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7.1       Needs for integrated water resources management

EU water legislation places the river basin management approach at the core of water management policy. Countries draft River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) in line with WFD, either for selected rivers or for the whole country, many with international support. For example, Belarus and Ukraine prepared the Upper Dnieper River Basin Draft River Management Plan with the support of the European Union and EPIRB Environmental Protection of International River Basins (Koszta et al., 2016). With the EPIRB project support and that of the European Union Water Initiative Plus for the Eastern Partnership (EUWI+, 2019), ENI East countries are improving knowledge and skills for development of elements of RBMPs. These include: water body delineation and typology, classification of status of water bodies based on available data, identification of data and information gaps to improve monitoring, identification of pressures and development of programs of measures, public involvement, and awareness raising activities. The main beneficiaries of these projects are the environment ministries, which gives hope that ENI East countries will soon start establishing management plans themselves.