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Assessment of the River Basin Management Plans

– preliminary findings

Conference on River Basin Management Planning

Ankara, 28 February 2012

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WFD principles

• Protecting all water bodies, including transitional waters and coastal waters

• Achievement of good status in all water bodies and no deterioration of status

• Integrated planning process at river basin scale

• Comprehensive assessment of pressures, impacts and status, including the ecological perspective

• Economic instruments and water pricing

• Integration of water policy with other policies (agriculture, transport, energy…)

• Public participation and active involvement


WFD - Main objectives and elements

• Good status in 2015• Ecological status • Chemical status • Quantitative status (groundwater)• No deterioration

• Key elements• Water quality defined in terms of biology, chemistry and

morphology• Objectives set in river basin management plans• Programme of measures to achieve objectives as part of plans• Attention paid to socio-economic impacts through a process of duly

justified exemptions

• Integration of measures under other water-related EU legislation, contributing to these objectives

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River basin districts

Diversity of river basins

Many transboundary rivers

Planning process

Transposition, RBD delineation, competent authorities, administrative set-up, coordination arrangements

Characterisation, pressure and impact and economic analysis

Monitoring and assessment

Setting objectives

Programme of measures

Implementation of measures

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State of adoption of river basin management plans

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RBMP adopted (23)

Consultation on-going or not started (4)

(all 4 MS that have not adopted are before the Court)


Transposition into national law Dec 2003Administrative arrangements Dec 2003Environmental analysis:

Analysis of characteristicsAssessment of human impacts

Economic analysis of water use Dec 2004 Monitoring programmes Dec 2006Public Participation starts Dec 2006Significant water management issues Dec 2007Draft river basin management plans Dec 2008Final river basin management plans Dec 2009Measures implemented at the latest Dec 2012Implementation, adjustment 2015 till

2027

WFD Timetable

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Common Implementation Strategy

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EC implementation reports

9

• 1st implementation report (22 March 2007) COM(2007)128 final

– Transposition into national law– Administrative arrangements– Environmental analysis & economic analysis of water use-> Presented at 1st European Water Conference

• 2nd implementation report (1 April 2009)COM(2009)156 final

– Monitoring programmes-> Presented at 2nd European Water Conference, together with a quick

scan of 17 available draft River Basin Management Plans

• 3rd implementation report – end 2012– River basin management plans

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Some general preliminary findings

+ A lot of effort put into preparation of the plans+ High uptake of the common framework and common language on

water management provided by the WFD+ Integration of ecological perspective into water management+ Enhancement of international cooperation+ Public participation, stakeholder involvement+ Impressive improvement in the knowledge base+ Some very good examples in every subject

– Low ambition in many of the plans (extensive use of exemptions)– Lack of concrete measures and expected achievements (but

programme of measures needs to be operational in 2012 only)– Lack of comparability in some issues (e.g. chemical status!)– Dressing “business-as-usual” as WFD

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2012 Blueprint to safeguard Europe’s waters

Nov 2012Blueprint

ToSafeguardEU Waters

Report on 2009River BasinManagement Plans

ReviewWater Scarcity& Droughts Strategy

Climate ChangeVulnerability& Adaptation












Outlook of sustainability

and vulnerability of EU water resources

« Fitness Check»

EU water policy

instruments

Policy Options

• Expected November 2012• Consultation process

• Public consultation to be launched later this year• 3rd European Water Conference http://waterblueprint2012.eu/,

Brussels 24-25 May 2012, back to back to the Green Week

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Thank you for your attention

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