1. Commission's activities
WG Groundwater
8-9 October 2018, Vienna, Austria
Elisa Vargas Amelin
Policy Officer
DG Environment

2. CIS work programme
Just as a reminder: CIS work programme for with agreed activities and tasks for WG Groundwater. The following slides summarise COM's activities that are of interest to the group. Most slides have links to the corresponding policy or folders in circabc where additional information can be found (minutes, presentations and technical documents). As you know today we will start the discussion on our new mandate
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3. Water Directors meeting 11-12 June 2018
SCG meeting 17 May 2018
Water Directors meeting June 2018
Water status and WFD objectives, EEA’s works, 2nd RBMPs assessment.
CIS Work Programme: continuation of current work programme (including WGGW), less emphasis on new guidance documents and more on exchange of practical experience. More attention is required for agriculture and water, the economic dimension of water policy, climate change and droughts, emerging topics…
A mini-package of CE actions will be produced late in 2017 which will inter alia include the Plastics Strategy and actions on water reuse
EU Water Conference 2018, 20-21, Sept.
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4. Water Framework Directive Floods Directive
Pharmaceuticals in the environment
Fitness Check
Plastics Strategy (microplastics)
Environmental Quality Standards Directive
Groundwater Directive
Water re-use COM proposal
Water Framework Directive
Floods Directive
Birds Directve
Evaluation
Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
Bathing Water Directive
Habitats Directive
Nitrates Directive
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Drinking Water Directive
Plant Protection Products Directive
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
Industrial Emmissions Directive
Sewage Sludge Directive
Seveso Directive

5. Evaluation of EU water policy
Drinking Water Directive (2016)
Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (ongoing)
Fitness Check (ongoing)
Water Framework Directive
Environmental Quality Standards Directive
Groundwater Directive
Floods Directive
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6. Existing information EU water legislation: WFD (2000)
Groundwater (2006)
EQSD (2008)
Floods Directive (2007)
Information via reporting by Member States:
WFD (RBMPs) and Floods Directive (FRMPs) – WISE reporting
Common Implementation Strategy – guidance documents and other deliverables, input from working groups and workshops on all aspects of implementation
Many infringement cases in the past and ongoing
Information through Court of Auditor reports
- Performance audit on the Floods Directive
- EU-funding of Urban Waste Water Treatment plants in the Danube river basin
- Combating eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
- Water quality in the Danube river basin

7. WFD and FD - timetable for implementation reports and Fitness Check
Reporting
measures
Reporting
measures
Reporting
measures
2009
2015
2021
2027
RBMP / FRMPs …
RBMP1
RBMP2/FRMP1
RBMP3/FRMP2
RBMP4/FRMP3
COM implementation reports
Blueprint 2012
first RBMP
4Q-2018
2nd RBMP/1st FRMP
2019 Fitness Check
Fitness Check
Nov 2017 – Q2/Q3 2019
4Q 2019
New COM takes office

8. Fitness Check EU WFD/FD
Roadmaps published
Public consultation open!! Share your views! Until 4/3/2019
Reporting of the River Basin Management Plans
EEA State of Water report
Outcomes of the Common Implementation Strategy (both for WFD, GW, EQSD and FD)
Results of the 2012 Fitness Check of EU Water policy
UWWTD evaluation
Non-REACH chemicals evaluation
Study on Integrated Assessment
Study on Blue2
LIFE projects
Public consultation under the Fitness Check
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9. Assessment of RBMPs and FRMPs
3 dimensions: RBMPs, FRMPs and transboundary RBDs
Format: EU overview and Member State annexes
Process: analysis of key topics, previous recommendations; focus on progress and shortcomings
EEA – State of Water Report 2018
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10. What is the Commission looking at?
Comprehensive picture presented in previous implementation reports
Focus of current assessment of RBMPs: progress since first cycle and follow-up to Commission recommendations
Basis for analysis: information reported by Member States; a number of other sources serve as complementary information
Main areas: governance; monitoring, assessment and classification of status; designation of Highly Modified Water Bodies; groundwater, environmental objectives and exemptions; diffuse pollution; economic analysis; droughts etc.

11. Preliminary findings on GW from the RBMPs assessment
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12. Upcoming CIS meetings WG DIS, 8-9 October, Brussels
WG Chemicals, 16 October, Brussels
Floods WG + Workshop, October, Brussels
ATG on Water Reuse, October, Milan, IT
WG Ecostat, October, Malmö, SE
SCG, 8 November, Brussels
Water & Marine Directors meeting, November, Vienna, Austria
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