Article 6

1. The Commission shall make a comparative assessment of the implementation of this Directive by Member States on the basis of information supplied to it by them pursuant to Article 13 of Directive 76/464/EEC at its request, which it must submit case by case. The information concerned shall, in particular, comprise: -details of authorizations laying down emission standards for discharges of the substances, -the inventory of the substances discharged into the waters referred to in Article 1 (2), -compliance with either the limit values or the quality objectives set out under headings A and B of Annex II, -the results of the monitoring referred to in Article 4 of the area of the aquatic environment which is affected by discharges, -the specific elimination programmes referred to in Article 5. 2. The Commission shall forward the comparative assessment referred to in paragraph 1 to the Council every five years, and for the first time four years after notification of this Directive. 3. Should there be a change in scientific knowledge relating principally to the toxicity, persistence and accumulation of the substances referred to in Article 2 (a) in living organisms and sediments, or in the event of an improvement in the best technical means available, the Commission shall submit appropriate proposals to the Council with the aim of making the limit values and the quality objectives more stringent, if appropriate, or of establishing new limit values and additional quality objectives.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-05 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.