislation, inter alia, that of forest fires, civil protection, protected species or conservation of aquatic ecosystems and wetlands shall apply to such uses.

3. The order of preference set out in paragraph 1 above shall apply in the allocation and reserve of resources, for the purposes of granting concessions, in contracts for the temporary transfer of rights and for the compulsory expropriation of a the granting of another use which precedes it in accordance with the order laid down, without prejudice to Article 4 (2) for waste water treatment.

4. In general, requests for use in the operating system where the resource is generated shall be preferred over those which use it in other areas, without prejudice to the provisions of the articles on allocation and reserve resources.

5. In the supply of population, for the purposes of granting concessions, they must have been planned in accordance with Article 37.4, and the requests concerning mancommunes, consortia or integrated systems of the municipalities, as well as initiatives to replace groundwater with quality problems due to surface water or groundwater of adequate quality.

6. For the purposes of granting concessions, the following are considered to be consolidated as requested or processed before 1 January 1997.

7. In the field of irrigation and agricultural use, the granting of concessions shall be preferred:

(a) The use of the use of any of the waterings registered in the Private Water Catalogue, or, where appropriate, consolidated.

b) You will be followed in order of preference for existing and unconsolidated benefits, which are declared of general interest.

c) In the new transformations and in the expansion of existing benefits, they will have a preference for those declared of general interest.

d) Among the benefits to be used for new irrigation will be those of marked social and economic character.

8. In industrial uses for the production of electrical energy, the preference in granting concessions will be for those taking advantage expressly defined in the national energy planning of the competent bodies.

9. In the case of other industrial uses, the granting of concession will be preferred by those who behave less water consumption by generated employment and gross added value produced, as well as less environmental impact.

10. As a general rule, within each class, and equal to the other conditions, priority shall be given to granting concessions to:

(a) The actions that are directed towards a water saving policy and a more efficient use of the water resource and incorporate the best techniques to achieve an improvement of their quality along with the recovery of the environmental values and that have, in short, a lower environmental impact.

b) The joint and coordinated exploitation of all available resources.

c) Projects of a public, community and cooperative nature, as opposed to individual initiatives.

11. Regardless of the concessional membership of each user to a specific regulatory element, the Basin Agency, or the Dereservoir Commission, may meet the demands that arise from any infrastructure, maintaining in any case the order of priority, as set out above.

Article 20. Usage compatibility criteria.

1. In general, other uses are compatible with those which do not involve a consumption of the available resources or a lack of quality which would damage or prevent the use of such resources by subsequent uses or which result in deterioration. of the state of the water masses.

2. They are compatible with the use of population supply, with the following exceptions:

(a) Agricultural use as long as the available resources are sufficient and do not result in a quality of the supply sources on which the supply depends.

b) Production of hydroelectric power: Provided that the turban water is that of the consumption for the supply and be realized in case of need an counter-reservoir of storage or modulation.

c) Aquaculture: Provided that the return of aquaculture facilities does not worsen the quality of water required for supply.

(d) Non-contact recreational (river fishing, rowing, sailing, or electric motor), with the exception of the navigation of an explosion engine (petrol or diesel).

(e) Recreational with contact (bath), provided that such activity is carried out at an appropriate distance from the intake, in such a way that it is ensured by the proper conditions of the channel that the auto-scrubber effect is sufficient for the Water quality is not affected.

3. The following uses are compatible with agricultural uses, with the exception of the following:

(a) Production of hydroelectric power, provided that it is carried out when ancillary works of regulation or modulation are necessary.

b) Aquaculture.

c) Recreational, except for the limitations of motor navigation in the case of small capacity reservoirs.

4. In any other case not previously contemplated, the Basin Agency shall resolve in accordance with the above criteria.

Article 21. Public Utility Statement.

1. In accordance with Article 94 of the Regulation on Hydraulic Public Domain, in addition to the water concessions for the supply of population, which shall be implied by the declaration of public utility, they may be declared useful publishes those water concessions which, in other words, meet the following conditions:

(a) That the benefits have been declared in the general interest.

b) That the actions have been included in the program of measures of the hydrological plan.

2. The declaration of public utility is relevant for the purposes of the compulsory expropriation of the lower-ranking benefits in the order of preference set out in Article 19.1. It will be requested by the grant petitioner in the terms provided for in Article 106 of the Hydraulic Public Domain Regulation.

CHAPTER 6

Appropriations and resource reservations

Article 22. General considerations for resource allocation and reserve.

1. The resources available in the operating systems are allocated taking into account natural resources, demands and rights to water use, infrastructure, priorities, management rules and the guarantee criteria defined in the 3 and 6 of the memory of the present hydrological plan. In general, the resources available for existing use are allocated, and their consolidation is pursued as a generic objective.

2. Consideration as an available resource for regenerated volumes from the reuse of purified waste water will require the prior fulfilment of the required quality parameters for the different uses for which they are intended. those waters.

3. The reserves of resources in anticipation of the demands to be met in order to achieve the objectives of the hydrological planning may be conditioned to the materialization of certain actions contemplated in the program of measures of the plan.

4. Resource allocations and reserves are conditional upon compliance with the ecological flows reflected in Appendix 6.

5. In the areas located within the territory of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar, which traditionally came under the resources of the Segura Hydrographic Demarcation, the allocation of resources in the hydrological planning is carried out Coordinated form among the Basin Organizations of the Júcar and Segura Hydrographic Confederations, leaving this assignment finally subject to what, if any, decides on the National Hydrological Plan.

6. The reserves that are set out in this regulation are reserved on behalf of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation.

7. These reserves shall be entered in the Water Register after the approval of this hydrological plan. At the moment, the communities of users, public bodies or individuals may request the granting of the reserved resources, which will be granted by the Hydrographic Confederation of the Sugar. As the corresponding new concessions are granted, partial cancellation of the reserves will be carried out.

8. The operating rules referred to in paragraph (D) of the following Articles shall be approved by the Governing Board and shall be drawn up in accordance with the technical studies available at the Basin Agency and those other which can be promoted by the Commission on Hydrological Planning and Citizen Participation.

9. The demand units referred to in the following articles are defined in Annex 3 of the memory. In the case of unspecified units of demand, they must be satisfactorily met in accordance with the general criteria laid down in this legislation.

10. Low-importance uses are understood to require an annual volume of less than 15,000 m³.

11. The use of hydroelectric power shall be satisfactorily addressed in terms determined by its current situation, subject to compliance with the ecological flows set out in Appendix 6.

Article 23. Definition of operating systems.

1. The territory of the Júcar Hydrographic Demarcation is functionally divided into the following resource exploitation systems:

a) Cenia-Master System.

b) System Mijare-Plana of Castellón.

c) Palance-The Valleys System.

d) Turia System.

e) Sugar System.

f) Serpis System.

g) High Marine System.

h) Low Marine System.

i) Vinalopo-Alacanti System.

2. The geographical scope of the previously listed resource exploitation systems is the one indicated in the following figure. The relevant geospatial entities are available to the public through the services of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation IDE at www.chj.es.

3. A single operating system is defined in which, in a simplified manner, all previous operating systems are included and with which the overall performance analysis is possible throughout the Júcar Hydrographic Demarcation.

4. The management of the connections between the Júcar, Turia, Palancia-Los Valles and Vinalopo-Alacanti operating systems shall be in accordance with the operating rules laid down in this hydrological plan.

Article 24. Senia-Maestrazgo System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The comprehensive use of resources will be promoted with the double objective of reducing underground extractions and maintaining supply, thereby improving the state of the corresponding underground water bodies and the guarantee of the various uses.

B) Assignments.

1. Of the water resources available in the Cenia River, the following volumes are allocated for irrigation.

a) With respect to the Ribereños Regadios of the Cenia, an allocation of surface and underground surface resources of up to 4.3 hm³/year is established.

b) With respect to the Ulldecone Reservoir Regadios, an allocation of surface resources regulated by the Ulldecone reservoir is established up to 8.5 hm³/year.

C) Reservations.

1. In order to ensure in the future an adequate quality of water of supply in the populations and to improve the quantitative status of the underground water masses of the Plana de Vinaroz and the Plana de Oropesa-Torreblanca, it will tend to the extent of possible to replace the groundwater used for the urban supply of the populations by water from the desalination and the masses of the groundwater in good condition, and the future growths with this type of resources.

2. Without prejudice to other possible alternative solutions, up to 17 hm³/year from the Oropesa desalination plant are reserved, with the aim of replacing underground pumps in the urban demand units of underground Maestrazgo Oriental, Consortium of Pla de l' Arc Water, Underground of Oropesa-Torreblanca, Subways of Plana de Castellón, Subways of Castellón de la Plana and Consortium of Water of the Plana and, in addition, to ensure the future growths urban units of these units as well as the industries of the area.

3. 4 hm³/year are reserved from the wells of the underground water bodies of Beceite Ports and East Maestrazgo for the replacement of pumps in the underground water bodies of the Vinaroz and the Plana de la Plana de la Plana de Oropesa-Torreblanca, used for the urban supply of coastal populations.

4. 3 hm³/year is reserved in the underground water bodies of Beceite Ports and Western Maestrazgo to meet future urban growth in the urban demand units of the Cenia-Maestrazgo system, as well as the industries of the zone.

5. Reserve a maximum regenerated volume of 4 hm³/year, from the Peniscola EDAR, with the purpose of replacing pumps in the underground water masses of the Vinaroz Plana and the Oropesa-Torreblanca Plana for the Regadios de Vinaroz-Peniscola.

6. Reserve a volume of up to 2 hm³/year of regulated resources in the Ulldecone reservoir, conditioned to the materialization of the actions of modernization of the Regadios del reservoir of Ulldecona, to attend to the uses that exceed its allocation and address possible extensions of its regable zone.

Article 25. System Mijare-Plana de Castellón.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The surface water resources of the Mijare-Plana system in Castellón are assigned to the currently existing agricultural and hydroelectric uses, within the framework established in the 1970 Riegos Convention and considering that the curve established in This agreement must take into account the joint volume of the Arenos and Sichar reservoirs, as well as future supplies from the municipalities of the Plana de Castellón.

2. The joint use of surface water and groundwater for mixed regadios will be promoted, thus improving system management and the recovery of groundwater bodies.

3. In the same way, the comprehensive use of resources will be promoted with the aim of reducing underground extractions, thus improving the state of the corresponding groundwater bodies and increasing the guarantee of the various uses, further enabling the establishment of an appropriate ecological flow rate regime in the Lower Mijares.

4. In addition to the following paragraphs and with the aim of improving the quantitative status of the groundwater masses, underground resources with surface resources of the Mijares can be replaced by the provided for in Article 69 of the recast text of the Water Act.

B) Assignments.

