Update of the census of discharges from land to sea (year 2017)

Articles 254 and 254 bis of Royal Decree 849/1986 of 11 April 1986 approving the Regulation on the Public Hydraulic Domain, which implements preliminary titles I, IV, V, VI and VII of Law 29/1985 of 2 August 1985 on Water, establish the need for basin bodies to carry out a census of authorised discharges, including discharges from land to sea according to data provided by the Autonomous Communities. That census refers only to authorised discharges, and information on discharges from land to sea authorised on 31 December of the previous year is sent to the Ministry responsible for the environment each year before 31 March.