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Policy/environmental relevance

Several EU directives aim at improving water quality and reducing the loads and impacts of organic matter. Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires the achievement of good ecological status or good ecological potential of surface waters across the EU by 2015 and repeals step by step several older water-related directives. The following directives are complementary to the WFD: the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), aimed at reducing pollution from sewage treatment works and certain industries; the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC), aimed at reducing nitrate and organic matter pollution from agricultural land; and the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU), aimed at reducing emissions from industry to air, water and land.