Powerpoint Templates Page 1 Powerpoint Templates Black Sea Basin Directorate – presentation of the scope, responsibilities and project interests Mrs. TANYA MILKOVA Head of “Protection of marine waters and Monitoring” department BLACK SEA BASIN DIRECTORATE - VARNA Launching Conference and Programs’ Information Days 25 – 26 July, 2014 Sofia, Bulgaria

Powerpoint Templates Page 2 Black Sea River Basin District 19 % of the state territory 100% of territorial sea km2 aquatory of the Black sea 378 km coast line length. a

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Powerpoint Templates Page 4 Main responsibilities of the Black Sea Basin Directorate Integrated water management through development and implementation of: River Basin Management Plan acc. to the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and its actualization by Management Plan for flood risk acc. to Directive on the assessment and management of flood risks (FD) - by 2015 Marine Strategy acc. to Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), including: Initial assessment of the marine environment, establishment of ecological criteria, targets and indicators for achieving of good environmental status (GES) by design of monitoring programs by 2014 and its implementation by preparation of programs of measures by 2015 and its implementation by 2016 a

Powerpoint Templates Page 5 Project interests Programme BG02: Interated Marine and Inland Water Management: Call BG02.01: More integrated management of marine and inland water resources: 1.Development/implementation of studies/ tools/ methodologies which could feed into the program of measures (such as tools and studies for cost benefit assessments according to Art. 13 of the MSFD, tools and assessment of effects of measures, tools and assessment of disproportionality). 2. Development of program of measures under Art. 13 at sub-regional and regional level coordinated with the PoM in RBMP (WFD) including measures related to climate changes. 3. Pilot integrated assessment of the pressure and impact and planning of measures in selected areas / water bodies and an estimate of the effect of measures. Call BG02.02: Improved monitoring of marine waters Initial assessment gap filling and enhancing of the marine water monitoring programs through specific investigations like: scanning and mapping of the marine bottom by ROV equipment; pilot study and identification of the basic priority and specific pollutants in the marine environment. Planning, designing and execution of monitoring campaigns (incl., real time monitoring, purchase of equipment). a

Powerpoint Templates Page 6 Project interests Programme BG02: Interated Marine and Inland Water Management: Call BG02.03: Increased capacity for assessing and predicting environmental status in marine and inland waters Developing a methodology for analyzing and evaluating the content of priority substances and specific pollutants in marine biota (D9 - contaminants in marine food, acc. to MSFD) a

Powerpoint Templates Page 7 Scientific institutes, universities and consultant companies with experience in design and implementation of marine waters monitoring – biological, physic-chemical and hydro morphological quality elements and decision making. Potential partners

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