Royal Decree 1/2016, of January 8, which approves the revision of the Hydrological Plans of the hydrographic demarcations of the Western Cantabrian, Guadalquivir, Ceuta, Melilla, Segura and Júcar, and of the Spanish part of the hydrographic demarcations of the Eastern Cantabrian, Miño-Sil, Duero, Tajo, Guadiana and Ebro.
ANNEX X. Normative provisions of the Hydrological Plan of the Segura Hydrographic Demarcation
- Article 1. Territorial scope of the Hydrological Plan.
- Article 2. Definition of resource exploitation systems.
- Article 3. Delimitation of the demarcation, the exploitation systems and the water bodies.
CHAPTER I. Definition of water bodies
Section I. Surface water bodies
- Article 4. Identification of surface water bodies.
- Article 5. Reference conditions and class change limits.
Section II. Groundwater bodies
- Article 6. Identification of groundwater bodies.
- Article 7. Threshold values in groundwater bodies.
CHAPTER II. Priority criteria and compatibility of uses
CHAPTER III. Ecological flow regimes and other environmental demands
- Article 9. Ecological flow regimes.
- Article 10. Ecological flow regimes in conditions of prolonged drought.
- Article 11. Control and monitoring of the ecological flow regime.
- Article 12. Compliance with the ecological flow regime.
- Article 13. Preferential circulation through natural channels.
CHAPTER IV. Allocation and reservation of resources
- Article 14. Allocation of resources for current and future uses and demands.
- Article 15. Resource reservations.
- Article 16. Land reservation.
- Article 17. Endowments and supply demand.
- Article 18. Equipment and demand for irrigation.
- Article 19. Allocations and demand for water for irrigation of golf courses and green areas associated with urbanizations.
- Article 20. Endowments and industrial demand.
CHAPTER V. Protected areas. Protection regime
- Article 21. River nature reserves.
- Article 22. Protection of groundwater against saltwater intrusion.
- Article 23. Protection of wetlands.
- Article 24. Protection of recreational use areas.
- Article 25. Protection perimeters.
- Article 26. Registration of protected areas.
CHAPTER VI. Environmental objectives and modification of water bodies
- Article 27. Environmental objectives of water bodies.
- Article 28. Conditions to admit the temporary deterioration of the state of the bodies of water.
- Article 29. Conditions for new modifications.
CHAPTER VII. Protective measures for water bodies
Section I. Measures relating to the alteration of the morphological conditions of water bodies
- Article 30. Protection of the hydraulic public domain.
- Article 31. Protection of banks.
- Article 32. Improvement of the morphology and environmental quality of the channels.
Section II. Measures for the use of the hydraulic public domain
- Article 33. General criteria for the use of surface and groundwater.
- Article 34. Criteria for the revision and modification of concessions.
- Article 35. Specific rules on groundwater concessions and authorizations.
- Article 36. Concessions aimed at the regularization of exploitation.
- Article 37. Rights of a private nature on public irrigation of national interest foreseen before 1986.
- Article 38. Needs assessment and submission to the ecological flow regime.
- Article 39. Limitations on concession terms.
- Article 40. Use by legal provision.
- Article 41. Concessions for hydroelectric exploitation.
Section III. Measures for the protection of the state of water bodies
- Article 42. Measures for the protection of the state of surface water bodies.
- Article 43. Discharges into the public hydraulic domain of urban wastewater or similar to urban wastewater from homes and urban centers of up to 250 equivalent inhabitants.
- Article 44. Guidelines for purification, treatment and discharge activities.
- Article 45. Discharges into coastal and transitional waters.
- Article 46. Reuse of reclaimed water.
- Article 47. Irrigation returns.
- Article 48. Characteristics of groundwater bodies. Assessment of its quantitative status.
- Article 49. Standards for the protection of quality against diffuse contamination.
- Article 50. Actions in groundwater bodies at risk of not reaching good quantitative status.
- Article 51. Criteria for the qualification of an aquifer as in the process of salinization.
- Article 52. Conditions for conducting groundwater harvesting.
- Article 53. Actions in coastal aquifers in the process of salinization.
Section IV. Measures for protection against floods and droughts
- Article 54. Protection against floods.
- Article 55. Flood risk and territorial and urban planning.
- Article 56. Actions to overcome drought situations.
Section V. Economic and financial regime of the use of the hydraulic public domain
- Article 57. Recovery of the costs of water services.
- Article 58. Center for the exchange of rights to the use of water.
CHAPTER IX. Organization and procedure to make public participation effective
- Article 60. Organization and procedure to make public participation effective.
- Article 61. Competent authorities.
- Article 62. Registration of interested parties.
- Article 63. Stakeholders.
- Article 64. Public information actions.
- Article 65. Public consultation actions.
- Article 66. Active participation actions.
- Article 67. Consideration of more up-to-date data in compatibility reports.
CHAPTER X. Monitoring of the Hydrological Plan
APPENDIX 1. RESOURCE EXPLOITATION SYSTEMS
APPENDIX 2. SURFACE WATER MASSES
APPENDIX 3. INDICATORS AND LIMITS OF CLASS CHANGE FOR THE QUALITY ELEMENTS OF SURFACE WATER MASSES
APPENDIX 4. GROUNDS OF GROUND WATER
APPENDIX 5. THRESHOLD VALUES FOR MASSES OF GROUNDWATER WITH CHEMICAL RISK
APPENDIX 6. ECOLOGICAL FLOWS AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
APPENDIX 7. ADDITIONAL QUALITY OBJECTIVES OF PROTECTED AREAS FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION
APPENDIX 8. RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS ACCORDING TO USE
APPENDIX 9. NATURAL RIVER RESERVES
APPENDIX 10. ENVIRONMENTAL OBJECTIVES
APPENDIX 11. PROGRAM OF MEASURES
APPENDIX 13. PROPOSAL FOR EXCEPTIONS TO THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COST RECOVERY
