In addition, other appropriate measures must be taken, in particular to ensure that application of pesticides is reduced as far as possible on areas likely to drain off into water supplies, such as on very permeable surfaces or, in contrast, on sealed surfaces with high risk of run-off into surface or ground water.

5. When considered necessary by the competent authority following closure of a waste facility, the operator shall, in particular, control the physical and chemical stability of the facility and minimise any negative environmental effect, in particular with respect to surface and groundwater, by ensuring that:

the waste facility is suitably located, taking into account in particular Community or national obligations relating to protected areas, and geological, hydrological, hydrogeological, seismic and geotechnical factors, and is designed so as to meet the necessary conditions for, in the short and long-term perspectives, preventing pollution of the soil, air, groundwater or surface water, taking into account especially Directives 76/464/EEC , 80/68/EEC and 2000/60/EC, and ensuring efficient collection of contaminated water and leachate as and when required under the permit, and r ...[+++]educing erosion caused by water or wind as far as it is technically possible and economically viable;

However, that Directive is concerned with the prior authorisation of all discharges into, inter alia, inland surface water, territorial waters, internal coastal waters and does not cover the placing on the market of creosote-treated wood, nor does it provide for a general ban on the use of creosote-treated wood in contact with surface water.

However, this Directive is concerned with the prior authorisation of all discharges into inter alia inland surface water, territorial waters, internal coastal waters and does not cover the placing on the market of creosote-treated wood, nor does it provide for a general ban on the use of creosote-treated wood in contact with surface water.

preventing deterioration of ecological status and pollution of surface waters and restoring surface waters, with the aim of achieving good surface water status or, for heavily modified and artificial bodies, good ecological potential and good surface water chemical status, at the latest 16 years after the date of entry into force of this Directive, in all bodies of surface water, in accordance with the provisions laid down in Annex V, subject to the application of extensions determined in accordance with paragraph 3 and to the application of paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 and without prejudice to the relevant ...[+++]international agreements referred to in Article 1 for the parties concerned;