1. Of the water resources of the Mijare-Plana system of Castellón, the following allocations are established:

a) 21 hm³/year of underground resources for the urban supply of the underground urban demand unit of Castellón de la Plana are allocated.

b) With respect to the traditional Mijares River regadios, an allocation of 69 hm³/year of surface resources is established.

c) With respect to mixed waterings, some assignments are set:

i. 42 hm³/year for the Cota 100 Channel regadios, of which they may be of surface origin 29.4 hm³/year at most.

ii. 19.9 hm³/year for the Cota 220 Canal regadios, of which they may be of surface origin 13.9 hm³/year at most.

iii. 17.1 hm³/year for the irrigation of the Maria Cristina reservoir from the resources regulated in this reservoir, of the surface resources of the Mijares River with a maximum of 12 hm³/year, of the regenerated waters of the EDAR Castellón with a maximum of 2.4 hm³/year and from groundwater, with a maximum of 6.7 hm³/year, prioritizing, whenever there is availability of resources, the surface origin in front of the underground.

d) A total allocation of 13.6 hm³/year is established for the Vall d' Uixo regadios. This allocation comes from underground resources, surface resources of the San José spring and regenerated resources, with a maximum of:

i. 11 hm³/year of underground resources, which shall be reduced by the use of the resources referred to in paragraph C), with the aim of achieving the value of the available resource of the sector known as the aquifer of the Rambleta in the underground water mass of the Plana de Castellón.

ii. 1.1 hm³/year of surface resources from the San Jose spring.

iii. 1.5 hm³/year of regenerated resources from the EDAR of Vall d' Uixo.

e) A total allocation of 7.8 hm³/year is established for the Moncofa regadios. This allocation comes from underground resources which must be reduced by the use of the resources set aside in paragraph C), with the aim of achieving the value of the resource available in the sector known as the aquifer. Rambleta.

C) Reservations.

1. Upstream of the Arenos reservoir, 10 hm³ annual surface and underground resources are reserved for urban and industrial supply, small new irrigation and development of tourist activities in the Sierras of Gudar and Javwire with the objective of the demographic maintenance of the area. In the previous reservation, the resources regulated by the Mora de Rubielos dam are considered.

2. To ensure in the future an adequate quality of the water supply in the populations of the Plana de Castellón and to improve the quantitative status of the underground water mass of the Plana de Castellón, as far as possible it will tend to replace the groundwater used for urban supply in the Plana by surface water of the Mijares River and by water from desalination.

3. Up to 10 hm³/year of the Mijares River is reserved for the replacement of the groundwater used for the urban and industrial supply of the towns of the Plana de Castellón. This substitution shall be carried out with surface resources previously intended for irrigation, after the corresponding potabilization, without producing variation in the overall balance sheets of the operating system.

4. Without prejudice to other possible alternative solutions, 8 hm³/year from the desalination of Moncofa is reserved, with the aim of replacing underground pumps in the urban demand units of the Water Consortium of the Plana and to ensure future growth, both urban and area industries.

5. To meet future growth in the rest of the urban and industrial demand units of the Mijare-Plana system of Castellón, a reserve of 2 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies in good condition of the system of exploitation.

6. A maximum regenerated volume of 12 hm³/year is reserved to improve the guarantee of the traditional irrigation of the Mijares River, from the EDAR of Castellón. This volume shall be used in drought conditions, as a matter of priority for other uses, in accordance with the rules for operating the system.

7. Reserve a maximum regenerated volume of 9 hm³/year, from the EDAR of Castellón and 1 hm³/year of the EDAR of Moncofa to meet the regadios of Vall d' Uixo and Moncofa and with the purpose of replacing pumps in the aquifer the Rambleta.

8. To cater for new uses of minor importance in the system, a reserve of surface and underground resources of 1 hm³/year is established, additional to that set out in previous paragraphs.

9. The allocations of traditional and mixed Mijares waterings can be used, the superficial surplus of the Mijares, estimated in average in this hydrological plan in 2 hm³/year with a maximum annual derivation of 7, can be used. hm³, to replace part of the underground resources used by the Vall d' Uixo and Moncofa regadios, in accordance with the operating rules of the system and with the conditions set out in paragraph D of this Article.

D) Conditions.

1. The Basin Agency shall develop rules for operating the system with the aim of maintaining the guarantees of traditional irrigation and incorporating the use of non-conventional resources into the management of the system.

Article 26. Palancia-Los Valles System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. Within the existing uses, with the exception of the supply, higher priority is given to the Greater Acequia of Sagunto and to the CR of Segorbe.

2. The use of the water resources of the Palance system by users of the system will be promoted, with preference to new resources from the Júcar system.

3. Also to improve the state of the underground water masses will promote the joint use of surface water and groundwater favoring the incorporation of underground users into the communities of surface waterings existing.

4. The recharge of the Algar reservoir leaks will make it possible to improve the quantitative status of the groundwater mass of the Middle Palancy.

5. The resources referred to in Law 14/1987 of 30 July, coming from the Júcar river and destined for the area, will be allocated exclusively for the satisfaction of urban and industrial uses in the area of Sagunto.

B) Assignments.

1. The following assignments are set:

a) 18.7 hm³/year for urban supply (13.8 hm³/year) and industrial (4.9 hm³/year) of Sagunto and its area of influence, of which 17.1 hm³/year come from surface resources of the Júcar and the rest of the underground resources of the own wells of the municipalities integrated in the Water Supply Consortium of the Camp de Morvedre.

b) 22 hm³/year of surface, regenerated and underground resources for the demands of the Greater Sagunto Acequia by proceeding, at most, up to 18 hm³/year of surface resources regulated by the reservoir of Regajo and 4 hm³/year of the Sagunto EDAR. Their demand, if any, with underground resources from the underground water body Plana de Sagunto, may be completed.

c) 4.9 hm³/year, of surface resources regulated by the reservoir of Reggarlic and subways from spring of Hope, for the attention of the demands corresponding to the regadios of the C.R. of Segorbe.

d) 4.6 hm³/year of surface water resources of the Palance and 4.2 hm³/year of underground resources, for the attention of the downstream Regadios of the reservoir of El Regajo.

e) 18.4 hm³/year of underground resources for the demands of the small Regadios of the Morvedre Camp.

C) Reservations.

1. A reserve of 14.4 hm³/year is established for the urban and industrial supply of Sagunto and its area of influence, additional to the current concessions of 18.7 hm³/year, which can be used to replace the sources of current supply and ensure future urban and industrial growth. In addition to this reserve of surface resources of the Júcar River, they will also be reserved for other substitutions, environmental improvements or future developments the following resources:

a) Up to a maximum volume of 8 hm³/year of desalinated resources from the Sagunto installation.

b) Up to a maximum volume of 3 hm³/year of winter surface resources of the Palancia River.

If the future national hydrological planning changes the reserve established by Law 14/1987 of July 30, the aforementioned additional volumes reserved in the system, up to 11 hm³/year, could be applied, in their case, to supplement or partially replace the said legal assignment.

2. To meet future urban and industrial growth in the rest of the urban and industrial demand units of the Palancia-Los Valles system, a reserve of 1 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies in good condition of the system. operating.

3. A maximum regenerated volume of 2 hm³/year is reserved from the Sagunto EDAR (1 hm³/year) and the Berenguer Canet (1 hm³/year), to enable the improvement of the underground water masses of the Sagunto Plana.

4. Reserve a volume of 1.5 hm³/year of the Segorbe EDAR to improve the guarantees of the C.R. of Segorbe.

5. To cater for new uses of minor importance in the system, a reserve of surface and underground resources of 0.5 hm³/year is established, additional to that set out in previous sections.

6. The previous allocations and reserves of surface resources may be used up to 7 hm³/year of the possible surface surpluses of the Palancia River, estimated at 3 hm³/year on average, to replace part of the underground resources used in the small irrigated areas of Camp de Morvedre.

Article 27. Turia system.

A) Basic criteria.

1. Within the existing uses, with the exception of the supply, the highest priority is given to the traditional irrigation (Pueblos Castillo, Real Acequia de Moncada and the Vega de Valencia), considering that this priority is the material expression and legal status of its historical character.

2. Once these needs have been met and those of the Gestalgar, Bugarra, Pedralba and Loriguilla regadios, the necessary resources are allocated for the maintenance and consolidation of the mixed waterings served by the Camp Turia Canal.

3. It is considered a regable area of the Camp del Turia, as provided for in the Coordinated Plan of Works, approved by Order of 29 October 1985 in application of Decree 2688/1970, of 20 August, and of Royal Decree 1627/1981, of 8 May.

4. The joint use of surface and groundwater for the mixed regadios of the Camp del Turia will be promoted, thus improving the management of the system and the recovery of the groundwater masses.

B) Assignments.

1. 2.8 hm³/year of surface resources regulated by the San Blas reservoir for urban and industrial supply of Teruel are allocated.

2. 31.5 hm³/year is allocated to the Valencia City Council for joint management in the current field of EMSHI to meet the supply of Valencia and its metropolitan area, from surface resources of the Turia River (950 l/s) and of subalveas (650 l/s), for their joint use, in accordance with the provisions of the current concessions.

3. 12 hm³/year of surface resources are allocated for the High Turia Riegos upstream of the Benageber reservoir, of which 2 hm³/year correspond to resources regulated by the San Blas reservoir reservoir for the Community de Regantes de Teruel.

4. The allocation of resources to the regadios located downstream of the Benageber-Loriguilla reservoir system is established as follows:

a) With respect to traditional waterings, a few assignments are established:

i. Up to a maximum of 68 hm³/year of surface resources resources for the regadios de la Vega de Valencia (Tribunal de las Aguas). The above volume may be limited to 58 hm³/year in the application periods of the tank.

ii. Up to a maximum of 70 hm³/year of surface resources for the regadios of the Royal Equeia de Moncada. The above volume may be limited to 61 hm³/year in the application periods of the tank.

iii. Up to a maximum of 42 hm³/year of surface resources for the regadios of Pueblos Castillo. The above volume may be limited to 36 hm³/year in the application periods of the tank.

(b) The periods of application of the tank shall be laid down in the operating rules referred to in paragraph (D) of this Article.

c) 3.1 hm³/year of surface resources is allocated for the Gestalgar, Bugarra, Pedralba, and Loriguilla regadios.

d) With respect to mixed waterings attended from the Turia Canal, total resources are allocated up to a maximum of 100 hm³/year, with an estimated average value of 84 hm³/year, which may be of origin surface up to a maximum of 75 hm³/year, which must be increased up to 100 hm³/year as savings are generated in the Turia system as a result of the modernization of the regadios.

e) With respect to the regadios of the Gold Acequia, a total volume of 32.2 hm³/year is assigned, which will proceed, in the first order of priority of the EDAR of Pinedo, being able this volume to be supplemented with flows of the Turkey is authorised to take over in case of failure or low quality, in accordance with its current concession.

