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The development of a Flood Risk Management Plan (FRMP). FRMPs are to be adopted and available in December 2015 and will be reported to the European Commission by March 2016. However, as FRMPs should be developed with the active involvement of interested parties (EU 2007, Art. 10) draft FRMPs were available when this report was produced in 2015.

While keeping in mind only the draft FRMPs were available, a screening of them reveals that over 90% of the plans included objectives for flood risk management and objectives to reduce flood risks (WRc 2015). However, these objectives are only specific and measurable in 25% of the plans. Only in a very small minority of the plans, objectives for the use of preventive and protective measures were listed while, in contrast, almost 80% of the plans included objectives on preparedness measures. Still lacking in many cases is the underpinning of how the individual measures contribute to the overall objectives set to reduce flood risk and towards more general water policy (environmental) objectives (WRc 2015). Nevertheless, the proposed measures themselves are rather evenly distributed over the four types ([2]). As the FD has a framework approach, its success is dependent on the ambition of the Member States for its implementation and measuring the progress (EC 2015b). The development of a European database on flood impacts (see chapter 2) and initiatives like disaster loss data recording guidelines (De Groeve, et al., 2013, 2014) are important for the measurement of success.

[2] Measures are divided in four categories: Prevention, Protection, Preparation and Recovery/Review (EC 2013a)