(9)The Union framework for water protection 6 ensures an integrated approach to water management, respecting the integrity of whole ecosystems. The technical screening criteria should therefore aim at addressing the adverse effects of urban and industrial waste water discharges, protecting human health from the adverse impact of any contamination of water intended for human consumption, improving water management and the efficiency of water use, ensuring the sustainable use of marine ecosystem services, contributing to the good environmental status of marine waters and to the overall achievement and maintenance of good status or good potential of bodies of water, including bodies of surface water and groundwater. Technical screening criteria for urban waste water treatment as activity providing a substantial contribution to one or more environmental objectives should be reviewed and where necessary revised, taking into account relevant Union law, including Council Directive 91/271/EEC 7 .
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- 6 In particular Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy ( OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1 ), Directive 2008/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on environmental quality standards in the field of water policy, amending and subsequently repealing Council Directives 82/176/EEC, 83/513/EEC, 84/156/EEC, 84/491/EEC, 86/280/EEC and amending Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council ( OJ L 348, 24.12.2008, p. 84 ), Directive 2006/118/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration ( OJ L 372, 27.12.2006, p. 19 ), Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment ( OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40 ), Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption ( OJ L 435, 23.12.2020, p. 1 ), Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) ( OJ L 164, 25.6.2008, p. 19 ), Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 concerning the management of bathing water quality and repealing Directive 76/160/EEC ( OJ L 64, 4.3.2006, p. 37 ) and Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources ( OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1 ). ↩
- 7 Council Directive 91/271/EEC of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste-water treatment ( OJ L 135, 30.5.1991, p. 40 ). ↩