C) Reservations.

1. In the headwaters of the Turia and Alfambra rivers, upstream of the Benageber reservoir, 9 hm³/year of surface and underground resources are reserved for supply increases, as well as for small new irrigation and development tourism and industrial activities in the Sierras de Albarracin, Gudar and Javwire with the objective of the demographic maintenance of the area. In the previous reservation, the resources regulated by the future dam of the Alcamines are considered to be included.

2. A reserve of 1.6 hm³/year is established with the control of the San Blas reservoir reservoir, in addition to the allocation of 2.8 hm³/year for the urban and industrial supply of Teruel and its area of influence, and ensure, together with groundwater resources, a total of 4.4 hm³/year for the current and future supply of the city.

3. An additional reserve of 31.5 hm³/year (1 m³/s) is established in addition to the current concessions of surface and subalvees of the Turia, for the current and future supply of Valencia and municipalities in its area metropolitan.

4. The previous reservation could be realized taking into account both the current availability of resources and the new sources.

5. To meet future urban and industrial growth in the Turia system, a reserve of 6 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies of the system that are in good condition.

6. In order to ensure adequate quality of water supply in the towns of the Camp del Turia in the future and to improve the quantitative status of the groundwater mass of Liria-Casinos, the groundwater used for this purpose may be replaced. the urban supply of the populations by surface water of the Turia river, up to a maximum of 10 hm³/year, to the extent that additional resources are generated regulated by the Loriguilla reservoir when increasing its current capacity or from the modernization of irrigation in the Turia system.

7. To ensure the urban supply of the towns of Chiva, Cheste and Godelleta and improve the quantitative status of the underground water mass of Bunol-Cheste, the groundwater used may be replaced, up to a maximum of 5 ³/year, for surface resources of the Turia as they generate additional resources regulated by the Loriguilla reservoir by increasing their current capacity or from the modernization of irrigation in the Turia system.

8. To meet the irrigation demands of the Hoya de Bunol-Cheste (Cheste, Chiva and Godelleta Regant Communities) and improve the quantitative status of the Bunol-Cheste groundwater mass, they reserve up to a maximum of 15 hm³/year to replace groundwater used by resources from underground water bodies in good quantitative status.

9. To cater for new uses of minor importance in the system, a reserve of surface and underground resources of 1 hm³/year is established, additional to that set out in previous paragraphs.

10. Reserve a maximum regenerated volume of up to 25 hm³/year from the Pinedo EDAR (4 hm³/year), Carraixet Watersheds (7 hm³/year), Quart-Benager (13 hm³/year) and Paterna-Fuente del Jarro (1 hm³/year) to replace surface resources of the Turia used by the regadios de la Vega de Valencia.

11. Reserve a maximum regenerated volume of up to 11 hm³/year from the EDAR of the Nord-Pobla Horta of Farnals (9 hm³/year) and Paterna-Fuente del Jarro (2 hm³/year) to replace surface resources of the Turia used by the regadios of the Royal Moncada Acequia.

12. Reserve a maximum regenerated volume of up to 3 hm³/year from the EDAR of Bunol, Cheste and Chiva to replace underground resources used by the Bunol-Cheste Hoya irrigation.

D) General conditions.

1. The Basin Agency shall develop rules for the operation of the system with the aim of maintaining the guarantees of traditional irrigation and incorporating into the management of the system the use of non-conventional resources from reuse and the start of the irrigation tank.

Article 28. System Jucar.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The allocation and reserve of the resources of the Júcar River is formulated and structured according to the following general criteria:

a) The available resources are allocated to existing uses, following the generic objective of the consolidation of such uses with preference to new future developments. To do this:

i. Within the existing uses, leaving aside the supply, the highest priority is given to the traditional irrigation of the Ribera del Júcar, considering that such priority is the material and legal expression of its historical character.

ii. Once these needs have been met, the necessary resources will be allocated for the maintenance and consolidation of the waterings served with the underground water mass of the Eastern Channel, as well as those with the Júcar-Turia Canal.

iii. The rest of the irrigated areas of the basin and small supplies, industries or scattered irrigation must be satisfactorily addressed in the technical and legal terms that determine their current situation.

iv. The surplus resources, including savings from the irrigation modernization of the Júcar, will be used to alleviate the overexploitation of aquifers and the supply deficit in the area of the Vinalopo-Alacanti and Marina Baja. In order not to reduce the guarantees for other users of the Júcar operating system, the Basin Agency shall draw up the operating rules referred to in paragraph D of this Article and define the nature of the operation. of surplus resources.

b) The resources required for the attention of future uses are reserved, taking into account for this both the current availability of resources, once satisfied all the existing uses, and those that are generated as consequences of the actions of savings, reuse, improvement of infrastructure or possible increases in regulation.

(c) The general operating conditions of the system to be fulfilled in order to enable the above allocations and reserves, as well as the operating rules to govern the compatibility of the system, are set out in point D the uses and good management of the resources in accordance with the provisions of the Special Alert and Eventual Drought Plan.

B) Assignments.

1. The following allocations of surface resources for urban and industrial supply are established:

a) 24 hm³/year for the urban and industrial supply of Albacete and its area of influence, which may be partially substituted with resources from underground extraction in situations of drought.

b) 17.1 hm³/year for urban supply (12.2 hm³/year) and industrial (4.9 hm³/year) of Sagunto and its area of influence.

c) 126 hm³/year (4 m³/s) for the current and future supply of Valencia and municipalities in its metropolitan area, for joint management in the current field of EMSHI, as stipulated in the current concessions.

d) Up to 10 hm³/year of surface resources of the Júcar to replace underground resources with quality problems that are used in the supply of the populations of the Ribera del Júcar. This replacement will be carried out with surface resources previously intended for irrigation and which will be replaced by the corresponding underground resources released, using the drought wells that already have the infrastructure. of interconnection with the irrigated area, without producing variation in the overall balance sheets of the Júcar operating system. The cost associated with the replacement will be financed by the benefit users.

(e) The provisions of the preceding paragraph are without prejudice to a possible allocation without replacement of part of the volume referred to above, depending on the availability of the system.

2. The allocation of surface resources to the traditional watering of the Júcar of the Júcar is established as follows:

a) With respect to the High Ribera, allocations are set for:

i. 214.2 hm³/year of surface resources for the Royal Sugar Acequia and the particular Antella Aceia.

ii. 13 hm³/year of surface resources for the Real Acequia de Carcaixent.

iii. 20.9 hm³/year of surface resources for the Sumacarcer, Defense, Carcer Valley, and Real Acequia Regants Communities.

b) With respect to the Lower Ribera the following allocations are set:

i. 26 hm³/year of surface resources for the Community of Four Peoples Regents, of which 16 hm³ correspond to summer regadios (May to August), 3 hm³ to winter regadios (septibre-april) and 7 hm³ as the winter environmental flow, destined for the Cullera Estany (right-hand side of the Júcar).

ii. 171 hm³/year of surface resources for the Community of Swedish Regants, of which 128 hm³ correspond summer irrigation, 14 hm³ to winter irrigation and 29 hm³ to the winter environmental flow, with destination to the area of the Parque Natural de l' Albufera (left margin of the Júcar).

iii. 79 hm³/year of surface resources for the Community of Cullera Regants, of which 55 hm³ correspond to summer irrigation, 8 hm³ to winter irrigation, and 16 hm³ to the winter environmental flow, which 4 hm³ are destined for the area of the Natural Park of the Albufera (left margin of the Júcar) and 12 hm³ with the destination l' Estany de Cullera (right margin of the Júcar).

iv. All previous environmental flows have an exclusive distribution over the non-summer 8 months (September to April) with a 20% share in October and March and 10% for the rest of months.

3. For the rest of traditional waterings and other existing uses in the middle and middle stretch of the Júcar and Cabriel rivers are allocated 40 hm³/year.

4. 5 hm³/year of surface resources are allocated for supplies and small new irrigation in the province of Cuenca, with the social purpose of demographic maintenance.

5. The allocation of surface resources to the mixed irrigation of the Jucar-Turia Canal is estimated at 95 hm³/year, which corresponds to the existing water rights.

6. A maximum of 320 hm³/year of underground resources is allocated to the regable zone of the Eastern Channel.

7. The allocation of surface resources for the replacement of pumps in the regable zone of the Eastern Channel is fixed at a maximum of 80 hm³/year, additional to the previous allocation.

8. The sum of the allocations in paragraphs 6 and 7 above is less than 460 hm³/year of water rights in the region of the Eastern Channel region.

9. In order to achieve the good quantitative status of the groundwater mass of the Eastern Channel in the year 2027, the volume of the groundwater extractions set out in paragraph 6 shall be gradually reduced to 260%. hm³/year.

10. The basic criteria for giving water rights from this resource allocation are:

(a) The administrative procedure for the registration of the uses of groundwater of the Eastern Channel aquifer prior to the entry into force of the Law of Waters will be completed, as indicated in the Law, any case of its content limited to what is set out in the plan of operation.

b) The regularization of the irrigated areas transformed after the entry into force of the Law of Waters, and prior to the date of 1 January 1997, through the processing of the corresponding concession and with the limitations which, where appropriate, establish the operating plan.

(c) No new groundwater concessions may be authorised for irrigation which are not considered to be consolidated in accordance with the definition of Article 19, except those which do not result in an increase in the volume of extraction and the envelope is compatible with the requirements set out in Appendix 7. It is established as an exception to this principle that an increase in the volume of extraction is provided, where they are covered by the reserves set out in paragraph C of this Article.

11. The operation of the underground water body in the Eastern Channel, as well as the replacement, must be carried out in an orderly manner by the establishment of an annual operating plan as referred to in paragraph D of this Article. Article to ensure the future viability of the use of the area.

12. The resources of the Albaida River are allocated to the demands of the river basin, and the returns and surpluses can be used to satisfy the needs and demands of the system.

13. All the surface resources of the Magro River are allocated to current and future uses in the river basin. The regable area to meet the resources regulated by the Forata reservoir is all over the Júcar-Turia Canal, considering that the one below (Masalet, Aledua and Carlet) is treated with flows from the aforementioned Jucar-Turia Channel, in accordance with existing concessions.

14. The increase in regulation produced by the Cortes system is assigned to the cooling needs of the Cofronts Nuclear Power Plant, with a maximum conuntive volume of 20 hm³/year.

15. An annual maximum volume of 80 hm³ is allocated that can be allocated to the Vinalopo-Alacanti and Marina Baja area, of which at least 12 hm³ will proceed from unallocated surface resources generated in tributaries of the River Júcar. down from Tous. This allocation shall be made in accordance with the terms set out in paragraph A. 1.a.iv.

