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The degradation of freshwater ecosystems, water abstraction and scarcity, as well as nutrient and chemical pollution are key European water management challenges which affect a large share of European water bodies as described in section 3. To address these management challenges, targets and goals are set in European strategies as part of the Green Deal and of other major EU policies previously adopted. The set EU targets and goals are linked to a number of management responses and measures, which are required by a broad set of EU environmental directives. These linkages are illustrated in  Figure 18.

Figure 18          Overview of key European water management challenges, defined EU goals and targets as well as management responses addressing the challenges

 

 

Notes: HD=Habitats Directive, BD=Birds Directive, IAS=Invasive Alien Species, FD=Floods Directive, ND=Nitrates Directive, WFD=Water Framework Directive, BWD=Bathing Water Directive, UWWTD=Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, DWD=Drinking Water Directive, PD=sustainable use of pesticides Directive, IED=Industrial Emissions Directive.  

To meet EU targets and goals on water resources and aquatic ecosystems, greater coherence is needed in the specific objectives and management responses of the relevant EU directives and policies. To implement the Green Deal, better harmonization and more effective coordination is needed between management responses, planning and implementation of measures in particular nature conservation plans, programmes of measures under the WFD and FD and other management plans and strategies with implications for pressures on water.

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