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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
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WFD - Main objectives and elements
• Good status in 2015
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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
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Planning process
Implementation of measures
Programme of measures
Setting objectives
Monitoring and assessment
Characterisation, pressure and
impact and economic analysis
Transposition, RBD delineation,
competent authorities, administrative
set-up, coordination arrangements
State of adoption of river basin management plans
RBMP adopted (23)
Consultation on-going
or not started (4)
(all 4 MS that have not adopted
are before the Court) 
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WFD Timetable
Transposition into national law
Administrative arrangements
Environmental analysis:
Analysis of characteristics
Assessment of human impacts
Economic analysis of water use
Monitoring programmes
Public Participation starts
Significant water management issues
Draft river basin management plans
Final river basin management plans
Measures implemented at the latest
Implementation, adjustment
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Dec 2003
Dec 2003
Dec 2004
Dec 2006
Dec 2006
Dec 2007
Dec 2008
Dec 2009
Dec 2012
2015 till 2027
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Common Implementation Strategy
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EC implementation reports
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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
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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
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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
Report
on 2009
Report
2009
Report onon
2009
River Basin
River Basin
River
Basin
Management
Management
Plans
Management
Plans
Plans
« Fitness
Check»
Review
Review
Review
Water Scarcity
Water Scarcity
Water
Scarcity EU water
& Droughts
policy
&
Droughts
Strategy
&Strategy
Droughts
Strategy
instruments
Climate
Change
Climate Change
Vulnerability
Vulnerability
&
& Adaptation
Adaptation
Outlook of
sustainability
and
vulnerability
of EU water
resources
Policy
Options
Nov 2012
Blueprint
To
Safeguard
EU Waters
• Expected November 2012
• Consultation process
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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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