16. The underground and surface resources existing in the system, and not explicitly mentioned in the previous paragraphs, are allocated to their current urban, industrial and agricultural uses. In the case of underground resources, allocations shall be limited to the available resources of the groundwater bodies, collected in the memory of this hydrological plan or subsequent updates thereof.

C) Reservations.

1. It establishes a reserve of surface resources of the Júcar River of 7.5 hm³/year, additional to the current allocation of 24 hm³/year, for the urban and industrial supply, current and future, of Albacete and its area of influence.

2. A reserve of 21.5 hm³/year of surface resources of the Júcar River, additional to the allocation of 10 hm³/year, is established for the supply of the populations of the High and Low Júcar Riberas.

3. A reserve of surface resources of the Júcar River of 31.5 hm³/year (1 m³/s) is established, in addition to the allocation of 126 hm³/year, for the current and future supply of Valencia and municipalities in its area metropolitan.

4. It establishes a reserve of surface resources of the Júcar River of 14.6 hm³/year, additional to the allocation of 17.1 hm³/year, for the urban and industrial supply of Sagunto and its area of influence.

5. A reserve of 100 hm³/year of surface resources of the Júcar river, linked to the completion of the replacement of pumps provided for in B. 7, is established for the consolidation of irrigation in the Eastern Channel (Albacete-Cuenca) and for the possible the development of new regadios provided for in Decree 2325/1975 and Royal Decree 950/1989, as well as for partially servicing the water rights granted to the underground resources in the Eastern Channel irrigation. This reserve shall be reduced to 80 hm³/year as the contributions provided for in Article 33.2.b are available.

6. The reservations set out in the above points may be materialized after the allocations are met, linked to the availability of new resources.

7. A total maximum reserve of 25 hm³/year of surface and underground resources is established for urban and industrial supplies and irrigation in the province of Cuenca, with the social purpose of demographic maintenance.

8. 6 hm³/year of underground resources of the underground water mass of the Jurassic of Una is reserved for future growth in the urban demand unit of Cuenca Subways and the area industry, 4.5 hm³/year of underground resources of the groundwater mass of Requena-Utiel to meet future growth in the urban demand unit of the Requena Subways and the area industry and 4.5 hm³/year of underground mass resources South Valencia's Plana underground water to meet future growth in the unit of urban demand for Ribera's Surfaces, provided that the quality of the waters permits this use, and of the industry in the area.

9. To meet future growth in the remaining urban and industrial demand units of the Júcar system, a reserve of 6 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies in good condition of the operating system.

10. To cater for new uses of minor importance in the system, a reserve of surface and underground resources of 2 hm³/year is established, additional to that set out in previous sections.

11. Once the reserves mentioned in the previous paragraphs have materialized, in view of the hypothesis that additional resources could be made available as a result of improvements and modernizations, financed by the General Administration of the State, or as As a result of external contributions currently not foreseen, these additional resources are reserved for the application of a comparable proportionality between the Autonomous Community of Castilla-La Mancha and the Valencian Community.

D) General conditions.

1. The provisions of this Plan will not in any case undermine the rights of the Trade Union Unit of the Sugar Users with respect to the Alarcón reservoir. Any use of the Alarcón Reservoir for the optimized and unitary management of the entire Júcar System must comply with the provisions of the specific Convention on the Alarcón Reservoir between the Trade Union Unit of the Júcar (USJ) and the Ministry of the Environment on 23 July 2001, the full text of which is set out in Annex 9 of the Report or in the provision which may be replaced by agreement between the parties to the Convention in the future.

2. Within a maximum period of six months from the date of approval of this hydrological plan, the Basin Agency shall develop the rules for the exploitation of the Júcar system according to the following criteria:

(a) The surface resources of the system will be managed in a unitary manner by reference to the volumes stored in the Alarcón, Contreras, Tous and Bellus reservoirs, the contributions to the system and the quantitative status of the underground water bodies.

b) For a greater rationality in the management of the system the loose of the reservoirs will preferably be carried out with the following order: a) of the reservoir of Tous and Bellus and b) of the reservoirs of Alarcón and Contreras. In each of the two groups of previous reservoirs the order in the loose shall take into account the percentage of filling of each reservoir with respect to its seasonal capacity, as well as the water demands and the established ecological flow rate.

(c) The management of the operating system will affect existing uses and will apply different restrictions on supply, as well as the possible use of extraordinary resources, depending on the stage of the operation. operating system (pre-alert, alert and emergency) having as a reference the system of indicators of the Alert Plan and Eventual Drought in force.

(d) The priorities and allocations for existing uses set out in this hydrological plan shall be taken into account. To do this, the standards will take into account the demand units of the systems, setting a tiered supply regime, aimed at ensuring the highest satisfaction of the demands and the fulfillment of their environmental requirements.

e) The rules must in any case ensure the preference of urban supplies and contemplate the various allocations provided for in this plan through a system of priorities and supplies, rational and staggered, oriented compliance with the technical guarantees defined in the Water Planning Instruction.

Specifically the rules will have to address both the Convention on the Alarcón Reservoir held between the Ministry of the Environment and the Trade Union Unit of the Sugar Users on July 23, 2001, as the operating plan the annual mass of groundwater in the Eastern Channel, as well as the current Special Plan for Alert and Eventual Drought of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Sugar.

(f) The rules will be formulated in a simple way, based on available and accessible indicators, such as packed stocks, piezometric levels and recorded contributions. For maximum transparency and public knowledge, the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation will apply the rules procedures and will display the results on its website on a monthly basis, also giving an account of the degree of compliance and of any incidents that might occur.

3. The Basin Agency shall draw up an annual operating plan for the underground mass of the Eastern Channel, with the collaboration of the users of that mass and binding on all of them, according to the following criteria:

a) It will progressively adapt the current situation of the groundwater mass to a sustainable state of balance between available resources and extractions.

(b) It shall establish, globally and/or sectorially, the percentage of the annual exploitation in respect of the volume of groundwater rights, as well as the substitutions of subsurface groundwater resources.

c) To perform the above mentioned, consider the hydrodynamic behavior of the aquifer, analyzing the impact of the spatial distribution of the extractions in order to minimize such impact on the own aquifer and on the condition of the river.

d) Taking into account the multi-annual behaviour of the aquifer and the nature of the use of the aquifer, specific rules may be introduced to cover these circumstances, such as multiannual plans. and joint uses of leverage.

Article 29. Serpis System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The generation of alternative reuse resources will be promoted with the double objective of reducing underground extractions, thereby improving the state of the corresponding groundwater bodies and improving the guarantee of agricultural uses, thus enabling the establishment of an appropriate ecological flow rate regime.

2. The own resources of the Serpis system are allocated for the attention of current water uses and for future urban growths.

3. The possible expansion of irrigation will preferably be carried out by releasing flows through the use of the sewage.

B) Assignments.

1. The surface resources regulated in the River Serpis, which correspond to those from the reservoir of Beniarrés, are assigned to the attention of the current users, with the following assignments:

a) 10 hm³/year for the attention of irrigation demands corresponding to the High Channels of the Serpis.

b) 13 hm³/year of surface and underground resources for the irrigation demands of the Serpis's Netherlands, of which 11 hm³/year correspond to surface resources regulated by the Beniarrés reservoir for the C.R. of the River Alcoy and Bernisa.

C) Reservations.

1. A reserve is established for urban use of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of the Safor of 3.3 hm³/year, with origin in the underground water bodies of Marchuquera-Falconera (2 hm³/year), Barig (0.7 hm³/year) and Almirante-Mustalla (0.6 hm³/year) in order to secure the necessary resources to the potential urban growths of the area.

2. To meet future growth in the rest of the urban and industrial demand units of the Serpis system, a reserve of 1.5 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies in good condition of the operating system.

3. A maximum regenerated volume of up to 4 hm³/year from the EDAR-La Safor EDAR, expandable up to 11 hm³/year in drought conditions, is reserved to meet the Serpis ' low-channel irrigation demands.

Article 30. High Marine System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. Without prejudice to other possible alternative solutions, the generation of alternative resources will be promoted with the double objective of reducing underground extractions, thereby improving the state of the corresponding underground water bodies and to improve the guarantee of urban and agricultural uses.

B) Assignments.

1. For the attention of the agricultural uses of the High Marine system, all the own resources of the system that are being used, both the surface and the subsurface sources and those from the reuse of the effluents, are allocated. System EDARs which, for quality reasons, permit this.

a) With respect to the olive-Pego regable zone, an allocation of 26.5 hm³/year of underground resources is established.

b) With respect to the regable area of the Girona River, an allocation of 10 hm³/year of surface and underground resources is established, with a surface maximum of 2 hm³/year.

c) With respect to the regadios of the rest of the Marina Alta system, an allocation of 16 hm³/year of underground and regenerated resources is established, with a maximum of 0.8 hm³/year from the EDAR Denia-Ondara-Pedreguer.

C) Reservations.

1. Reserve 1.0 hm³/year of underground resources in the Alfaro-Segaria groundwater masses (0.5 hm³/year) and the Benissa Depression (0.5 hm³/year), in order to ensure the possible growth of the unit of Urban demand Consortium for the supply and sanitation of waters of the High Navy and the industry of the area.

2. To meet future growth in the rest of the urban and industrial demand units of the Marina Alta system, a reserve of 1 hm³/year is established in the underground water bodies in good condition of the operating system.

3. Maximum regenerated volumes of up to 1 hm³/year from the Olive EDAR are reserved for the olive-Pego regable zone, up to 4 hm³/year from the EDAR Denia-Ondara-Pedreguer for the regable area of the river Girona and up to 1 hm³/year from the EDAR Denia-Ondara-Pedreguer for the regadios of the rest of the Marina Alta system.

Article 31. Low Marine System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The system of management of supplies and irrigation in the Lower Navy is based on the integral use of the surface water, underground and regenerated wastewater resources of the river basins Algar, Guadalest and Amadorio will continue to promote the integrated management of water resources.

B) Assignments.

1. The totality of the surface and underground resources of the Baja Marina system, including the wastewater treatment, are assigned to the satisfaction of the following current uses: the supply of the populations of the Marine Consortium Low and others, to the attention of the current irrigation of the reservoir of Guadalest, including the area of Callosa d' Ensarria and other areas served with groundwater, to the irrigation of the Amadorio reservoir and to the current regadios served with waters underground.

2. 28.8 hm³/year of surface and underground resources are allocated for the supply of the Water Consortium of the Lower Navy, in accordance with the current concessions, additional to the rights of the municipalities. which are part of the consortium.

