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Implementation of measures
To meet the objective of good status, the WFD requires an assessment of all the pressures in a river basin, and the development of a Programme of Measures (PoMs) to tackle them. The first RBMPs contained a large number of diverse measures. By now, many of the several thousand individual measures in the first RBMPs will have been completed. However, some measures have been delayed or even not started mainly due to funding constraints, while other measures have been difficult to implement.
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BE-FLA (RV): p. 9, §3 Measures completed
Having read the report, this leads to the conclusion that, after completion of numerous measures, little has changed (cf. p. 21: limited improvement of ecological status) and it is still waiting for the effects.
With regard to the implementation/funding of measures it should be mentioned that Member States should aim for cost-efficient measures and that Member States can justify exemptions in case of disproportionate costs.
For a reader it will not be clear if ‘several thousands’ is a lot or actually not even enough. It gives an impression that MS have planned all the necessary measures, which is not the case.
Referring also to the sentence that follows, many times measures that have been planned are not adequate or appropriate for the pressure they are targeting. It is also not clear what is meant by ‘difficult to implement’; often it is due to lack of political will, which either leads to not adequate measures planned, or them being delayed (due to use of exemptions) or simply not implemented, or them not being funded.