2. State of legal transposition (1)
EU Member States
6,3**
5,7**** 1*
1***
1*****
Notified
End 2003
March 2004
June 2004
Sept. 2004
Dec. 2004
* AT,
** BE (Flanders), DK, ES, GR, IE, NL, UK
*** PT
**** BE (Brussels and Wallonia), DE, FIN, FR, LU, SE
***** IT (main WFD requirements already included in national law)

3. State of legal transposition (2)
Acceding States
5***
3** 1*
Notified
End 2003
March 2004
June 2004
Sept. 2004
* SI
** CY, LV, MT
*** CZ, HU, LT, PL, SK
Missing: EE

4. State of legal transposition (3)
Candidate countries, EEA States,
and Switzerland
Countries
Transposition BG RO ?
End 2003 NO
June 2004 CH
No transposition

5. River Basin Districts (EU Member States)
Countries
RBDs
(total)
RBDs
(intern.)
Int. RBDs
(%) AT BE DE DK ES FI FR GR IE IT LU NL PT SE UK 3 4 10 13 14 8 12 7 20 2 5 16 3 4 6 1 5
(5) 2
100 57 60 7 29 63 25 30 43 ? 50 40 19
TOTAL
139 *
53*
* This number includes repetitions (i.e. same IRBD declared by two or more countries)

6. River Basin Districts (Acceding, candidate and EEA States)
Countries
RBDs
(total)
RBDs
(intern.)
Int. RBDs
(%) CZ CY EE HU LT LV MT PL SI SK 3 1 4 2 3 1 4 2
100
TOTAL
21 *
19*
* This number includes repetitions (i.e. same IRBD declared by two pr more countries) BG RO ? 1 ? 1 ?
100 NO 14 2 14

7. Expected River Basin Districts
Estimated, unofficial number of nat. and int. RBD avoiding double counting (Status: Nov. 2003):
EU15 (total): 111
(intern.): 25 (23%)
EU25 (total): 122
(intern.): 34 (28%)

8. Start of formal transposition and implementation checking in 2004
Key issues
Start of formal transposition and implementation checking in 2004
Devlopment of a (public) information policy
Delays in legal transposition in some EU15 MS
Lack of formal EEA agreement of transposing WFD in NO, IS, LIE