River Basin Management Plan

Keywords Ecosystem services, European river basins, Risk assessment, Risk management, River basin management plans, Water framework directive... 

European eco-labeling of paper products, and in the existing European eco-labeling for cleaners under Regulation 1980/2000/EC. In addition, the EU Commission made further recommendations on risk reduction measures for EDTA. First, it asked EU Member States to establish Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) for EDTA, and the national pollution reduction measures to achieve those EQS in 2015 should be included in the river basin management plans in line with the provisions of Directive 2000/60/EC. Second, EU Member States should specify in IPPC permits measures on EDTA to operate to BAT by October 2007, taking into account local circumstances. Further, as BAT is developed, this should be incorporated into the permits. 

Spain is divided into 15 river basin districts. Each river basin district has a river basin management plan which will have to be adapted to the Water Framework Directive. There are 3116 water bodies in rivers in Spain. The Ministry of Environment has taken into account three criteria for the identification of the water bodies in rivers, two hydrological criteria (average flow is greater than 100 L/s, and more than 75 % of the months have a flow not equal to zero) and a geographical criterion (the catchment area is greater than lOkrn ). 

Related to the sampling frequency, the Water Framework Directive requires that surveillance monitoring shall be carried out at each monitoring site during one year in the period covered by the river basin management plan. 

However, the Ministry of Environment of Spain proposes a higher frequency than required by the Water Framework Directive for the first river basin management plan in order to satisfy information needs. In this way, surveillance monitoring shall be... 

Design - setup of programmes of measures and river basin management plans (until... 

Figure 4.2.2 Framework for model-supported participatory planning of measures and integrated river basin management (planning framework, Hattermann and Kundzewicz, 2007 Wenzel, 2005) (see Plate 4)...

Forstner, U. (2008) Differences in policy response to similar scientific findings - examples from sediment contamination issues in River Basin Management Plans. New perspectives with sediment issues (monitoring and measures) under the European Water Framework Directive. J. Soils and Sediments, 8, pp. 214-216. 

As described in Chapter 1.1 of this book, monitoring data produced in 2007-2008 under the Water Framework Directive (Enropean Commission, 2000) will form the basis for the design of programmes of measures to be included in the first river basin management plan (due to be published in 2009), and thereafter used for evaluating... 

The previous sections have highlighted the need to integrate scientific and technical progress within the implementation of the WED. However, if the WFD provides some indications of where and when, in the implementation process, it is necessary to integrate new scientific and technical knowledge (economic analysis, standards for monitoring of quality elements, review and update of river basin management plans, identification of priority hazardous substances, etc.), it makes no recommendations on how to do this. 

Modelling of the planned measures to implement the River Basin Management Plan (Art.11-7)... 

The WFD further requires a management plan per river basin in which the program of measures is processed. In the meantime the Directive 76/464/EC is lifted as per December 22, 2013. As a consequence the policies regarding hazardous substances are integrated in the program of measures of the river basin management plan. 

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