1. Towards a Work Programme for the Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC)
Water Directors Meeting
28 November 2012, Limassol
Marta Moren Abat, DG Environment

2. Blueprint objectives
Integration
Efficient water use
Ensure sufficient availability of good quality water for sustainable and equitable water use
Economic Instruments
Resilience to
Extreme Events
Governance
Good
Ecological Status
Knowledge Base

3. CIS principles Improved policy making "Knowledge-Policy Interaction"
Improve comparability / transparency
Fully integrate quantity and quality
Ensure sectoral policy integration
Improved knowledge base:
Water cycle & use
Ecological status
Measures and policy instruments
Costs and benefits
Hydro-economic modelling / target setting
"Knowledge-Policy Interaction"
Testing measures and policy instruments
River basin networks

4. Proposed structure chart
Water Directors
Steering of implementation process
Chair: Presidency, Co-chair: Commission
Strategic Coordination of Implementation Group
Co-ordination of work programme
Chair: Commission
Incl: Economic analysis, European Semester, Science & Policy Interface, Planning process
Art. 21 Committee
Working AREA
“Ecological, chemical and quantitative
Status”
Network of Experts
Working AREA
“Knowledge, Integration & Dissemination”
Network of Experts
Working AREA
Pressures and Measure Water management”
Network of Experts
River basin networks
Testing tools, measures and policy instruments

5. Blueprint follow-up: Knowledge Base
Water Directors Meeting
28 November 2012, Limassol
Jacques Delsalle, DG Environment

6. The need for hydro-economic modelling
We need EU-wide integrated assessment tools to support EU policy processes
Cohesion Policy, CAP, Energy, Climate Change have their own IA tools but water resources issues often under-represented.
Build on internal capacities JRC, ENV, ESTAT & EEA and current reporting processes
EU wide overview and differences between territories
Capacity building for the development of similar tools at Member State / River Basin levels
Exchange of best practices
Filling data gaps in monitoring, research, etc.
Bluerint proposed CIS guidance

7. Knowledge base key issues for CIS
Enabling the right decisions to be taken at all levels:
Water resource management tools including the basic needs for nature & society
2 key tools at EU level provided in the context of the Blueprint
Economic Analysis of costs and benefits of measures affecting water resources
Better dissemination and sharing of knowledge between different levels, supporting water management choices.
The Blueprint and related assessments show that there are still important knowledge gaps and failures in the dissemination and proper integration
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8. JRC Hydro-Economic Model (1/2)
The 1st phase of this process, at EU level
Innovative integration of water resource management (quantity, quality), land use and economic models
Multi-criteria tool to optimize combinations of water efficiency measures at EU level
Improvements are planned:
Common database for base-year with water balance work
Improvement economic module
Costing other benefits, e.g. ecosystem services
E-flows and cost and effectiveness of measures to be region-specific
Inclusion trends/scenarios outside the water sector

9. JRC Hydro-Economic Model (2/2)
Main conclusions of ad-hoc expert group
The model is on the forefront of the state of the art
Uncertainties of outcomes still very high.
Useful for ex-ante evaluations at EU level
In the context of WFD implementation, need for a bidirectional learning process with Member States

10. EU water balances project (1/2)
Contract for DG ENV with technical support from EEA in the context of the Blueprint
Based on UN SEEA-W methodology
Shift from Year /country to Month /sub-basin…
Use of already reported water data and additional specific data collection
Calculation based on an average 8 years input data

11. EU water balances project (2/2)
There was no fundamental disagreement to the generic approach followed by DG ENV and the EEA
Results of this prototype not published, but…
… urgent need for WEI+ maps (Ressource Efficiency Roadmap)
Need for further bilateral coordination with MS and sectors
E.g. delineation of sub-catchments, better understanding water use, access to river flow data
More Member States to be represented in consultation process
To be fully integrated in the CIS work: Link with indicators, e-flows, economic analysis, target setting

12. Economic Analysis (1/2) Modelling: Assessment of RBMPs: Beyond WFD:
Scarcity and heterogeneity of available data on costs and benefits of WFD implementation
Need for increased transparency on implementation WFD: pricing, exemptions, etc.
Modelling:
Limited information on elasticity, effectiveness
Beyond WFD:
Support wider assessment of water policy and integration with sectoral policy
Support discussions on economic recovery, European Semester, Green Growth, etc.

13. Economic Analysis (2/2)
Study supporting European Semester process, workshop in February
Further development JRC modelling
On-going work on water-related Ecosystem Services mapping and valuation
2012: update economic analysis under Art 5
Assessment reporting PoM
Clear focus on providing SUPPORT for the elaboration of the RBMPs

14. Knowledge Dissemination & Integration
Lessons learned from the assessment of 2009 RBMPs
What is lacking, in the assessments and in the plans, and why?
Agree in advance on the structure of the document and reporting schemes?
Implication for rationalisation reporting & statistic processes.
Identify real gaps (monitoring, research)
Implications for WISE further development