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These Regulations prescribe a system for classifying the quality of inland freshwaters, coastal waters and relevant territorial waters with a view to reducing the pollution of those waters by the dangerous substances listed in the Schedules to the Regulations (regs. 2 and 3 and Schedules 1 and 2). Those substances are substances within List II of Council Directive 76/464/EC[5. The Regulations are made in order to establish water quality objectives for those substances for the purposes of Article