3. For the attention of the irrigation of the Canal Bajo del Algar, the riegos of the Union of the Algar-Guadalest and the irrigation of Amadorio of the Baja Marina system is established an allocation of 33.2 hm³/year of surface and regenerated resources, of which 6.8 hm³/year are regenerated resources from the EDAR of Benidorm and 2.9 hm³/year of the EDAR of Vila Joiosa, in both cases their priority use to that of surface and underground resources.

C) Reservations.

1. An additional 4.1 hm reserve³/year of resources from the Sierra de Aitana groundwater mass for the Lower Navy Water Consortium, additional to the 28.8 hm³/year allocation, is established to ensure its future urban and industrial growths.

2. An additional 3.8 hm reserve³/year of resources of the underground water mass of Serrella-Aixorta-Algar for supply and irrigation is established in the operating system of the Marina Baja, with priority for the supply.

3. With the aim of improving the supply guarantee of the Water Consortium of the Lower Navy, the Rabasa-Fenollar-Amadorio will be able to contribute external resources up to a maximum of 11.5 hm³/year, which may come from the Júcar system, of the resources provided by the Júcar-Vinalopo-Marina Baja and the desalination plant of Mutxamel, and preferably may be transferred in drought conditions, in accordance with the provisions of the operating rules of the system.

4. A maximum regenerated volume of up to 2 hm³/year is reserved from the EDAR of Benidorm for the irrigation of the Lower Channel of the Algar and the Riegos of the Amadorio.

D) General conditions.

1. The Basin Agency shall develop rules for operating the system with the aim of maintaining the guarantees of traditional irrigation and incorporating the use of non-conventional resources into the management of the system.

Article 32. Vinalopo-Alacanti System.

A) Basic criteria.

1. The generation of alternative resources will be promoted with the aim of reducing underground extractions, thus improving the state of the corresponding groundwater bodies.

2. The exploitation of the reserves of the various bodies of groundwater which will be progressively replaced with the volumes contributed from the Júcar river, with those from desalination and with the increases in reuse. The use of reserves of the underground water bodies of the system shall also be permitted, in a temporary and reversible manner, in the event that transfers from the Júcar system cannot be carried out for a sufficiently long period.

3. No increase in area or volume for agricultural use shall be possible for the consolidated waterings as defined in Article 19. Except for this rule, the use of the underground water bodies in a good quantitative condition, which must comply with the general rules on concessions and in particular those adopted with this hydrological plan.

B) Assignments.

1. For the attention of the current demands of the system of exploitation Vinalopo-Alacanti will apply the own resources, underground and regenerated, as well as the superficial resources of the heads of the rivers Vinalopo, Monnegré and Jijona.

2. The available resource for catering to the population and agricultural uses in the underground water bodies of the Vinalopo is estimated at 48 hm³/year.

3. In order to achieve the good quantitative status of the underground water bodies of the Vinalopo-Alacanti system in the year 2027, the volume of resources allocated for the supply of population and agricultural use should gradually be reduced. up to 48 hm³/year running out of a deficit over the current water usage of 65 hm³/year (assuming a total of 113 hm³/year).

4. The allocation made in paragraph 3 above is less than the water rights, leaving no other 80 hm³/year additional to the 65 hm³/year indicated in that paragraph.

5. The following maximum regenerated volumes are allocated for irrigated agricultural use:

a) 0.5 hm³/year to Riegos from the Monnegre header, from the Castalla Foia EDAR (0.4 hm³/year) and Tibi (0.1 hm³/year).

b) 0.5 hm³/year to Riegos del Jijona, from the Jijona EDAR

c) 5.5 hm³/year to Riegos de Levante Siderano Izquierda: Huerta de Alicante and Bacarot from the EDAR of Monte Orgegia, in accordance with the provisions of Article 22 of this legislation.

d) 11.4 hm³/year to Riegos del Alacanti, coming from the EHR of Foia de Castalla (0.4 hm³/year), Alicante-Rincón de León (9.4 hm³/year), Agost (0.4 hm³/year) and Ibi (1.2 hm³/year).

e) 2.2 hm³/year to Upper Vinalopo Subways, coming from the Biar EDAR (0.2 hm³/year) and Villena (2 hm³/year).

f) 10.2 hm³/year to Middle Riegos Vinalopo, coming from the Vinalopo Valley EDAR (3 hm³/year), Aspe (0.3 hm³/year), Leon's Alicante-Rincon (5.7 hm³/year), and Monforte del Cid-Novelda (1.2 hm³/year).

g) 0.1 hm³/year to Riegos del Bajo Vinalopo, coming from the EDAR de Elche (Carrizales)

h) 8.8 hm³/year to Riegos of the Levant Left Margin: Camp d' Elx, of the Segura basin, from the EDAR of Santa Pola (1.7 hm³/year), Elche-Algoros (7 hm³/year) and Elche-Arenales (0.1 hm³/year), as set out in Article 22 of this regulation.

6. As regards the resources external to the operating system, they shall have the following source:

(a) The resources transferred to the urban supply in the area of the Commonwealth of Channels of the Taibilla, in particular for the supply of Alicante, Elche and its zone of influence in an estimated volume of 50 hm³/year.

b) The volumes transferred from the Sugar River.

7. In order to balance the balance of the groundwater bodies of the system with the current water uses, and in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article, at least one contribution of 65 hm³/year, which will come from the use of the Mutxamel desalination, the resources to be transferred from the Júcar, and the reuse increases derived from the previous allocations.

8. The maximum volume of 18 hm³/year from the desalination of Mutxamel will be used for the replacement of pumps for urban use in underground water bodies in a bad quantitative state and for future urban growths, with a maximum 11 hm³/year for the latter, with priority to meet the demands of the populations of Alicante, San Juan, San Vicente, Mutxamel and Campello and, in periods of drought, the supplies of the Consortium of Supply the Navy Low.

9. The volumes of Sugar resources up to 80 hm³/year, additional to those required to balance the balance of the groundwater masses with current uses, can be used to complement the current system usage Vinalopo-Alacanti, with the maximum limit of water rights of underground resources.

C) Reservations.

1. The following increases in the reuse of the EDAR of the Vinalopo-Alacanti system are reserved to complement the current use in the irrigation of the Vinalopo-Alacanti system, with the maximum limit of the water rights of underground resources:

a) 4.5 hm³/year to Irrigation Medium, coming from the Vinalopo Valley EDAR (2.5 hm³/year) and Leon's Alicante-Rincon (2 hm³/year).

b) 2 hm³/year to Riegos del Alacanti, from the EDAR of Alicante-Rincón de León.

c) 2 hm³/year to Legos of the Levant Left Margin: Camp d' Elx, from the EDAR of Alicante-Rincon de León.

d) 4.6 hm³/year to Riegos of the Levant Left Margin: Huerta de Alicante and Bacarot, coming from the EDAR of Monte Orgegia (4 hm³/year) and El Campello (0.6 hm³/year).

e) 0.3 hm³/year to Riegos del Bajo Vinalopo, coming from the EDAR de Elche (Carrizales).

2. The increases in urban demand in the Alacanti and Bajo Vinalopo can be met with the remaining capacity and with the expansion of the desalination of Mutxamel, through increases in contributions from the Commonwealth of the Taibilla Channels and for the replacement of underground resources used for irrigation with water from reuse. The small growths expected in the Upper and the Middle Vinalopo will be able to deal with groundwater.

Article 33. Demands not met with own resources.

1. In the Júcar and Vinalopo-Alacanti systems it is not possible to meet with their available resources all the existing water rights, the relocations and the possible future growth of demand with adequate guarantees and to comply with the ecological flows established in this regulation, with a water deficit of 245 hm³/year, as broken down in the following paragraph.

2. Therefore the contribution of resources, whose characteristics and provenance will be determined, if necessary, by the National Hydrological Plan, is required for:

a) To gradually reduce groundwater extractions to achieve the good quantitative status of the groundwater mass of the Eastern Channel in the year 2027, for which an estimated volume of 60 is required hm³ /year.

(b) To tender the volumes for which there are no own resources corresponding to water rights on account of the resources in the underground water mass of the Eastern Channel in the Júcar system, estimated at 60 hm³/year.

c) Power off the volumes for which there are no own resources corresponding to the water rights of surface resources of the Jucar-Turia Canal in the Júcar system, estimated at 55 hm³/year.

(d) To extend the volumes for which there are no own resources corresponding to water rights and agricultural demand relocations in the underground water bodies of the Vinalopo-Alacanti system, estimated at 70% hm³/year.

CHAPTER 7

Using the hydraulic public domain

Section 1. Common and proprietary uses

Article 34. Guidelines for the protection of groundwater.

When the extraction of water is carried out by the opening of wells, the minimum distances between wells and springs, shall be:

(a) 10 metres in urban land and 20 metres in non-urbanised soil for flow rates of less than 0,15 litres/second and one hundred metres in case of flow rates above that mentioned.

(b) equal distances shall be kept, at least, between the wells of a pre-dium and the non-waterproofing ponds or acequies of the neighbouring premises.

Article 35. Measurement devices.

In the terms provided for in Article 12 of the Order ARM/1312/2009 of 20 May, which regulates the systems to carry out effective control of the volumes of water used by the water use of the domain (a) the Commission shall, in accordance with Article 1 (2) of Regulation (EU) No 1831/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Parliament and of the Council, of the irrigated areas and the estimation of the consumption of water by means of indirect methods as remote sensing combined with an assessment of crop consumption, after a contrast and validation of the procedure with observed data.

Section 2. Authorizations and Concessions

Article 36. General rules on concessions.

1. As a general rule for the entire territorial scope of the demarcation and in order to achieve the good status of the water bodies and ensure compliance with the ecological flows, the new concessions will be granted in accordance with the provisions of the Chapter 6 on appropriations and resource reserves.

2. In those concessions which are dealt with under a waiver of rights agreement which would result in the release of resources in favour of a third party, it must be justified that the annual volume requested in concession is less than the maximum amount actually paid. used in the last five years to resign. In addition, in the case of a mass of groundwater in a quantitative condition, the volume to be granted may, in general terms, be reduced by a percentage of between 10% and 50% in respect of the volume of water. In order to improve the state of the water mass so that it can meet the environmental objectives set out in this regulation. The percentage of minoring shall be established on the basis of criteria based on the percentage of use with respect to the right, the environmental effects on the water bodies and the socio-economic effects on the territory.

3. Subsurface resource concessions for new non-consolidated uses shall be given only on bodies of groundwater that are in good condition, with the following exceptions:

a) Future urban growths that do not have an alternative resource available. In general, and in the absence of more precise studies, it is understood by future urban growths in this regulation corresponding to the projections made in the annex 3 of the memory of the plan for the year 2027.

(b) Those uses that are requested under paragraph 2.

4. In the underground water bodies that are contiguous to masses that are not in good condition, studies on the impact of the new use on the latter may be required and in case it has a significant negative impact on them. no new concessions shall be granted, except in the cases referred to in the previous paragraph.

