1. Update on legal issues Strategic Coordination Group 23 February 2010
Maria Brättemark
WFD Team, DG ENV.D.1, European Commission

2. Transposition of new acts
Groundwater Directive (2006/118/EC) Deadline :
Notifications : Absent (CZ, DE, LU) Partial (BE, DK, EE)
Of these, reasoned opinions sent to : BE, DK, CZ, EE.
Next step : Application to court, with proposed fine – Lisbon Treaty change !
Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) Deadline !
Notifications received from :
Complete (DK, DE, LT, LV, NL, SK, SE) Partial (CZ, LU, UK)
20 letters formal notice sent on to (+ no complete notification since) : AT, BE, BG, EE, FI, IE, EL, ES, FR, IT, CY, HU, MT, PL, PT, RO, SI.
EQS Directive (2008/105/EC) Deadline
Notifications received from : Full (IE, NL) Partial (LV)
Directive on chemical analysis (2009/90/EC) Deadline

3. Non-conformity Directive 2000/60/EC Non-conformity cases :
20 Letters of Formal Notice sent (BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IE, LT, LV, HU, NL, PL, RO, SI, SK, SE, UK)
Cases closed : SI, LV
Under review : IT, LU
Additional Letter of Formal Notice : DK, EE.
Reasoned Opinion : CZ, FR, RO
Follow up under consideration : DE, FI, IE, HU, LT, PL, SE, SK, UK…
Water services still an issue of concern… some cases frozen apart from Water Services.
Directive 2007/60/EC and 2006/118/EC :
Conformity assessments have started. 3

4. River Basin Management Plans State of play February 2010
Reminder of deadlines :
: start of consultations draft RBMP
: publication of RBMP
: Reporting to the Commission
Published : CZ, DE, FI, FR, LU, LV, NL, RO, SE, SK, UK
Adopted and not yet published? : AT, BG, EE, IE, HU, LT, PL + NO
Consultation status :
Member States consultations still ongoing : IT, SI, DK.
Partial consultation : BE (1 out of 4), ES (22 out of 24) not started !
Not yet started ! EL, MT, PT - CY (Feb-Sep 2010 ?)
This Conference is held in the middle of the consultation period foreseen in the WFD for the draft river basin management plans, that should have been published by 22 December countries have published their draft plans to date, 3 more for some RBDs only. 9 countries have not published the draft plans yet.
According to the survey made by the consultants, draft plans published in HU, RO and SK show important gaps and are incomplete on important aspects. Some like HU indicate the intention to publish a more complete draft plan later on. 4