1. Network of Pilot River Basins On Agriculture Work progress
SSG on WFD and Agriculture
30 April 2008, Brussels

2. List of Pilot River Basins
Denmark
Danish PRB Network
Estonia
Pandivere
Germany
Weser
Greece
Evrotas
Hungary/Romania
Cris / Koros
Italy
PRB being designed
Malta
Norway
Morsa
Spain
Guadalquivir UK
Ten river catchments

3. Identified issues
What agricultural measures prove cost-effective and need to be promoted in RBMP and PoM?
How is the level of ambition of the measures set up in order to meet WFD objectives?
What are the key steps towards the setting up of the RBMP?
How to ensure a right implementation of RBMP? How to raise farmer awareness?
How can RBMP monitoring and evaluation be best organised?
How are impacts of climate change and new technologies/crops taken into account in RBMP?

4. Main objectives of 2008-2009 phase
(1) Networking on agricultural measures
(2) Refinement of the catalogue of measures
(3) Development of web platform in order to exchange on the content of the PoM and good examples

5. (1) Networking on agricultural measures
6-7 May 2008
UK river catchments
Measures and how to select them Presentation of England initiative Exchanges between PRBs
Fall 2008
Evrotas (Greece)
Setting up of RBMP
Water quantity issues
Spring 2009
Weser (Germany)
RBMP implementation – Outcomes of 2-year local project – Nutrient pollution
Fall 2009
DK PRB Network
Monitoring and evaluation of measures – Impacts of climate change – New technologies/biofuels
Spring 2010
To be defined
Event to present PRBs outcomes – Open to SSG on WFD and Agri

6. (2) Refinement of the catalogue of measures
All PRB contributions will serve as inputs to the catalogue of measures.
JRC will update the catalogue after each event and will add more information on costs, effectiveness and benefits of measures.

7. (3) Development of Web Platform
DG ENV and JRC in charge of specifying the conditions of development.
The objective is to ensure rapid exchange of information in the river basin community.
Possibility of downloading reports, data, etc
Organisation of on-line discussion groups?