5. The replacement of underground resources by other alternative resources will have as a maximum replacement volume corresponding to the maximum use of the underground resources which has occurred in the last five years, which can be extended to other resources. five if properly justified.

6. The cost of replacing these resources with other alternative resources, in so far as it contributes to the good quantitative status of the bodies of groundwater or to ensure the quality of water supplies, can be passed on. by the Basin Agency among the set of users of the operating system as provided for in the recast text of the Water Act.

7. In systems where this legislation indicates that there are demands not met with their own resources, the reuse of sewage treatment will only be authorised or granted, in such a way that at least 50% of the volume is used for the replacement of resources from conventional sources, with the limit referred to in paragraph 5, with the remaining volume being used to supplement rights which have not been able to be exercised, so as to ensure that under no circumstances produces an increase in the deficit. Similarly, in the case of the use of water from desalination to supply, a minimum of 50% of the current use should be replaced, with the rest being able to dedicate themselves to new growths.

Article 37. Water envelopes for population supply.

1. The allocations considered for the calculation of the urban demand will be the actual supply allocations. In the absence of actual data, the average reference envelopes referred to in the following paragraph shall be used.

2. The following average reference endowments, including losses, are established for the supply of the equivalent total population, with a total population equivalent to the population living permanently in the municipality. would consume the same volume as the permanent population plus the seasonal population. The average reference envelope includes the proportional share of the industry, shops and services connected to the municipal supply network.

equivalent population	Eligible range according to Order ARM/2656/2008 (l/hab.dia)	Reference l/hab.day)
Less than 10,000	180-640	310
10,000 to 25,000		290
25,000 to 50,000		280
	180-570	270
	to 100,000 to 500,000	180-490	250
500,000	180-340	225

3. Both for the granting or review dossiers for the characteristics of concessions intended for the use of population supply, and for the quantification of demands associated with new urban developments that are contemplated in the instruments In the case of planning and spatial planning, the above reference envelope values shall be applied according to the managed stock data managed. Only in a duly justified manner shall more than one reference be applied as a reference without in any case exceeding the maximum allocation of the range considered admissible.

4. In any event, the uses described in the previous paragraph must have been planned in accordance with Article 15.3.a) of the recast text of the Law of the Soil approved by Royal Legislative Decree of 20 June, and Article 25.4 of the text recast of the Water Act, which requires the prior report of the basin body concerning the regime and use of inland waters and permitted uses in areas of public hydraulic control and in their areas of servitude and police.

Article 38. Water envelopes for irrigation

1. In the case of a concession or a review of characteristics, and unless otherwise justified, the net crop allocations per agricultural area as set out in Appendix 7 shall be used. The actual gross allocation shall be obtained by dividing the net envelope for the overall efficiency of the irrigation, which in turn includes the transport, distribution and application efficiencies on a parcel.

2. In the absence of specific studies, the following ranges of transport, distribution and application efficiencies shall be taken as a reference.

efficiencies

Features	Value
Driving Efficiency.	Open Sky.	0.85-
	0.90-0.95
To Open Sky.		0,85-
		A	0.90-
Efficiency.	Severity.	0.60-
	-
	0,80-0.90
0,70-0,85	0,70-0,85
Localized.	0.90-

3. Within agricultural use, the following endowments are established for livestock farming according to the type of livestock.

Code

02

Livestock Type	Dotation (mt/cab.year)
01	Dairy cows	36.50
01	bovine Rest	10.95
Mother and Infant Sheep	3.65
02	Sheep Rest
03	Mother and infant goats	3.65
03	Goat Rest
04	Mother and Infant Cerras	7.30
04	Empty Cerda	4.38
04	1.83
04	porcine Rest
	Equine	25.55
06	Gallina ponder
0.08
06	Poultry Rest	0.07
	07	0,18
0,18

Article 39. Allocations for industrial use other than supply of population

1. The volumes of water requested by industries not connected to the urban network or by industrial estates shall be justified by providing specific information that provides for real data where possible.

2. In the case of new industrial estates, a maximum annual allocation of 4,000 m³ per hectare constructed or planned will be applied in the absence of specific studies. This value includes all the complementary needs of the industrial estate, such as landscaped areas, cleaning services and others.

3. In the case of individual installations, account shall be taken, in the absence of specific studies, of the maximum allocations indicated in the table below.

+ DC

INE	Subsector	Endowment/Employee (m³ /employment/year)	Dotation/VAB (m³ /1000 €)
DA		470	470	25.0
DB + DC		330	DB + DC	28.1
DD	Wood and cork	66
		687		29.2
DG	687	Chemical Industry	562	15.0
DH		173	173
Other non-metallic mineral products	516	14.7
DJ	Metallurgy and Metal Products	563	28.2
DK	Machinery and mechanical equipment	33	1.9
DL	Electrical, electronic and optical equipment	34	1.5
DM	Transport Material Manufacturing	95	4.1
	DN	Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	192	9.5

Note: VAB data at year 2000 prices.

4. In the case of activities under Law 16/2002 of 1 July on integrated pollution prevention and control, or in the case of another binding rule that prevents the supply of water to an industry that lacks a certain technology, the envelope required for industrial processes and for the cooling of such processes shall be adequately justified, taking into account the best available techniques or those which, where appropriate, impose such legislation.

Article 40. Limitations to concessional time limits.

1. The following maximum deadlines are set for the new concessions:

a) Population supply: 25 years.

b) Regadio: 25 years.

(c) Hydroelectric uses: 30 years, for minicentrales, with the understanding of those whose power is less than 5,000 KVA.

d) Other uses: 25 years.

2. The time limits laid down in paragraphs (c) and (d) of point 1 above may be exceeded, up to the maximum of 70 years and five years, when the investment to be made for the development of the product is credited to the concession file. Economic activity requires a longer period for recovery and a guarantee of viability. In the case of hydroelectric and cooling use, it will be particularly valued when the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism expresses the interest of the use to ensure the coverage of the electricity supply or other reasons of public interest.

Article 41. Concessions for hydropower.

1. During the period of validity of this hydrological plan, the feasibility and, where appropriate, the hydroelectric use of existing or future regulatory reservoirs will be promoted.

2. Hydro-electric use shall not affect compliance with the environmental objectives of the hydrological plan, and in particular those established for protected areas.

3. In the assessment of energy use, consideration should be given to the possible alternative uses of the river section concerned, in accordance with the criteria of priority of uses and granting of concessions.

4. In the competition of projects for the use of energy, both in natural channels and in state infrastructures, the basic criteria for evaluation will be the following:

(a) Proposed measures to minimize the environmental condition arising from the works and the variation of the flow rate regime, if any. In particular, it shall be valued, in addition to the extremes provided for in Article 133 of the Hydraulic Public Domain Regulation, as follows:

i. Proposed system for the control of compliance with the ecological flow rate regime. Those who need minimal monitoring for their control will be valued.

ii. Design of the infrastructure that minimises the condition to river and riverside connectivity, in accordance with Article 126.bis of the Hydraulic Public Domain Regulation.

iii. Situation of quarries and tailings and post-work treatment.

iv. Signalling plan for the prevention of accidents arising from installations, both in the work phase and in operation.

v. The corresponding emergency plan shall be required, those infrastructures classified as categories A) and B), as required, as proposed by the Basic Civil Protection Guideline in the face of the risk of flooding, approved by agreement of the Council of Ministers and published in the Resolution of 31 January 1995 of the Secretariat of State of the Interior.

b) Maximum stretch of river taken advantage of, compatible with pre-existing rights, both upstream and downstream.

c) The central output of the plant, duly justified with the hydrological, jump, load loss and equipment performance data. The criteria for the definition of the central equipment flow should be well established.

d) Quality of energy. Power plants designed for power generation of points in front of the flutents shall preferably be valued, provided that the works required for this (upstream or back-reservoir reservoir) do not result in a deterioration incompatible with the objectives environmental of the mass of water in which it is deployed.

5. Where there are no competing projects, the same criteria as set out in paragraph 4 on environmental impact measures shall be assessed. In relation to the technical criteria referred to in points (b) and (c) of paragraph 4, the hydrology of the section and the experience of other plants shall be taken into account where they exist. In any event, the basic criteria to be followed shall be those of the best use of the tranche, in terms of profitability accepted by the market, compliance with the ecological flow rate defined in this hydrological plan, as well as as the environmental protection regulations of the relevant environmental administrations.

Article 42. Of the conditions for the execution of energy use.

The conditioning of the new concessions, as well as their modification or revision, will contain, in addition to the provisions of the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain, in particular the provisions of Articles 102 and 115, Following ends:

(a) The ecological flow rate regime shall be fixed in accordance with Chapter 4 of this Regulation.

(b) In relation to the turban regime, the Administration shall impose, where appropriate, a given scheme, on the basis of the environmental objectives and the pre-existing or future rights, downstream, including the hydrological plan, without prejudice to the fact that the petitioner may propose the introduction of some element which will give rise to greater freedom of exploitation, in which case it will have to be justified that there is no significant deterioration in the the status of the mass of water in which it is deployed.

(c) The concessions shall include measures to minimise the environmental impact and to prevent the deterioration of the state of the affected mass or bodies of water, the beneficiary of which is obliged to make use of the measures necessary to minimise the environmental condition: scales of fish, plantations, treatment of quarries and tailings, etc., and to comply with the measures laid down in the environmental protection regulations of environmental administrations competent as well as the provisions of this Regulation.

d) According to the provisions of Article 55.4 of the recast text of the Water Law, the Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar will impose the construction, at the expense of the petitioner, of an effective control system of the the flow rates, which will show their suitability for the concessional criteria.

Article 43. Groundwater authorizations and concessions.

1. In accordance with Article 54.2 of the recast text of the Water Law, in the groundwater masses, agricultural uses with net endowments of less than 70% of those indicated in the Regulation are not in good quantitative status. Appendix 7 must apply for the relevant concession.

2. The lithological column of the land crossed may be required in the concessional clause and for all underground fetches. In underground fetches where volumes greater than 800,000 m³/year are extracted or when the water mass is not in a good quantitative state, it may also be required that a geophysical testification be performed in the fetch with the specific parameters that will be set in each case.

Article 44. Authorisations and concessions for sewage treatment plants.

1. As a general criterion, the reuse of waste water is estimated to be compatible with this hydrological plan, provided that the new use does not put at risk the ecological flow regime established in this regulation or the achievement of the environmental objectives laid down for the masses of the waters concerned, both with regard to the mass suffering from the flow rate and to which, where appropriate, it receives the return of the volumes reused. All this, in accordance with Article 36.7.

