DG Research activities in support to Water Policies Andrea Tilche European Commission Head of the Unit “Water Cycle and Soil-related aspects” andrea.tilche@cec.eu.int Informal Water Directors Meeting – Rome, 24-25 November 2003

Water Key Action funding distribution in FP5

Project clusters CREDO CATCHMOD WFD CHEMICAL ELOISE ACTIF FLOOD ARID Integrated management Quality Monitoring CREDO Endocrine disruptors CATCHMOD Catchment modelling WFD Quality Assessment CHEMICAL quality ELOISE Land/coast ACTIF FLOOD ARID Water scarcity PHARMA Drug residues SENSPOL Monit. Cont. sites CityNet Urban Water Mgmt Technologies EUGRIS Sednet Sediments and dredging Soil CLUED’EAU Drinking water PaTanTex IPPC

Project clusters/EU Water policies Water Framework Directive (plus Municipal WW and Nitrate directives) CATCHMOD: Integrated catchment modelling WFD-EQA: Ecological Quality Assessment and Ref. conditions ARID: Management of scarce water resources CITY-NET: Integrated Urban Water Management Daughter Directive on Chemical Quality CREDO: endocrine disrupters PHARMA: residues of drugs and PCPs Chemical Quality: cocktails of pollutants, heavy metals, POPs, etc. Drinking Water Directive CLUED’EAU: EU drinking water research IPPC Directive PaTanTex: Paper mills, tanneries and textile industries

Project clusters/EU Water policies 2 Soil Thematic Strategy SENSPOL: Sensors for monitoring water pollution from contaminated sites EUGRIS – IMAGE-TRAIN – SOWA – JOINT: management, risk assessment and remediation of contaminated sites SEDNET: management and technologies for sediments and dredging materials Community Actions in relation to Flood Events ACTIF: flood forecasting and control

Projects abstracts &results on CIRCA http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/rtd/eesdwatkeact/library?l=/projects_information&vm=detailed&sb=Title

Projects abstracts &results on CIRCA http://forum.europa.eu.int/Public/irc/rtd/eesdwatkeact/library?l=/projects_information&vm=detailed&sb=Title

Navigate AQEM PROJECT WEBSITE The Development and Testing of an Integrated Assessment System  for the Ecological Quality of Streams and Rivers throughout Europe  using Benthic Macroinvertebrates.  Acronym: AQEM  (Contract No. EVK1-CT-1999-00027) Duration: March 2000 to February 2002 AQEM has been a research project under the 5th Framework Programme of the European Union. The AQEM consortium has developed an assessment system for the Ecological Quality of European streams based on benthic invertebrates. [ENTER]

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6th Framework Programme 2002-2006 Priority Area 6.3 “Global Change and Ecosystems” Sub-area “Water Cycle and Soil-related aspects” New very large funding instruments (Integrated Projects and Networks of Excellence) First call (April 2003): Ecological impact of global change on freshwater ecosystems, River-soil-groundwater interactions, Integrated flood-risk methodologies, Twinning river basins from EU/Africa/NIS (EUWI) Second call (October 2003): IWRM, Water stress management, Long-term water scenarios for Europe, Water and Soil technologies Third call (Fall 2004): Flood and Drought research, Integrated Urban Water Management, Risk-based land management

6th Framework Programme 2002-2006 Priority 8: “Specific Support to Policy” Fast response to direct policy needs Work Programme established in close collaboration with the interested policy DGs Area 1.5: “Environmental assessment (soil, water, air, noise, effect of chemicals First call (March 2003): WFD (Ecological/chemical status – Sampling, screening and testing methods); Sludge Directive (Horizontal standards for selected organic compounds) Second call (January 2004): Bathing Water Dir. (Detection techniques for viruses); Groundwater Dir. (Thresholds of groundwater pollutants); Sludg Dir. (Horizontal standards for hygienic parameters)

Conclusions EC-funded research A huge patrimony of knowledge and expertise to be properly exploited for policy and regulation purposes A very large source of information, through publications, web sites, newsletters, conferences and workshops Need to facilitate the access to information and the multi-later communication with stakeholders, policy makers and regulators Constitution of a limited number of project Clusters Direct participation in the policy development mechanism (i.e. Soil Strategy) FP6 New opportunities through Integrated Projects and the Specific Support to Policy Coordination between DG ENV, DG RTD and the JRC