Identification on Significant Pressures - Surface Water Bodies Oldřich Novický; Tomáš Navrátil; James Hunt – Twinning Project Ministry of the Environment

Twinning Project – Implementation of the Water Framework Directive Project Management - the Czech Republic institutions: Ministry of Environment + Ministry of Agriculture + supporting organisations The Member States: United Kingdom France Austria Experts from Germany have been invited to participate mainly in the preparation of a pilot river basin management plan (the Orlice River Basin). Twinning

Twinning Project – Implementation of the Water Framework Directive Components Review of Implementation Plan Secondary Legislation and Transposition analysis sub River Basin Management Plan - Orlice Guidance on Enforcement Guidance on Environmental Monitoring Systems Arrangements for Stakeholder Consultation Started May 2002 – Completion: January 2004 Twinning

The process of collecting information on pressures: Directive introduces the concept of significant pressures (important within the basin or the water body). Directive requires to collect and maintain records on all significant pressures (Member State can collect records on all pressures and subsequently only identify some of them as significant). The requirement can be implemented in two stages:           1) Catalogue of all pressures (and driving forces)         2) Screening to identify significant pressures Reasons: - there is a very wide range of pressures (variable type and magnitude) - it is not sensible or realistic to consider all pressures within the scope of analysis Method for selection of the important pressures and driving forces is required. Collecting of informations – two stages

all data will be concentrated on Povodí companies Situation in CR: wide range of information + many producers, not all necessary data are available yet all data will be concentrated on Povodí companies part of data is required to collect by current legislation ( Water Act Water Authorities permits for water uses) Data providers: Water Research Institute T.G.M. – pollutions, vulnerable areas, landfills, abstractions, loss of water, water use, hydrogeological characteristics, discharges, Povodí companies + water authorities – pollutions, fish farming, abstractions, morphological changes, erosion, water recreational use, water managment, discharges Czech Hydrometeorological Institute – industrial pollution, other diffuse point source pollution, water flow, abstractions, vulnerability of groundwater water bodies, hydrogeological characteristics, stratification, Situation in CR Data providers

Private water companies – loss of water, sludge treatment Czech Statistical Institute - agriculture pollution, agriculture abstraction Czech Ecological Institute – other point source of pollution, toxic pollution, geology + soil types, landfills Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health – pollutions, fish farming, water quality, land use, water recreational use Private water companies – loss of water, sludge treatment Governmental Order – pollution Problems: incomplete data (some sources of pollution, water use, …) providers not identified yet (estimates of diffuse sources pollution) Data providers Data problems

Screening for Significance - determination which pressures from the Pressures Catalogue should be considered to be significant Significant Pressures individual process for each water body Impact Analysis identification of WB which are at risk of failing the objectives identification of pressures responsible for this failure subject of the Programmes of Measures Screening for Significance

Pressure Absolute Criteria Relative Criteria Significance – judged on: “absolute” criteria – does not take account of the receiving waters “relative” criteria – take account of the vulnerability or susceptibility of the receiving waters mixture of absolute and relative criteria Pressure Absolute Criteria Relative Criteria Point source pollution Emission Limit Standards EQSs (Imission standards) Diffuse source pollution Best Practice Abstraction Volume abstracted Proportion of „natural flow“ or „minimum flow“ or „ecological flow“ Water Regulation Size of structures Size in relation to size of „natural flow“ or „minimum flow“or „ecological flow“ Morphology Size of alteration Comparison with „natural morphology“ Absolute and relative criteria

Recapitulation of the Directive objectives: The issue of significance must be considered in relation to all objectives of the Directive.   Recapitulation of the Directive objectives: Prevent deterioration of the status of all bodies of surface water; Protect, enhance and restore all bodies of surface water with the aim of achieving good surface water status at the latest by 2015 Protect and enhance all artificial and heavily modified bodies of water, achieve good ecological potential and good surface water chemical status at the latest by 2015 To progressively reduce pollution from priority substances and ceasing or phasing out emissions, discharges and losses of priority hazardous substances Directive objectives

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