Guidance

River basin management plans, updated 2022: summary programmes of measures

The mechanisms, programmes and strategic initiatives for protecting and improving the water environment in each river basin district.

• From: Environment Agency
• Published: 21 October 2022
• Last updated: 22 December 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

The summary programmes of measures contains the main mechanisms, programmes, and strategic initiatives to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district. They include:

• ‘basic’ measures, for example, action required by legislation
• ‘supplementary’ measures which can be regulatory or voluntary initiatives such as codes of practice

The summary programmes of measures also:

• describe the main types of on-the-ground action to be implemented
• signposts to where more detail of specific, local actions can be found

Where this detail is yet to be developed, it indicates when and how the implementation of the measures will happen, and how organisations and people can help.

The summary programmes of measures in the river basin management plans consists of the following components:

• Summary programmes of measures

• Summary programmes of measures data

• Summary programmes of measures - mechanisms

• Catchment partnership pages

• River basin planning: local measures case studies

Published 21 October 2022
Last updated 22 December 2022 + show all updates

1. 22 December 2022

   Updated tense to reflect that the 2022 river basin management plans are the current plans approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.

2. 21 October 2022

   First published.