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Measures and management challenges

Already in the first RBMPs, several European countries planned measures to improve the ecological conditions of rivers impacted by barriers. The planning of measures in the second RBMPs indicated substantial further effort to improve longitudinal continuity in river basin districts. The most common measures planned in this respect include the building of fish ladders and bypass channels, the removal of artificial structures such as barriers, the setting of ecological flows and measures for sediment management .

The implementation of such measures is closely linked to the environmental objective of the WFD to restore continuity for migrating species in regulated rivers. A number of other EU policies are also supporting the restoration of river continuity and the rehabilitation of surface waters that are impacted by barriers, including the Birds and Habitats Directives (2009/147/EC and 92/43/EEC), the new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 (EC, 2020) and the Eel Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No 1100/2007). The new EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 has actually included a specific commitment to restore at least 25 000 km of free-flowing rivers by 2030 through the removal of primarily obsolete barriers and the restoration of floodplains and wetlands (EC, 2020).

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