
Article 1 
Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Directive.
Article 2 

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 20 May 2016 at the latest. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions.When Member States adopt those provisions, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 3 
This Directive shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 4 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 30 October 2014.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

In Annex V to Directive 2000/60/EC, Section 1.3.6 is replaced by the following:
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1.3.6. 
Methods used for the monitoring of type parameters shall conform to the international standards listed below in so far as they cover monitoring, or to such other national or international standards which will ensure the provision of data of an equivalent scientific quality and comparability.

Generic methods for use with the specific methods given in the standards relating to the following biological quality elements:


EN ISO 5667-3:2012 Water quality — Sampling — Part 3: Preservation and handling of samples


EN 15204:2006 Water quality — Guidance standard on the enumeration of phytoplankton using inverted microscopy (Utermöhl technique)
EN 15972:2011 Water quality — Guidance on quantitative and qualitative investigations of marine phytoplankton
ISO 10260:1992 Water quality — Measurement of biochemical parameters —Spectrometric determination of the chlorophyll-a concentration


EN 15460:2007 Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying of macrophytes in lakes
EN 14184:2014 Water quality — Guidance for the surveying of aquatic macrophytes in running waters
EN 15708:2009 Water quality — Guidance standard for the surveying, sampling and laboratory analysis of phytobenthos in shallow running water
EN 13946:2014 Water quality — Guidance for the routine sampling and preparation of benthic diatoms from rivers and lakes
EN 14407:2014 Water quality — Guidance for the identification and enumeration of benthic diatom samples from rivers and lakes


EN ISO 10870:2012 Water quality — Guidelines for the selection of sampling methods and devices for benthic macroinvertebrates in fresh waters
EN 15196:2006 Water quality — Guidance on sampling and processing of the pupal exuviae of Chironomidae (order Diptera) for ecological assessment
EN 16150:2012 Water quality — Guidance on pro rata multi-habitat sampling of benthic macro-invertebrates from wadeable rivers
EN ISO 19493:2007 Water quality — Guidance on marine biological surveys of hard-substrate communities
EN ISO 16665:2013 Water quality — Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macro-fauna


EN 14962:2006 Water quality — Guidance on the scope and selection of fish sampling methods
EN 14011:2003 Water quality — Sampling of fish with electricity
EN 15910:2014 Water quality — Guidance on the estimation of fish abundance with mobile hydroacoustic methods
EN 14757:2005 Water quality — Sampling of fish with multi-mesh gillnets


EN 14614:2004 Water quality — Guidance standard for assessing the hydromorphological features of rivers
EN 16039:2011 Water quality — Guidance standard on assessing the hydromorphological features of lakes

Any relevant CEN/ISO standards
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