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2.3 Policy/environmental relevance

The Water Framework Directive emphasises the importance of sustainable water use based on long-term protection of water resources and the need for sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater (Directive 2000/60/EC; Article 1). The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 aims at preserving and protecting the natural capital in the EU, including groundwater associated surface waters and dependent terrestrial ecosystems (EC, 2019). The EU groundwater policy requires that groundwater bodies achieve and maintain good chemical and quantitative status (Directive 2006/118/EC). The reporting from the second River Basin Management Plans showed that 27% of the groundwater bodies in EU27 failed to achieve either good quantitative or chemical status, with 4% failing to achieve both good quantitative and chemical status (Psomas et al, 2021).

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  • scheidand (Andreas Scheidleder) 22 Oct 2021 13:55:32

    Comment from AT

    2nd sentence: also the WFD requires the non deterioration of GW associated aquatic and dependent terrestrial ecosystems.
    3rd sentence: The achievement of good GW chemical and quantitative status is required by the WFD Article 4 and not by the GWD.
    Last sentence: What is the reason for not referring to the 5th Implementation report?

  • zalllnih (Nihat Zal) 26 Nov 2021 15:45:27

    Thank you for your comment. The paragraphs was improved based on these suggestions to ”The Water Framework Directive emphasises the importance of sustainable water use based on long-term protection of water resources and the need for sufficient supply of good quality surface water and groundwater (Directive 2000/60/EC; Article 1). This directive requires that groundwater bodies achieve and maintain good chemical and quantitative status (Directive 2000/60/EC; Article 4). The EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 aims at preserving and protecting the natural capital in the EU, including groundwater associated surface waters and dependent terrestrial ecosystems (COM, 2019).”

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