Consultation in relation to the draft Water Intended for Human Consumption (Private Supplies) (Scotland) Regulations 2017

For your views on proposals to transpose, for private water supplies, Directive (EU) 2015/1787 (the Amending Directive), which makes some changes to Directive 98/83/EC (the Drinking Water Directive), by means of a new set of regulations for private supplies subject to the Directive (previously known as “Type A” supplies) replacing the Private Water Supplies (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

You broadly supported transposing the Amending Directive through the draft Water Intended for Human Consumption (Private Supplies) (Scotland) Regulations 2107, but a significant number of respondents to the consultation thought that the additional responsibilities placed on private water suppliers by the draft regulations and the amount of information to be included in the register of private supplies were too onerous, and the new way of defining the relevant persons in relation to private supplies was unnecessarily complicated.

In addition to some further modifications to the draft regulations informed by the consultation responses, we removed the additional responsibilities on private water suppliers, reduced the amount of information to be recorded in the register and simplified the definition of relevant person in the revised regulations, which were laid before Parliament on 7 September 2017.