1. Thierry davy Representative of the french water agencies
Cost effectiveness analysis : State of play Bonn workshop 8 and 9 of May 2006
Thierry davy
Representative of the french water agencies

2. Drafting group on CEA
A final document on CEA will be presented to the WD directors by June 2006 (already on CIRCA)
This document will contain 3 parts:
A policy summary
A state play of CEA in MS, PRB and for stakeholders
A first analysis of key issues and existing methodologies

3. The organisation of the work
In 21 December 2005 due to the few data and examples coming from MS, PRB and stakeholders, a meeting on CEA has been held with presentations on the state of play
Today 13 MS, 2 stakeholders and 5 PRB have sent their state of play on CEA
The lessons on CEA
Everybody interested and working on it
No “integrated methodology” existing at this time (multicriteria and multiparameter)
Partial testings and handbooks existing in some countries, a lot of ongoing activities in the month and years to come

4. Some key issues for cost effectiveness
The scale
The uncertainity
The effectiveness of the measures
The CEA in the planning process
Implementing CEA for international RB
Link of cost effectiveness with disproportionate costs and exemptions …

5. The existing documents on CEA
The German handbook
The Dutch Handbook
The French Thesaurus + guidelines on key issues
Some case studies: Odense in Denmark, Seine Normandie in France,…
But no real integrated case study available today

6. The future of the CEA
A lot of countries and PRB will be testing the CEA during 2006 and 2007:
Denmark
Norway
Finland
Sweden Uk
France
Spain
Italy,…

7. The future of the CEA
They will be a need to confront the results of the tested methodologies.
These methodologies should be:
Multisectorial
Cover upstream/downstream
Cover international river basin
Prepare the discussion on disproportionate costs
Improve the results during the 1st RBMP