9th meeting of the Floods Working Group Agenda point 5 “FD implementation” WGF 9, 31.3.1.4.2011 Budapest, Hungary. Maria Brättemark, WFD Team, DG ENV.D.1, European Commission

Agenda point 5 “Implementation of the Floods Directive”

Transitional measures (art 13) 13 MS have replied to the letter of 17.12.2011, asking for information on if art 13 would be used 8 have indicated some use of transitional measures PFRA (option 1.a Existing assessment) : LV full, ES partial(3 RBD), DE unclear PFRA (option 1.b straight to mapping/plans) : LU, NL full, BE, UK part of territory, DE unclear Maps : LU full, AT partial, DE unclear Plans : DE unclear For other EU Member States no use of article 13 is assumed.

Administrative arrangements Administrative arrangements (art 3): 25 Member States have communicated information Ireland and Italy have used smaller Units of management than the RBD. Visualisation in WISE in preparation. 221 national parts of RBD, at least 343 Competent authorities… need for strong international coordination in the RBD ! Most reported electronically BG and HU informed that WFD administrative arrangements applies. Other Units of management IT & IE smaller units RO, DE reported sub-units, may be displayed under RBD level but these are not considered UoM as set out in the Directive.

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Thank you for your attention ! More information http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/flood_risk/index.htm Maria Brättemark, Desk officer Floods/WFD, European Commission, DG ENV.D.1 7