1. Update on legal issues Strategic Coordination Group
Update as of
Maria Brättemark
WFD Team, DG ENV.D.1, European Commission

2. Transposition of new acts
Groundwater Directive (2006/118/EC) Deadline :
Notifications : Absent (CZ, DE, LU) Partial (BE, EE)
Of these, reasoned opinions sent to : BE, CZ, DE(M4), EE, LU.
Application to the Court : CZ, EE
Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) Deadline !
Notifications received from Complete (DK, DE, IE, IT, LT, LV, MT, NL, RO, SI, SK, SE) Partial (BE, CZ, LU, UK)
20 letters formal notice sent on to and still absent or partial : AT, BE, BG, EE, FI, EL, ES, FR, CY, HU, PL, PT.
Reasoned opinions : ES, HU, MT, CY, EL (M4)
EQS Directive (2008/105/EC) Deadline
Notifications received from : Full ( NL, IE ) Partial (LV, UK)
Directive on chemical analysis (2009/90/EC) Deadline

3. Non-conformity Directive 2000/60/EC Non-conformity cases :
Letters of Formal Notice sent, and case still open (BE, BG, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IE, IT, NL, PL, RO, SK, SE, UK)
Cases closed : SI, LV, HU, LT
Additional Letter of Formal Notice : DK, EE, SE
Reasoned Opinion : CZ, FR, RO, ES
Follow up under consideration : BE, DE, FI, IE, NL, PL, SK, UK
Late transposition under review : LU
Water services still an issue of concern… some cases frozen apart from Water Services.
Directive 2007/60/EC and 2006/118/EC :
Conformity assessments have started. 3

4. River Basin Management Plans State of play - 4 May 2010
Reminder of deadlines :
: start of consultations draft RBMP
: publication of RBMP
: Reporting to the Commission
Published : AT, BG, CZ, DE, EE, FI, FR, IT, LU, LV, NL, SE, SK, UK
Adopted and not yet published : IE, HU, PL, RO + NO
Consultation status :
Member States consultations still ongoing : DK, SI, LT.
Partial consultation : BE (1 out of 4), ES (22 out of 24) not started !
Not yet started ! EL, PT ,
CY (May-Nov 2010) MT(May-Nov 2010), 4

5. State of play RBMP adoption and WISE reportingMS
RBMP adopted
WISE reporting
RBMP reported
XML
GIS AT J L ES MT BE K FI NL BG FR PL CY HU PT CZ IE RO DE IT SE DK LT SI EE LU SK EL LV UK
NOTES: Status: 04/05/2010
The column “RBMP adopted” reflects the contents of DG Environment’s web page:
GREEN - River Basin Management Plans adopted!
YELLOW - consultations finalised, but awaiting adoption.
RED - consultation have not started or ongoing.
The WISE reporting columns reflect if largely complete (green), partial (yellow) or no reporting (red) has been done on the three parts expected:
- Copies of the RBMP and PoM
XML files
GIS files
If the plan has not been yet been finalised and adopted it is assumed that the information submitted in WISE reflects draft plans.