Water Policy Framework (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

L.N. 115 of 2012

MALTA RESOURCES AUTHORITY ACT

(CAP. 423)

ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT

(CAP. 504)

Water Policy Framework (Amendment) Regulations, 2012

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 28(1) of the Malta

Resources Authority Act and by articles 2, 61, 64 and 66 of the

Environment and Development Planning Act, the Prime Minister and

the Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs, after consultation with

the Malta Resources Authority and the Malta Environment and

Planning Authority, have made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Water Policy

Framework (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, and these regulations

shall be read and construed as one with the Water Policy Framework

Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations transpose Article 32 of Directive 2009/

31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide and amending

Directives 85/337/EEC, 2000/60/EC, 2001/80/EC, 2004/35/EC,

2006/12/EC, 2008/1/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006.

Paragraph (j) of sub-regulation (3) of regulation 11 of the

principal regulations shall be amended as follows

(a)

items (v) and (vi) thereof shall be renumbered as

items (vi) and (vii) respectively; and

(b) immediately after item (iv) thereof, there shall be

added the following new paragraph

"(v) injection of carbon dioxide stream

for storage purposes into geological

formations which for natural reasons are

permanently unsuitable for other purposes,

provided that such injection is made in

accordance with the Geological Storage of

Carbon Dioxide Regulations, or excluded

from the applicability of those regulations

pursuant to regulation 2(2) of those

regulations;".

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