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Although the structured way of reporting these impacts in categories is relatively rough it contains information on human health (fatalities) and economic impacts as well as impacts on the environment and cultural heritage that can be used in European overviews. Making this information available to the public is essential in raising awareness of flood risks ([1]).

After the delineation of Areas of Potential Significant Flood Risk (APSFR) (EU 2007, Art. 5), EU Member States had to develop on Flood Hazard and Risk Maps (FHRMs), which were due for the end of 2013. While the in-depth review is ongoing in 2015, a partial overview (including the FHRMs of 32 units of management (UoMs)) shows that international coordination is lagging behind. From a subset of 18 UoMs, all being part of an international River Basin District (RBD), 11 of them presented flood hazard and flood risk maps for the area that is shared. In addition, only in five of them it is clear that co-ordination in the development of the maps has been achieved (WRc 2015).

The Member States’ reporting of the FHRMs suggests almost 4500 industrial installation are potentially affected by pluvial floods. In roughly half of the EU Member States fluvial flooding with a probability of 1% per year can be overlaid with protected areas (Kavvadas, 2015) as defined in the directives on drinking water (EU 1998), birds (EU 2010) and habitats (EU 1992), urban wastewater treatment (EU 1991), and the WFD (EU 2000).