1. WG 2.B Integrated River Basin Management
Progress Report
Strategic and Coordination Group Meeting
Brussels 15th March 2004

2. WG 2B Main activities Economics (2 Drafting Groups)
Pilot River Basins Exercise
Preparation of River Basin Management plans and Program of Measures

3. Economic Activities Integration of economics in horizontal issues
Production of fact sheets providing practical advice for Article 5 requirements about thye economic analysis.
Addressing Methodological Economic Issues
Focussed in defining environmental and resource costs and associated methods of evaluation.

4. Pilot River Basin Exercise
Work focussed in the reporting commitments included in Article 5
A huge work has been done by some PRBs
Pilot River Basin Outcome report is presented at this SCG
Discussion about the so called Phase 2 ( follow up of the activities of the group in 2005/2006)

5. River Basin management Plans and/or Programmes of measures under the WFD Common Implementation Strategy
Water Directors in Rome invited the IRBM WG 2B to present a mandate for the activity on the basis of the outcome of the discussions of SCG meeting of 2728 October.
A new “Activity sheet” has been produced and circulated in the group. After comments it is presented to this SCG for discussion

6. Meetings (Since last SCG, 2728 October)

7. FURTHER STEPS
Tentatively, next plenary meetings of WG 2B are Madrid, April 2004 and Brussels, beginning of October 2004.
Eco and PRB follow up
After conclusions of this SCG, PoMs tentatively will start its activities

8. Preparation of Program of measures
Why this activity was originally included in the work programme of WG 2B ?
Because PoM is a key element of the WFD that involves complex issues for which there is a need of clarification.

9. Preparation of Program of measures
PoM is a key element of the WFD...
Implementation of PoM is the most important mechanism for achieving the environmental objectives.
Integrated River Basin Management needs a sound planning process and, thus a sound program of measures.

10. Preparation of Program of measures
...that involves complex issues...
Article 9 (Measures deemed appropriate for the recovery of the costs of water services)
Article 10 (Combined approach)
Article 11 (Measures to promote an efficient and sustainable water use, measures to safeguerding sources of drinking water, controls on abstraction, etc)
Key word: Integration

11. Preparation of Program of measures
...for which there is a need of clarification.
To define potential measures
To analise the cost effectiveness of potential measures
To set up a cost effective programme of measures

12. Preparation of Program of measures
Program of measures has to be:
Overview available for public participation by end 2007
Drafted for public participation by end 2008
Established by end 2009
Operated by end 2012
Reviewed and updated by end 2015 (and then every 6 years thereafter)
But...phase 2 PRBs (2005/2006)

13. Preparation of Program of measures
Activity in 2004:
Modest (low level) objectives
Exchange of information
Identify links between Article 5 Analysis and PoMs
Modest (very specific) task:
Production of fact/information sheets

14. Preparation of Program of measures
Factsheets examples:
Going from initial analysis findings to building a program of measures (links Article 5, Article 11. Time schedule according WFD: )
How to evaluate cost effectiveness of measures? (Articles 5,9,11. Time schedule according WFD: )
Selection of some interesting results from Research Projects that may have an important input to integrated river basin management.

15. Preparation of Program of measures
To produce the fact sheets:
Workshop “Examples of cost effective measures for WFD planning process”. (Madrid, April)
Discussion of possible issues for the fact sheets in WG 2B plenary meeting (Madrid, April).
Meeting of Drafting Group on PoM (Brussels or Rome, 3 May) to define issuess and table of contents.
Presentation of ToC at SCG (Brussels, 27/28 May)
Meeting of Drafting Group (Brussels, 27 September)
Presentation of fact sheets to WG 2B Plenary (Beginning of October)
Presentation to SCG (Brussels 27/28 October)
Presentation to WD meeting (Amsterdam, 2/3 December)

16. Preparation of Program of measures
Depending on the experience in 2004, decision (to be adopted in WD meeting in the Netherlands) on the follow up of the activity (and follow up of the WG 2B)

17. Preparation of Program of measures
Workshop “Examples of cost effective measures for the WFD planning process”
Draft Programme

18. Wednesday 21 April 2004 14:00-14:30 Workshop presentation
14:00-14:30 Workshop presentation
14:00-14:10 Welcome
14:10-14:20 Presentation (Commission)
14:20-14:30 Workshop aims and general scope (WG 2B Leaders)
14:30 Session 1 “Stepwise approach from current assessment to program of measures”
Chair: Marta Moren
14:30-14:45 Role of programme of measures in the overall planning approach in the WFD (WG 2B)
14:45-15:00 Article 5 risk analysis (Commission)
15:00-15:15 The setting up of environmental objectives (?)
15:15-15:30 Identification of gaps (?)
15:30-16:00 Discussion
16:00 Coffee
16:30 Session 2 “The concept of cost-effective measures”
Chair: Thierry Davy
16:30-16:45 To decide by DG ECO (Example: the concept of cost-effectiveness)
16:45-17:00 To decide by DG ECO (Example: tools to asses cost-effectiveness)
17:00-17:15 To decide by DG ECO
17:15-17:30 To decide by DG ECO
17:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00 End of Session 2

19. Thursday 22 April 2004
09:30 Session 3 “Examples of cost effective measures for the WFD planning process (I) “Tools and methodologies”
Chair: A. Tilche
09:30-10:15 Research activities: HARMONIRIB, HARMONIC-A (Marc de Rooy),BMW (Seppo Rekolainen), ERANET (IoW)
10:15-10:30 Cost effective set of measures (ECOLOGIC)
10:30-11:00 Discussion
11:00 Coffee
11:30 Session 3 “Examples of cost effective measures for the WFD planning process (II) ”Case Studies (Session open for contributions) ”
Chairs: J. M. Piñero, B. Kaczmareck
11:30-11:40 MS 1
11:40-11:50 MS 2
11:50-12:00 NGO 1
12:00-12:
12:10-12:
12:20-12:30 etc
12:30-13:00 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 3 “Examples of cost effective measures for the WFD planning process (III) ”Case Studies (Point of view of Pilot River Basins) ”
Chair: G. Bidoglio
14:00-15:30 New short presentations and/or round table with participants
15:30-16:00 Debate and conclusions.