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Sustainable navigation strategies and guidelines are being introduced on the EU, national and even regional/river basin level (see examples of European guidelines and national or regional programmes and strategies for sustainable inland navigation in section 3.2.4). These strategies and guidelines call for sustainable navigation across inland waters through a variety of cross-cutting criteria and measures. These include preservation of river banks, stringent fuel standards, more efficient infrastructures to reduce navigation times and the coupling of waterways with external activities, such as sustainable tourism. At the same time, the Trans European Transport Network (TEN-T) seeks to integrate inland navigation among the sustainable means of transportation in the EU by 2030 and calls for European navigable waterways to attain “good navigation status” (GNS). While the concept of GNS evolves and guidelines for its achievement (Muilerman et al., 2018)[1] are applied, further efforts are needed to ensure that the WFD objectives of good ecological status or potential and the concept of GNS are coherent (CIS WFD, 2017).[2]

[1] Muilerman, G. J. Et al. (2018), Good Navigation Status, Guidelines towards achieving a Good Navigation Status. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2018.

[2] CIS WFD, 2017, Workshop report, Workshop on mitigation measures and GEP for Inland Navigation water use, 29th – 30th June 2017.

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