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The current draft report on ecological and chemical status, pressures and impacts aims at providing an overview of the results on status and pressures from the River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs).

• Chapters 1 present general information on the WFD and the geographical settings including an overview of European river basin and sea regions.
• Chapter 2 present the current status of reported information and data by Member States in relation to RBMPs and a summary on information on River Basin Districts (RBDs) and water bodies (WBs).
• Chapter 3 provides an overview of the methodology used for data handling and describes different assumptions made.
• Chapters 4 to7 present results, information and assessment on status, pressures and impacts of European waters. The results are a compilation of results based on the data reported by Member States with their RBMPs and stored in the WISE-WFD database. All chapters present results for the four water categories: rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters. Chapter 6 on chemical status also presents information on groundwater bodies.

• Chapter 4 provide an overview of the ecological status, significant pressures and impacts the four surface water categories by Member States). The chapter aims at comparing the ecological status in Member States and relate the observed ecological status to percentage of water bodies affected by significant pressures and impacts.
• Chapter 5 presents overall European results on ecological status, pressures and impact and the status of River Basin Districts (RBDs) are presented in form of European maps. The chapter compares the status and pressures for different surface water categories. This chapter will be further developed when there are a better data set on common typologies is available (expected in the spring 2012).
• Chapter 6 provide an overview of the chemical status of surface and groundwater bodies in Europe.
• Chapter 7 presents information on ecological status and water quality. The chapter first present trend in pollution and water quality over the last 20 years and describe the status of implementing the Urban Waste Water Treatment and Nitrate Directive. Results on linking the on status, pressures and impacts to water quality (data reported to EEA by countries via WISE-SOE);

It is the intention to add some chapters on environmental objectives (status in 2015) and on measures. These chapters will be developed on basis of the analysis done by EU Commission DG ENV.