S.L. 549.53 Art. 2Interpretation.

(1) Unless otherwise stated in these regulations, the definitions of the Environment Protection Act shall apply.

(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Environment Protection Act; "background level" means the concentration of a substance or the value of an indicator in a body of groundwater corresponding to no, or only very minor, anthropogenic alterations to undisturbed conditions; "baseline level” means the average value measured at least during the reference years 2007 and 2008 on the basis of monitoring programmes implemented under the Water Policy Framework Regulations or, in the case of substances identified after these reference years, during the first period for which a representative period of monitoring data is available; "groundwater" means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil;

"groundwater quality standard" means an environmental quality standard expressed as the concentration of a particular pollutant, group of pollutants or indicator of pollution in groundwater, which should not be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment;

"input of pollutants into groundwater" means the direct or indirect introduction of pollutants into groundwater as a result of human activity; "officer" means and includes any person engaged by, detailed for duty with, or in any manner whatsoever performing duties for or on behalf of the Unit; "significant and sustained upward trend" means any statistically and environmentally significant increase of concentration of a pollutant, group of pollutants, or indicator of pollution in groundwater for which trend reversal is identified as being necessary in accordance with these regulations; "the Unit" means the Energy and Water Agency established by the Energy and Water Agency (Establishment as an Agency) Order; "threshold value" means a groundwater quality standard set by the Unit in terms of these regulations.