1. Agenda item 2.1 – Overall Progress Report
Water Directors’ Meeting
Mondorf-les-Bains, 20 June 2005
Agenda item 2.1 –
Overall Progress Report
WFD Common Implementation Strategy

2. Progress reports Dec 2004 – June 2005
New work programme operational – all activities according to timetable
Detailed information on progress of all WGs and activities – summary of SCG progress reports
Information from the Commission - Research (e.g. FP7)
- LIFE programme - CIRCA - Newsletter
Emerging issues …

3. Emerging issues
Chemical monitoring (see agenda item 2.4)
State-of-the-environment reporting (see item 2.5)
Structural and Regional Policy (see item 3.2)
Hydropower and navigation (see item 3.3)
Transboundary river basin management
Climate change

4. Transboundary river basin management
Focus on transboundary river basins shared with non-EU countries at the Eastern “fringe”
Step 1: Information gathering – Questionnaires
Step 2: Discussion document on benchmarking for transboundary cooperation
Step 3: Development of a mandate for a guidance document on transboundary cooperation

5. Climate change
JRC report published – sound analytical basis
Follow-up within CIS to be discussed
Lack of regional scenarios
Integration of related activities (e.g. floods, droughts)
New Working Group under CIS? Mandate to be prepared.

6. Draft conclusions
Water Directors are invited:
take note and discuss the overall progress for the last six months
take note of the progress in the Working Groups
take note and discuss the emerging issues, in particular transboundary river basins and climate change