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The general overview of pollution pressures reported for different RBDs (figure 5.4) is largely consistent with the results reported for ecological status or potential (figure 5.2). However, in some RBDs the ecological status or potential in rivers and lakes is worse than anticipated from the pollution pressures, such as in most of the RBDs in Sweden, the Baltic countries, Scotland, Poland, Austria and Hungary, as well as Brittany in France. The reason for this inconsistency is probably the impact of hydromorphological pressures (figure 5.5).

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Mr. Ernst Überreiter (invited by kristpet (disabled)) 27 Mar 2012 15:30:24

However, in some RBDs the ecological status or potential in rivers and lakes is worse than anticipated from the pollution pressures, such as in most of the RBDs in Sweden, the Baltic countries, Scotland, Poland, Austria and Hungary, as well as Brittany in France. The reason for this inconsistency is probably the impact of hydromorphological pressures (figure 5.5).

In our opinion these are no inconsistencies. Therefore the term inconsistencies shall be deleted in this context.

We see a conceptual problem in not differentiating between ecological staus and potential, which exactly leads to such missinterpretations.

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