Reforms to The Bathing Water Regulations 2013

We want to know what you think about:

• Removal of Automatic De-Designation after five consecutive ‘poor’ classifications.
• Updates to the designation criteria of bathing sites
• Removal of fixed dates for the bathing season

We also need your views on proposed technical amendments, as well as potential future reforms on:

• the definition of ‘bathers’
• the introduction of multiple monitoring points at bathing sites

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Welsh Government may respond differently to the outcomes of the consultation.