Navigation
Notifications
Post a comment on the text below
1. EEA State of Water assessment and EU water policy context
Key messages
- The Water Framework Directive requires EU Member States to achieve good status in all bodies of surface water and groundwater, in principle by 2015. Achieving good status involves meeting certain standards for the ecology, chemistry, and quantity of waters.
You cannot post comments to this consultation because you are not authenticated. Please log in.
Previous comments
"The Water Framework Directive requires EU Member States to achieve good status in all bodies of surface water and groundwater, in principle by 2015." could be replaced as follows "The Water Framework Directive requires EU Member States to achieve good status in all bodies of surface water and groundwater by 2015 unless there are grounds for exemption."
it is suggested that
......Achieving good status involves meeting certain standards for the ecology, chemistry, and quantity of waters.
to be changed into
...... Achieving good status involves meeting certain standards for the biology, chemistry, and hydromorphology of waters.
Some information that might be useful for this Chapter: Information for some MS you might find useful, also supporting our arguments for changing some of the text on reasons for status of EU waters (as outlined above): - DE (only 64% of GW in good status; 8% of SW in GES; 100% of surface water are failing to achieve good chemical status); - ES ((1) cca 2% of the SW bodies are of unknown ecological status; up to 5% of the SW bodies in unknown chemical status; GW bodies are said to be all monitored, and there are 25% failing to achieve good quantitative status and 35% failing to achieve good chemical status. (2) No monitoring, with the exception perhaps of the Duero basin, has taken place in the last years regarding hymo parameters. (3) Some progress made regarding the update or completion of pressures inventory; however no progress made in understanding better the relationship between pressures-impact and status. (4) Most of the 1st RMBPs/PoM measures have not been fully implemented, thus no results as regards improvement in WBs status could be estimated). - RO (from the 1st to the 2nd cycle RO simply downgraded the status of about a hundred WBs from high ecological status to good, so there is now 1 WB in high status; that should be taken into account in presenting the results).