2. The following order of preference for the use of sewage treatment is established:

(a) The holder of the discharge authority for the waters that are reused or where the concessionaire is used for the first use of the waters, provided that they are used in their own uses.

b) Pre-existing concessions substitutions.

(c) The complementarity of existing irrigation schemes in order to improve their guarantee as long as there is no increase in the rights granted.

(d) The remaining uses permitted by Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December establishing the legal regime for the reuse of purified water.

3. The uses set out in Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December are for the purpose of defining the qualities of the water to be required according to their purpose, and may not correspond to nomenclature with the classification of uses. set out in Article 18.

Article 45. User communities.

1. The integration of groundwater mass users who are not in a good quantitative status in a Community of groundwater users is considered to be mandatory in accordance with Article 81 of the recast of the Law of Waters.

2. The Community of users referred to in the previous paragraph may integrate the users of one or more bodies of groundwater.

3. The granting of new groundwater fetches within a regable area of a Community of users will require prior reporting of the same.

CHAPTER 8

Protection of water public domain and water quality

Section 1. General rules on flood protection and protection zones

Article 46. Flood protection.

1. In accordance with the provisions of article 11.3 of the recast of the Law of Waters and the Royal Legislative Decree of 20 June, which approves the recast text of the Law of the Soil, and without prejudice to what at the time of its The following criteria shall be taken into account in establishing the flood risk management plans or their subsequent revisions:

a) It is understood as a level of protection against a flood that in which significant damage to people and property cease to occur.

(b) The level of protection for urban and industrial areas shall be the level corresponding to avenues between 100 and 500 years of return. In the already urbanised areas the target level will be established, within this range, from the cost-benefit analyses of the structural actions.

c) New urban developments will have at least a level of protection for the 250-year-old avenue if there is no limitation of uses and/or corrective measures that minimize damage to persons or property. These new developments will also have the necessary elements in order not to produce a significant increase in runoff or any pre-existing danger.

(d) The level of protection target for agricultural areas shall be that corresponding to avenues between 10 and 100 years of return, the target level being established on the basis of the cost-benefit analysis of the structural actions.

2. The following criteria are incorporated for carrying out studies, actions and works to prevent and prevent damage due to floods and floods:

(a) In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 903/2010 of 9 July 2010, the unjustified deterioration of river and coastal ecosystems will be avoided, with measures of non-structural nature being strengthened to in the face of floods and focusing on forecasting, protection and preparedness.

(b) Non-structural measures shall include, inter alia, the management of flood areas, so-called green infrastructure, forecasting and warning systems in the face of floods and insurance.

(c) The encauzations covered shall be avoided, especially when they are laid out in solid and floating areas, except for very justified cases.

3. The flood management will take into account the Agreement of the Council of Ministers of 29 July 2011 approving the State Plan for Civil Protection in the face of the risk of floods, as well as the Council of Ministers ' Agreement of 9 December 2011. December 1994, for which the Basic Guideline of Civil Protection Planning is approved in the face of the Flood Risk, which establishes the basic content and functions of the Autonomous Communities ' plans. To this end, the Civil Protection Plans for the Flood Risk of the Autonomous Communities of the Region of Murcia (approved by the National Commission for Civil Protection on 10 May) will be applicable in their respective territorial areas. July 2007), Castilla-La Mancha (24 March 2010), Aragon (approved on 19 July 2006), Catalonia (approved on 19 July 2006) and the Valencian Community (23 March 1999 and updated on 17 November 2010).

Article 47. Protected zone registration.

1. The hydrological plan of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar collects in the annex 4 of the memory a summary of the register of protected zones provided for in Article 24 of the Regulation of the Hydrological Planning, including indicative maps of the location of each area, environmental information and conservation status, as appropriate, as required by that article.

2. The register of protected areas included in the Plan is accessible to the public through the website (www.chj.es) of the Hydrographic Confederation of Júcar.

Article 48. River natural reserves.

1. In accordance with the provisions of Article 42.1.b (b) (c) of the recast of the Water Act and Articles 4 (b) (c) and 22 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, and in compliance with the powers of the Council of the European Union, different public administrations, for their declaration by the competent authorities, proposed as river natural reserves the sections of the river which are listed in Appendix 8, which are characterised by river aquatic ecosystems which have a high degree of naturalness, with little or no human intervention.

2. The geographical location of these areas is defined in Appendix 8, where the area covered by the waters under conditions of maximum ordinary growths is considered to be a reserve zone.

3. The defined reserves are limited to the hydraulic public domain goods corresponding to the river segments associated with each reservation. In these sections, an environmental management plan for the public hydraulic domain and its areas of influence shall be drawn up, which shall be approved or informed by the basin body in order to determine the adequacy of this plan. hydrologic of the new authorisations or concessions requested.

4. In those sections of the river no authorisations or concessions will be granted in the public hydraulic domain of activities that can produce significant pressure on the water mass. For these purposes, the uses or anthropic activities that generate a deterioration of the state or class change of the water mass are considered to be significant pressure.

5. The preceding paragraphs shall be without prejudice to the nature of protected space or protected natural space in the Ramsar wetlands and the sections of the river or lakes which are classified as sites of Community importance, areas of special importance conservation or special protection areas for birds for the purpose of their incorporation into the Natura 2000 network and the application to the regime of their surface water and aquifers of their specific legislation.

Article 49. Special protection zones.

According to the provisions of Articles 43.2 of the recast of the Water Act and 23 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, this plan declares special protection for the zones set out in Appendix 9 of this Regulation. rules and defines your objectives.

Article 50. Protective perimeters.

1. Applications for subways to be granted under subways for the supply of population shall be subject to studies with the perimeter of protection of their fetches. If a supporting study is not provided, or if it is not considered appropriate, the basin body may define this perimeter with a circle of radius 300 metres around the catchment area.

2. Any new application for granting or authorization to discharge within the protection perimeter shall require the applicant to provide a non-condition study.

3. In the water supply of water for supply from desalination plant, the protection perimeter shall be defined as a general criterion by a circle of 100 m of radius, including its corresponding line of coast projection. This perimeter should be confirmed with specific study for each case when in the proposed zone there are pre-plant facilities.

4. The protection zones for water supplies for human consumption included in the register of protected zones up to the date of approval of this plan are set out in Appendix 10.

Article 51. Invasive alien species.

1. In activities carried out in the area of public water control or water police with risk of introduction of invasive alien species, compliance with actions, prevention measures and good practices for non-invasive species should be ensured. introduction of these species, without prejudice to the autonomic powers in the field.

2. In the case of water transfers between basins, the control mechanisms necessary to prevent the spread of invasive species should be established.

Section 2. Discharges

Article 52. General conditions.

1. All discharges of waste water to the Public Hydraulic Domain, regardless of their volume and characterization, will have to have the mandatory authorization of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Sugar, as established in the Article 100 of the recast text of the Water Act.

2. They are urban waste water or similar to those generated by human metabolism and domestic activities. Industrial waste water is all waste water discharged from premises used for any commercial activity or industry, which is not considered to be equivalent to urban.

3. The discharge conditions shall be laid down in the relevant authorisation, in accordance with the Hydraulic Public Domain Regulation. These conditions will be established in such a way that in no case will there be a worsening of the current state of the surface water or groundwater masses.

4. In general terms, the discharge authorities shall set the emission limit values for the parameters set out in Royal Decree 509/1996, 15 March, which develops the rules for the treatment of urban waste water. In addition, emission limit values will be established for other parameters characteristic of the waste water generated and, in particular, those determinants for achieving the environmental objectives of the receiving water bodies. landfill, according to Annex I of the said royal decree.

5. Specifically, in the area of the Valencia Natural Park of the Albufera, discharges from urban waste water treatment facilities must meet the following annual average concentration values:

Parameter	Concentration
Fosforum.	0.6 mg/l P.

6. Emission limit values shall in no case be achieved by dilution techniques.

7. The annual control periods shall be those laid down in the following tables.

10,000 ≥ < 50,000

		or Assimilable Wastewater		Annual Periods
h. e.	m3
≤ 15	1,000	1
15 > < 250	20,000	2
250 ≥ < 2,000	150,000
≥ < 10,000	800,000	12 (4)2
4 × 106	12
≥ 50,000	-	24

¹ It will be completed with a report by Hydraulic Management Collaborating Entity (ECAH) that accredits the maintenance and review of the facility.

² Number of samples during the first year, in parentheses number of samples the following years, provided that it can be shown that the water of the first year meets the emission limit values set in the authorization spill.

15.000-150,000

Waste Water	Annual Periods
	No specials	Special *
	< 2,000		4
	4		6		6
		12
	12	18
> 800,000	24	24

* Special: discharges with the presence of hazardous substances and/or the receiving medium is part of the protected zone registry.

8. The number of non-compliant samples for urban waste water discharges shall be as set out in Annex 3.C to Royal Decree 509/1996 of 15 March 1996. In the absence of rules applicable to industrial waste water, the number of non-compliant samples admissible shall be that indicated in the discharge authorisation, using the interpretative criterion set out in that Annex. In both cases, one-off and integrated samples are admitted within 24 hours. Where the number of self-controls which does not comply with any of the emission limit values laid down in the discharge authorisation is greater than the permitted non-compliant samples, or where the holder does not present all the prescribed self-controls In the discharge authorisation, the scrubber treatment shall be deemed not to be appropriate.

9. Identified an unauthorised urban waste water spill, and in the absence of technical documentation, relating to the volume of waste water generated, allowing for the indirect estimation set out in Article 292 of the Public Domain Regulation Hydraulic, the following unit envelopes shall be considered:

Population Cores *

equivalent population	Average reference urban waste water (ARU) Aggregation (l/hab.dia)
than 10,000	217
10,000 to 25,000	203
From 25,000 to 50,000	196
189	189
100,000 to 500,000	175
500,000	157.5

* Includes waste water generated by the service, trade, and industry sector of the population core.

10. The estimation of volume from industrial installations shall be in accordance with the provisions of Article 292 of the Regulation on Hydraulic Public Domain.

11. The waste water management system generated shall be justified where the waste water is not discharged into the Public Water Domain or is not connected to a sanitation system.

Article 53. Particular conditions.

1. In the case of discharges of waste water carried out on bodies of water included in the register of protected areas, the necessary conditions shall be laid down to meet the particular environmental objectives of quality laid down in the specific regulations.

2. In discharges from urban agglomerations of less than 10,000 equivalent inhabitants in a sensitive area, the supply of nutrients in discharges involving a higher organic load shall be limited, taking into account the total sum of the discharges. equivalent inhabitants.

3. Discharges carried out in surface waters with a discontinuous flow rate and discharges carried out on the ground shall have the following characteristics for the purposes laid down in Article 259 (2) of the Regulation. Hydraulic Public Domain:

(a) In general, they shall require a hydrogeologic study by a technical competent and provided by the operator to demonstrate its safety to groundwater.

