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The Water Framework Directive (WFD) allows Member States (MS) to designate some of their surface waters as heavily modified water bodies (HMWB) or artificial water bodies (AWB), for heavily modified and artificial water bodies the ecological potential should be determined. Member States will need to meet the good ecological potential (GEP) criterion for ecosystems of HMWBs and AWBs rather than good ecological status as for natural type water bodies.  The objective of GEP is similar to good status but takes into account the constraints imposed by social and/or economic uses.