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Where, for a given body of groundwater, it is considered that the groundwater quality standards could result in failure to achieve the environmental objectives specified in Article 4 of Directive 2000/60/EC for associated bodies of surface water, or in any significant deterioration of the ecological or chemical quality of such bodies, or in any significant damage to terrestrial ecosystems which depend directly on that body of groundwater, more stringent threshold values shall be established in accordance with Article 3 of and Annex II to this Directive. Provided that a reliable methodology is available to assess the presence of groundwater ecosystems, more stringent quality standards shall also be established for groundwater bodies where such ecosystems are present, unless the groundwater quality standards have been set to protect human health and are already sufficiently strict to protect those ecosystems.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.