Part 7: Nutrient Pollution Standards 96G Nutrient pollution standards determined through environmental permitting
Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to designate a sensitive catchment area as a catchment permitting area.
	Subsection (2) specifies that when determining whether to designate a catchment permitting area, or revoke such a designation, the Secretary of State may take into account, in particular, advice from, or guidance published by, the Environment Agency or Natural England.
	Where the Secretary of State has designated a catchment permitting area, subsection (3) requires the Environment Agency to review the environmental permits for nutrient significant plants in the catchment as well as other plants the Environment Agency considers appropriate, and apply conditions on those permits relating to nutrients in treated effluent for the "relevant purpose".
	Subsection (4) defines the "relevant purpose" to ensure that, by a specified date, the overall effect on the habitats site of nutrient pollution from plants across the catchment is the same as, or better than, the overall effect if all non-exempt nutrient significant plants were upgraded to the nutrient pollution standard.
	Subsection (5) clarifies the conditions applied to environmental permits under subsection (3) may impose the same, or a different concentration of nitrogen and/or phosphorus as the standard nutrient pollution concentration and may relate to any or all plants mentioned in the subsection (3)(a).
	Subsection (6) defines various terms relevant to subsection (4). The "applicable date" means 1 April 2030, provided the associated sensitive catchment area designation takes effect during the initial period, or the date specified if the sensitive catchment area designation takes effect after the initial period.
	Subsection (7) specifies how the duty in subsection (3) applies in relation to the granting of an environmental permit for a plant that discharges (or will discharge) treated effluent into the catchment permitting area.
	Subsection (8) specifies that it is for the Environment Agency to determine the overall effect on a habitats site of nutrients in treated effluent.
	Subsection (9) allows the Secretary of State to make regulations specifying how the overall effect on a habitats site is to be determined.
	Subsection (10) defines the term "nutrients" in relation to this section.