Article 5

77/795/EEC: Council Decision of 12 December 1977 establishing a common procedure for the exchange of information on the quality of surface fresh water in the Community · European Union

1. The list in Annex I may be amended by the Commission on a request from the Member State concerned. 2. The Commission shall make such amendments when it is satisfied that the following requirements are met: - that the list of sampling or measuring stations for each Member State is sufficiently representative for the purposes of this Decision, that the stations are at points which are representative of water conditions in the area around and not directly and immediately influenced by a source of pollution, that they are capable of measuring at regular intervals the parameters in Annex II, that they are as a general rule not more than 100 kilometres apart on main rivers, not including tributaries, that they are upstream of any confluences and not on tidal stretches of water. 3. The Commission shall inform the Council of any amendments which it has accepted. 4. The Commission shall submit for decision by the Council any requests for amendments which it has been unable to accept.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.