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Regulation (EU) 2020/741 on minimum requirements for water reuse has just been published on 5 June 2020 in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This text sets the quality and monitoring requirements for the use of treated urban waste water in agricultural irrigation.
Agricultural irrigation concerns the irrigation of food crops consumed raw, processed food crops and non-food crops.
The operator of the recovery plant must ensure that the treated water obtained meets certain compliance criteria laid down in Annex I of the Regulation.
The quality of reclaimed water is divided into four minimum quality classes rated A, B, C and D. Each class determines the use (crop categories) and method of agricultural irrigation permitted.
