1. Identification on Significant Pressures - Surface Water Bodies
Oldřich Novický; Tomáš Navrátil;
James Hunt – Twinning Project
Ministry of the Environment

2. Twinning Project – Implementation of the Water Framework Directive Project Management - the Czech Republic institutions: Ministry of Environment + Ministry of Agriculture + supporting organisations The Member States: United Kingdom France Austria Experts from Germany have been invited to participate mainly in the preparation of a pilot river basin management plan (the Orlice River Basin).
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3. Twinning Project – Implementation of the Water Framework Directive Components Review of Implementation Plan Secondary Legislation and Transposition analysis sub River Basin Management Plan - Orlice Guidance on Enforcement Guidance on Environmental Monitoring Systems Arrangements for Stakeholder Consultation Started May 2002 – Completion: January 2004
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4. The process of collecting information on pressures:
Directive introduces the concept of significant pressures (important within the basin or the water body).
Directive requires to collect and maintain records on all significant pressures (Member State can collect records on all pressures and subsequently only identify some of them as significant).
The requirement can be implemented in two stages:
        1) Catalogue of all pressures (and driving forces)
        2) Screening to identify significant pressures
Reasons:
- there is a very wide range of pressures (variable type and magnitude)
- it is not sensible or realistic to consider all pressures within the scope of analysis
Method for selection of the important pressures and driving forces is required.
Collecting of informations – two stages

5. all data will be concentrated on Povodí companies
Situation in CR:
wide range of information + many producers, not all necessary data are available yet
all data will be concentrated on Povodí companies
part of data is required to collect by current legislation
( Water Act Water Authorities permits for water uses)
Data providers:
Water Research Institute T.G.M. – pollutions, vulnerable areas, landfills, abstractions, loss of water, water use, hydrogeological characteristics, discharges,
Povodí companies + water authorities – pollutions, fish farming, abstractions, morphological changes, erosion, water recreational use, water managment, discharges
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute – industrial pollution, other diffuse point source pollution, water flow, abstractions, vulnerability of groundwater water bodies, hydrogeological characteristics, stratification,
Situation in CR
Data providers

6. Private water companies – loss of water, sludge treatment
Czech Statistical Institute - agriculture pollution, agriculture abstraction
Czech Ecological Institute – other point source of pollution, toxic pollution, geology + soil types, landfills
Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health – pollutions, fish farming, water quality, land use, water recreational use
Private water companies – loss of water, sludge treatment
Governmental Order – pollution
Problems:
incomplete data (some sources of pollution, water use, …)
providers not identified yet (estimates of diffuse sources pollution)
Data providers
Data problems

7. Screening for Significance
- determination which pressures from the Pressures Catalogue should be considered to be significant Significant Pressures
individual process for each water body
Impact Analysis identification of WB which are at risk of failing the objectives
identification of pressures responsible for this failure subject of the Programmes of Measures
Screening for Significance

8. Pressure Absolute Criteria Relative Criteria
Significance – judged on:
“absolute” criteria – does not take account of the receiving waters
“relative” criteria – take account of the vulnerability or susceptibility of the receiving waters
mixture of absolute and relative criteria
Pressure
Absolute Criteria
Relative Criteria
Point source pollution
Emission Limit Standards
EQSs (Imission standards)
Diffuse source pollution
Best Practice
Abstraction
Volume abstracted
Proportion of „natural flow“ or „minimum flow“ or „ecological flow“
Water Regulation
Size of structures
Size in relation to size of „natural flow“ or „minimum flow“or „ecological flow“
Morphology
Size of alteration
Comparison with „natural morphology“
Absolute and relative criteria

9. Recapitulation of the Directive objectives:
The issue of significance must be considered in relation to all objectives of the Directive.
  Recapitulation of the Directive objectives:
Prevent deterioration of the status of all bodies of surface water;
Protect, enhance and restore all bodies of surface water with the aim of achieving good surface water status at the latest by 2015
Protect and enhance all artificial and heavily modified bodies of water, achieve good ecological potential and good surface water chemical status at the latest by 2015
To progressively reduce pollution from priority substances and ceasing or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses of priority hazardous substances
Directive objectives

10. Thank you for your attention.