Part A

Directive (EU) 2020/2184 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on the quality of water intended for human consumption (recast) (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

The methods of analysis for microbiological parameters are: Escherichia coli (E. coli) and coliform bacteria (EN ISO 9308-1 or EN ISO 9308-2); intestinal enterococci (EN ISO 7899-2); colony count or heterotrophic plate counts at 22 °C (EN ISO 6222); Clostridium perfringens including spores (EN ISO 14189); Legionella (EN ISO 11731 for compliance with the value in Part D of Annex I); for risk-based verification monitoring and to complement culture methods, in addition methods, such as ISO/TS 12869, rapid culture methods, non-culture-based methods, and molecular-based methods, in particular qPCR, can be used; somatic coliphages; for operational monitoring, Part A of Annex II, EN ISO 10705-2, and EN ISO 10705-3 can be used.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.