Table of contents

• Guidance to reader
• General comments
• Executive summary
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Aims of this report
• 1.2 Policy context
• 1.3 Structure of report
• 2 Status and pressures of Europe’s waters in 2nd RBMPs
• 2.1 Improvements in monitoring and assessment
• 2.2 Surface waters: Status and pressures
• 2.3 Groundwater: Status and pressures
• 2.4 Overall progress since the first RBMPs
• 3 Selected European key water management challenges
• 3.1 Pollution
• 3.2 Hydromorphological pressures
• 3.3 Abstractions and water scarcity
• 3.4 Aquaculture
• 3.5 Invasive alien species
• 4 Cross-cutting issues for European key water management challenges
• 4.2 Coherence of EU policy targets and management responses
• 4.3 Coherence of sectoral strategies with water policy objectives
• 4.4 Funding of measures
• 4.5 Measures with multiple benefits