How close are we in the Water Framework Directive’s Implementation ? Paul C.M. Frintrop Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste-Water Treatment.

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How close are we in the Water Framework Directive’s Implementation ? Paul C.M. Frintrop Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste-Water Treatment – RIZA Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management – The Netherlands

Pilot Program for the Implementation of the UN/ECE – Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers Identification and review of Water Management Issues Bug – Morava – Mures/Maros

WFD - consideration 35 This directive is to contribute to the implementation of …, notably the UN Convention on the protection and use of transboundary water courses and international lakes

EU-WFD in a nutshell Goal: Ecological restoration of river basins Measures: reducing of discharges morphological adaptions Action: River Basin Management Plans Progress: Monitoring of relevant parameters Ready:

Bad statusGood status Bad status Poor status Moderate status (differs moderately from type specific conditions) Good status (slight changes from type spec. conditions) High status (close to undisturbed conditions) Chemical status Ecological status target status max. ecol. potential reference biotic elements abiotic elements Water-quality status = Chemical status + Ecological status / potential Ecological assessment (EU Water Framework Directive) classification & presentation yardstick

Good Chemical Status Compliance with all the Environmental Quality Standards (= EQS):  Annex 9 (= Hg, Cd, HCH, + Dangerous Substances Discharges Directive)  Annex 10 (= Priority (Hazardous) Substances)  Other chemical pollutants discharged in significant quantities

Physico-chemical Quality Elements Specific synthetic pollutants : Good status: concentrations not in excess of the Environmental Quality Objectives High status: concentrations close to zero and at least below the limits of detection of the most advanced analytical techniques in general use (Annex 5)

Shifting targets ? The Commission shall review the adopted list of priority substances at the latest 4 years after the date of entry into force and at least every 4 years thereafter

How close are we in the Water Framework Directive’s Implementation ? How close are we to the Horizon ?

Some results of the 3 pilots Good co-operation between the riparian countries in writing their combined reports Consensus about the ecological function Clear descriptions of the main problems and causes

Some results of the 3 pilots The main problems are: insufficient (collection and) treatment of waste water diffuse input of N and P in some cases also the discharges of heavy metals (mining)

Some results of the 3 pilots Incomplete picture of the occurrence of priority (hazardous) substances, due to time differences of the surveys (1999) and the proposal for Annex X (2000)

Conclusions The established good co-operation between the riparian countries for implementing the UN/ECE – Guidelines is a solid basis for implementing the Water Framework Directive

Conclusions The UN/ECE – Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Rivers offer much more than its title suggests: The water management analysis is also a backbone for the WFD – River Basin Management Plan.