+Article 8 1.

Article 8 1.

Member States shall ensure the establishment of programmes for the monitoring of water status in order to establish a coherent and comprehensive overview of water status within each river basin district:

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for surface waters such programmes shall cover:
(i) 

the volume and level or rate of flow to the extent relevant for ecological and chemical status and ecological potential, and

(ii) 

the ecological and chemical status and ecological potential;

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for groundwaters such programmes shall cover monitoring of the chemical and quantitative status,
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for protected areas the above programmes shall be supplemented by those specifications contained in Community legislation under which the individual protected areas have been established.

1. Overview

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1.1 References

1.2 Identified Requirements

1.3 Related Standards

2. Identified Requirements

Requirements

3. Related Standards

Standards