(b) For discharges of an urban or equivalent nature below 250 equivalent inhabitants, the Basin Agency may allow the submission of simplified studies of the condition.

(c) In the case of dwellings disseminated under Article 54.3, the local authority shall submit a hydrogeological survey for all the discharges of the same aquifer. In such cases, the catchment area may, depending on the hydrogeological survey and provided that the total discharge is less than 2,000 equivalent inhabitants, may be considered as purification methods to obtain yields other than those of the established in Royal Decree 509/1996 of March 15.

(d) In any event, the emission limit values shall be established in addition to the requirements of Article 52 in order to achieve the environmental objectives defined in the groundwater bodies at the time of the that do not compromise the quality of the resource in existing use.

4. Discharges made to irrigation balsas and balsas shall have the required permission of the holder of the infrastructure to obtain the discharge authorization. In addition, at least the quality criteria set out in Annex 1.A (2) of Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December 2007, depending on the type of crop which may be affected, shall be considered to be subject to the highest criteria. exacting for the assumption in which they were several.

Article 54. Ownership of the discharges.

1. The ownership of the discharges generated by population nuclei (hamlets, pedanias, urbanizations, consolidated housing units or any other form without its own legal personality), where it is technically and economically feasible to collect, (a) driving and joint treatment of waste water generated with those of the municipality itself, shall be borne by the local authority. For these purposes, a density of more than 10 dwellings within a radius of 100 meters is defined by consolidated housing.

2. The ownership of the discharges generated by population nuclei that do not have the possibility of collection and treatment as a whole with the wastewater generated by the municipality, falls on the population core itself. For these purposes, they shall be a community of discharges, as set out in Article 90 of the recast of the Water Act, and the local authorities concerned shall provide the maximum collaboration for their constitution.

3. The ownership of the discharges generated by the scattered dwellings of a municipal term, in those cases in which their importance and spatial concentration can compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives of the corresponding mass of water, it will fall to the legal person. The local authority concerned shall promote and facilitate the joint processing of the relevant discharge authorization and shall cooperate with the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation in the establishment of the relevant programmes for the reduction of the discharge. pollution.

4. In all other cases, the discharge holder shall be the owner of the activity causing the discharge.

Article 55. Low entity discharges.

1. Urban or equivalent waste water less than 10,000 m³/year or 250 equivalent inhabitants are considered to be low-entity discharges:

2. For these discharges, the simplified procedure laid down in Article 253.2 of the Hydraulic Public Domain Regulation shall apply.

3. The parameters to be limited in the effluent shall be as follows:

Parameter	Issue Limit Value mg/l)	Issue limit value (% reduction)
DBO5	25	75%
		75%	125
125	125	60	70%

4. In the event that the water mass is in a bad state or the spatial concentration of specific pressures is such that it can compromise the achievement of the environmental objectives, it shall apply as set out in Article 52.4.

Article 56. Indirect flow estimates

The Basin Agency may authorise the holders of discharges of less than 250 equivalent inhabitants, the estimation of the volumes of waste water generated from information on water consumption, provided that they are identified the sources of supply and there are no significant variations between the water consumed and the waste water generated.

Section 3. Reuse of water

Article 57. Reuse of purged wastewater.

1. Any reuse of water shall be in accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December establishing the legal regime for the reuse of clean water.

2. The holder of the grant or supplementary authorisation for reuse shall submit to the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation annually, the result of the self-control programme referred to in Article 8 of the Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December. In the event of non-compliance, it would result in the revocation of the same.

3. In those procedures referred to in Article 9 of Royal Decree 1620/2007 of 7 December, and for volumes less than 7,000 m³/year, the compatibility of the use with the hydrological plan shall be understood implicitly the effects of the provisions of Article 8.5 of the Royal Decree.

CHAPTER 9

Financial economic regime of the use of the hydraulic public domain

Article 58. Applying the principle of cost recovery.

1. The recovery of the cost of water utilities and non-internalized environmental costs will aim to promote more efficient use of water and the rest of the public domain, contributing to the achievement of the of the objectives of good health and improvement of the attention of the water needs. To this end, the authorities with powers in the supply of water, will establish tariff structures for sections of consumption, in order to be able to meet the basic necessities at an affordable price and, at the same time, to discourage the consumption excessive.

2. In accordance with Article 111a (1) and (2) of the recast of the Water Act and Article 42 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, the fees and charges of the financial economic system covered by Articles 112 to 115 shall apply. of the recast of the Law of Water, on the beneficiaries of the works of the program of measures financed by the General Administration of the State. The economic analysis of the cost recovery principle of water-related services in the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Sugar is collected in Annex 9 of the memory of this plan.

3. The analysis of the economic viability of the works financed by the General Administration of the State shall require the identification of the beneficiary users who are required to pay fees or charges in accordance with Article 114 of the text. the water law, which must be dealt with by the hearing, and should be issued with a report on the allegations that they make. Once the execution of the work has been approved, if its cost exceeds 6 million euros, the future users will be notified so that they can request the constitution of the corresponding Board of works in accordance with the provisions of Article 50 of the Regulation of the Public Administration of Water and Hydrological Planning, approved by Royal Decree 927/1988, of July 29.

4. If exceptional circumstances exist, the Basin Agency, or the Desreservoir Commission, agrees to use the Alarcón Reservoir resources or the resources reserved for the rest of the System in favor of the Union of Users of the Júcar (USJ) when the stored volume does not exceed the amount indicated in the Alarcón Convention of 23 July 2001, or the provision that in future may replace it in accordance with the parties to the Convention, the users of the (i) the total cost of replacement of the reserve must be paid to the public by the public volumes brought by underground or repumped resources to be extracted in the regable area of that USJ, both in the current hydrological year and in the following two years, if the replacement of the volumes in all or part of the volume is carried out within this period.

Article 59. Exceptions to the application of the cost recovery principle.

1. Derogations from the principle of the recovery of costs for water-related services may be laid down only if the conditions laid down in Article 111 bis.3 of the recast of the Water Act are met. Without prejudice to the following paragraphs, proposals for derogations from the application of the principle of cost recovery are not included in this hydrological plan.

2. The users integrated into the USJ, as established in the specific Convention on the Alarcón reservoir for the optimized and unitary management of the Júcar hydraulic system, of 23 July 2001, held between the then Ministry of Environment and USJ, are exempt from paying all the ordinary and extraordinary expenses, of conservation, exploitation, management and investments and improvements made or that are executed in the future of those mentioned in Annex IV of the Convention, in the Alarcón reservoir, during the sixty years following the signing of the Convention.

3. In the light of the environmental improvement that for the groundwater mass of the Eastern Channel involves the supply of Albacete and its area of influence with surface resources of the Júcar River, the General Administration of the State will assume the compliance with the provisions of Article 58.3.

CHAPTER 10

Monitoring and Review of the Hydrological Plan

Article 60. Specific follow-up aspects of the Plan.

The following aspects will be specifically monitored:

a) The evolution of water resources and their quality, which will include whenever possible information on a monthly basis and will be updated annually.

b) The evolution of water uses and demands, especially supplies of surface resources and water uses served with underground resources, in the most significant demand units. It will also monitor the evolution of concessions for water use.

(c) Circulating Caudals and degree of compliance with the ecological flow rate regime at the control points indicated in Appendix 6.

d) State of the surface and underground water bodies, which shall be updated annually.

e) The evolution of the implementation of the programme of measures, reporting, on an annual basis, of the costs of investment, maintenance and exploitation of each measure, its commencement and degree of implementation and the effects of the measures on the achievement of the environmental objectives set out in the water bodies.

f) Updating the Protected Zone Registry.

g) Cost of water services and impact to different users.

h) Situations of temporary deterioration, by means of annual reports.

Article 61. Natural river reserves designated after the approval of the hydrological plan.

In accordance with Article 25 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, when a natural river reserve is designated after approval of this plan, it will be incorporated into the register of protected zones with the the same effects, without the need for the procedures for consultation and approval of the hydrological plan as defined in that Regulation.

Article 62. Track the circumstances of temporary deterioration in water bodies.

The hydrological plan shall carry out an annual monitoring report of the situations of temporary deterioration in the water bodies that may have been produced and shall include a summary of the effects produced by those circumstances, as well as the measures that have been taken or are to be taken.

Article 63. Review of the Hydrological Plan.

In accordance with Article 89 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, this Plan may be revised, on a proposal from the Demarcation Water Council, when the changes or deviations observed in its data, hypotheses or results so advise. In any case, a full review will be carried out by 31 December 2015 and then every six years.

CHAPTER 11

Public participation and competent authorities

Article 64. Organization and procedure for making public participation effective.

1. The Hydrographic Confederation of the Júcar will coordinate the processes of public information, public consultation and active participation that are collected in the project of organization and procedure to make effective the public participation, formulated of agreement with the provisions of Article 72 of the Hydrological Planning Regulation, as well as the strategic environmental assessment of the hydrological plan.

2. The methods and techniques of participation to be used in the different phases of the process, in accordance with the procedures established by the Demarcation Water Council and its Committee on Hydrological Planning and Citizen Participation, will be, among others, interviews, open day, bilateral meetings, workshops, interactive participation, sectoral and multisectoral tables, conferences and round tables, in which active participation will be encouraged.

3. Documentation and information related to the plan during public information, public consultation and active participation processes will be accessible:

a) On paper at the headquarters of the Basin Agency in Valencia.

b) In digital format on the official Web pages of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

4. The above documentation will remain accessible on the official Web of the Júcar Hydrographic Confederation for the duration of the plan.

Article 65. Hydrological Plan Information System.

1. The Basin Agency shall develop and maintain an information system to be used for the monitoring and review of the hydrological plan, in particular to inform the Demarcation Water Council, its Hydrological Planning Commission, and Citizen participation and the Committee of Competent Authorities, present the reports required by the European Commission on the hydrological plans and facilitate the provision of information and citizen participation in the planning.

2. This information system will be publicly accessible, once this plan is approved, through the official Web of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Sugar and will include, among others, the data available from the monitoring networks operation and surveillance, the time series of the capacity stations and the piezometers, the values of the indicators used for the assessment of the state of the water masses as well as the measurements of flow rates in real time from the Automatic Hydrological Information System.

Article 66. Competent authorities.

The current composition of the Committee of Competent Authorities is detailed in Chapter 15 of the Memory of the Hydrological Plan. The Júcar Hydrographic Confederation will keep up to date and make available to the public through its website (www.chj.es) the composition of the Committee of Competent Authorities of the Hydrographic Demarcation of the Júcar, as it conforms As indicated in Royal Decree 126/2007 of 2 February, changes may be made in the composition or designation of the members of the aforementioned Committee.

APPENDAGES

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