1. Peter Kristensen Europan Environment Agency
The EU water framework Directive typology and EUNIS The EUNIS habitat classification, governance & future developments, 3-4 October, 2011
Peter Kristensen
Europan Environment Agency

3. 170 RBMPs Analysis Other information DG Environment
Blueprint to Safeguard European Waters
Analysis
WFD imple-mentation
Water scarcity & drought
Climate change & water
EEA State of European Water
Synthesis/integrated
Water assessment
Other information
Baseline (Status of waters and pressures affecting them)
Further assessments – e.g. water resource efficiency, water accounts, ecosystem goods and services
Thematic (focused) assessments

4. Some preliminary results (13 MS) ~70 000 inland surface water bodies
58% of the classified European freshwater water bodies have ecological status or potential less than good
The percentage of freshwater water bodies with less than good ecological status or potential ranges from 33% in Finland to 100% in Belgium
In 10 of the 13 countries the percentage of water bodies with ecological status or potential less than good is higher than 50%

5. C : Inland surface waters
C1 : Surface standing waters
C1.1 : Permanent oligotrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.2 : Permanent mesotrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.3 : Permanent eutrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.4 : Permanent dystrophic lakes, ponds and pools
C1.5 : Permanent inland saline and brackish lakes, ponds and pools
C1.6 : Temporary lakes, ponds and pools
C1.7 : Permanent lake ice
C2 : Surface running waters
C2.1 : Springs, spring brooks and geysers
C2.2 : Permanent non-tidal, fast, turbulent watercourses
C2.3 : Permanent non-tidal, smooth-flowing watercourses
C2.4 : Tidal rivers, upstream from the estuary
C2.5 : Temporary running waters
C2.6 : Films of water flowing over rocky watercourse margins
C3 : Littoral zone of inland surface waterbodies
C3.1 : Species-rich helophyte beds
C3.2 : Water-fringing reedbeds and tall helophytes other than canes
C3.3 : Water-fringing beds of tall canes
C3.4 : Species-poor beds of low-growing water-fringing or amphibious vegetation
C3.5 : Periodically inundated shores with pioneer and ephemeral vegetation
C3.6 : Unvegetated or sparsely vegetated shores with soft or mobile sediments
C3.7 : Unvegetated or sparsely vegetated shores with non-mobile substrates
C3.8 : Inland spray- and steam-dependent habitats

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C2.3 : Permanent non-tidal, smooth-flowing watercourses
C2.31 : Epipotamal streams
C2.32 : Metapotamal and hypopotamal streams
C2.33 : Mesotrophic vegetation of slow-flowing rivers
C2.34 : Eutrophic vegetation of slow-flowing rivers

7. Water body typologies
The Water Framework Directive covers all waters, including inland waters (surface water and groundwater) and transitional and coastal waters up to one sea mile (and for the chemical status also territorial waters which may extend up to 12 sea miles) from the territorial baseline of a Member State, independent of the size and the characteristics (Articles 2 (1) (2) and (3)).
WFD Annex II: 1.1 (ii)
For each surface water category, the relevant surface water bodies within the river basin district shall be differentiated according to type. These types are those defined using either "system A" or "system B" identified in Section 1.2.

8. Water bodies Surface water bodies
A surface water body is a section of a river, a lake, transitional waters or coastal waters.
Member States identify separate water bodies at the scale needed to manage the objectives of the directive.
Each surface water body has distinguishing features – in particular, its geology and the pollution and other pressures it faces - that set it apart from other sections of the same river, lake, transitional or coastal water.

9. System A – standard boundaries for all MS
Rivers - Catchment > 10 km2
Lakes – Area > 0.5 km2
Ecoregion
Altitude <200, & > 800 m
R: size of catchment
L: size and depth
Geology of catchment

11. System B – MS adapted system
Rivers
Lakes
Obligatory factors: Altitude, Long/latitude, geology, size
Optinal factors: Size, water quality, flow etc.

12. Intercalibation types
19 river types: 2 alpine; 6 central/Baltic; 2 eastern Continental; 4 Mediterranean & 4 Northern
15 lake types: 1 Atlantic; 2 alpine; 3 central/Baltic; 2 Mediterranean & 7 Northern
Example Rivers, Alpine

13. Typology of Great Britain lakes
24 GB lake types based on geology, dept, and size. Total 2348 lakes
8 types with < 10 lakes; 9 types with lakes; and 7 types with more than 100 lakes – 85 % of total
Siliceous – deep
Calcareous, Deep & Shallow
Source: UKTAG

14. Typology German rivers
Germany – Fließgewässertypen
9074 river water bodies avg. length 14 km
25 types

16. Weser RBD

17. Sweden

18. 4. South Baltic Sea (Sweden)

19. Heavily Modified and Artificial Water Bodies
HMWB are bodies of water which as a result of physical alterations by human activity are substantially changed in character and cannot, therefore, meet the "good ecological status" (GES).
AWB are surface water bodies which have been created in a location where no water body existed before and which have not been created by the direct physical alteration, movement or realignment of an existing water body.

20. Hydromorphological pressures

22. Navigation
Storage
Flood protection & drainage
Source:

24. DG environment study – comparison of typologies
20 MS have reported RBMPs – Rivers and lakes more than 800 types
Start October 2011 – results first half 2012
Comparison of methodologies used (incl. biological validation) – System A or B; factors (altitude, size etc.) taken into account.
Overview of the different types used
Some types may be very specific and not relevant at EU level
Others may not be directly comparable due to methodology used
List of the main/most frequent types and
Most common shared types
Results on status and pressures related to the main/most frequent types and most common shared types
Ecological status/potential
Main pressures e.g. diffuse pollution for lowland streams
Deliverables: technical report and database

25. Thanks for your attention

26. Macrophytes
Chironomides
Diatoms