1. 9th meeting of the Floods Working Group
Agenda point 5 “FD implementation”
WGF 9,
Budapest, Hungary.
Maria Brättemark, WFD Team, DG ENV.D.1, European Commission

2. Agenda point 5 “Implementation of the Floods Directive”

3. Transitional measures (art 13)
13 MS have replied to the letter of , asking for information on if art 13 would be used
8 have indicated some use of transitional measures
PFRA (option 1.a Existing assessment) :
LV full, ES partial(3 RBD), DE unclear
PFRA (option 1.b straight to mapping/plans) :
LU, NL full, BE, UK part of territory, DE unclear
Maps :
LU full, AT partial, DE unclear
Plans :
DE unclear
For other EU Member States no use of article 13 is assumed.

4. Administrative arrangements
Administrative arrangements (art 3):
25 Member States have communicated information
Ireland and Italy have used smaller Units of management than the RBD.
Visualisation in WISE in preparation.
221 national parts of RBD, at least 343 Competent authorities… need for strong international coordination in the RBD !
Most reported electronically
BG and HU informed that WFD administrative arrangements applies.
Other Units of management
IT & IE smaller units
RO, DE reported sub-units, may be displayed under RBD level but these are not considered UoM as set out in the Directive.

5. WISE viewer

6. Directive interactive
Floods
Directive interactive
maps
WISE viewer

7. Thank you for your attention !
More information
Maria Brättemark, Desk officer Floods/WFD, European Commission, DG ENV.D.1 7