The main aim of the European Union’s (EU) water policy is to ensure that a sufficient quantity of good quality water is available for people's needs and for the environment. Since the first water directives in the 1970s the EU has worked to create an effective and coherent water policy. The Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000, establishes a framework for the assessment, management, protection and improvement of the quality of water resources across the EU.
Since December 2015, EU Member States have been publishing the second River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for achieving the environmental objectives of the WFD. They are an update of the first RBMPs that were published in 2009. In summer 2017, 25 Member States had reported into Water Information System for Europe (WISE). The WISE-WFD database includes data from the first and second RBMPs. In 2018, the European Commission will publish its report on the assessment of the second RBMPs and will start the process of evaluating the Water Framework Directive[1]. To accompany and inform this process, the EEA has produced this report on the 'State of Europe's water' along with presentation of more detailed WFD results in WISE.
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BE-FLA (RV): p. 4, §3 Production SOW report
Please add that chapters 1-5 are completely based on the WFD RBMPs and not on other data bases or information sources. Chapter 6 provides additional information obtained from other EU directives reportings, EEA data sets, Eurostat etc.
it is suggested to be changed into
........The Water Framework Directive (WFD), which came into force in 2000, establishes a framework for the assessment, management, protection and improvement of the status quality of water resources across the EU.
it is suggested that the below sentence be clarified -it is about reviewing process of WFD?
In 2018, the European Commission will publish its report on the assessment of the second RBMPs and will start the process of evaluating the Water Framework Directive
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Since December 2015, EU Member States have been publishing the second River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for achieving about the achievment of the environmental objectives of the WFD.