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Guidance on using the DWI Portal to upload Enforcement Reports

Note, this is currently for drinking water quality legal instruments and acknowledged actions only. NIS and SEMD reports should be uploaded to the Enforcement area on Resilience Direct.

Milestone and Annual Reports

  1. After logging into the portal, click Data Load (in the top-right corner) and then Legal Instrument Docs (on the sub-menu that appears).
  2. A list of all of your company’s live legal instruments is shown. If the one you require is not shown, please contact the DWI Enforcement Team.
  3. Alongside the legal instrument, details of change applications and then reporting stages are show. Click the magnifying glass on the right hand side, to open the reporting stages view.
  4. You will now be shown a list of all due milestone and annual reports, with details of uploaded files where applicable.
    Annual reports, will show the reporting month and year, with a target submission date of 31 January the following year. For example, annual reports due in January 2026 will be titled “2025 December report”.
    Completion reports will all be titled “Final Report”.
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  5. Click the magnifying glass to the right of the report you wish to upload. Audit strategies can be amended at any time and a new version uploaded to us. To do this, instead click the Create Audit Strategy button.
  6. Click Choose File, then select your file and upload it. Multiple files may be uploaded against a single reporting line.
    For additional audit strategies, you will also be required to enter a report title and a description. Use these to tell us briefly why a new audit strategy is being uploaded.
  7. The reports summary will now be updated, showing details of the reports uploaded. No further action is required.

Change Applications

  1. After logging into the portal, click Data Load (in the top-right corner) and then Legal Instrument Docs (on the sub-menu that appears).
  2. A list of all of your company’s live legal instruments is shown. If the one you require is not shown, please contact the DWI Enforcement Team.
    A screenshot of a computer AI-generated content may be incorrect.
  3. Alongside the legal instrument, details of change applications and then reporting stages are show. Click the magnifying glass in the centre, to open the change applications view.
  4. A summary of existing change applications is shown for the selected legal instrument (if there are any) and 2 button appear below the table;
    Add NEW Stage 1 Change Application
    Add NEW Stage 2 Change Application

    Change applications generally have two stages. Stage 1 is the early heads up that a change may be required. Stage 2 is then the full detail and justification of all of the changes being requested. Occasionally, stage 1 is skipped and a stage 2 may be submitted on its own.
  5. To log a new Stage 1 change application
    1. Click the Add NEW Stage 1 Change application
    2. Enter the date by which you expect to submit stage 2.
    3. Click Choose File and select the file to upload.
    4. Click Upload.
    5. A stage 1 change application is now set up against your chosen legal instrument and submitted to us for review.
  6. To log a new stage 2 change application, where there is no stage 1 application. Note, do not use this route if there is an existing stage 1 change application for this change. Instead, follow step 7 below,
    1. Click the Add NEW Stage 2 Change application
    2. Enter the date by which you expect to submit stage 2.
    3. Click Choose File and select the file to upload.
    4. Click Upload.
    5. A stage 2 change application is now set up against your chosen legal instrument and submitted to us for review.
  7. To log a stage 2 change application alongside an existing stage 1 change.
    1. Find the change application line you want, in the table of change applications for the selected legal instrument.
    2. In the right hand column, under stage 2, attach document, there is a plus symbol. Click this.
    3. Click Choose file and select the file to upload.
    4. Click Upload.
    5. A stage 2 change application is now set up against your chosen legal instrument, linked to the existing stage 1 application and submitted to us for review.

Annual Summary Reports

  1. After logging into the portal, click Data Load (in the top-right corner) and then Legal Instrument Annual Summary (on the sub-menu that appears).
  2. A list of all the company’s live legal instruments is displayed. Each will state the status of the last annual report and contains a drop-down box to tell us if it is on track or not. Select Yes or No.
  3. Repeat for all required legal instrument and then click Save and confirm your selections (in the top, right hand corner).
  4. Note, not all need to be done in a single session. You can return multiple times to update further statuses. Next to the company name is a Outstanding Only tick box. Ticking this and clicking the Filter button (top, right hand corner) will cause the screen to only display those notices for which the current annual declaration is has not been entered.
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