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EU strategies, policy targets and management responses:

• Key management challenges for European waters are addressed by targets of EU strategies and policy initiatives, which are further operationalized in management responses of different water and environmental directives. Management responses to tackle key water management issues need to become more coherent and harmonized and this is one of the ambitions of new EU strategies and goals in the context of the European Green Deal. To achieve this, to promote cross-cutting solutions and to mobilize resources, clear links need to be established between EU strategy targets and binding requirements for implementing environmental Directives on the ground.
• More coherence and harmonization of different policies to reach targets and goals of the EU strategies can be achieved by harmonization of programmes of measures, enhancing the use of multi-benefit measures, focusing more on ecosystem-based management and using catchment-based approaches.