The subject of this paper is presenting actual of works involving the determination of reference conditions for defined categories and types surface waters according to II Annex of Water Framework Directive 2000/60/WE of the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. The Framework Water Directive [WFD, 2000] makes the framework for the EU activities in terms of water policy, and the introduces in the member states the duty to plan and control water management within river basins. The main objective of the Water Framework Directive is to achieve good ecological status (till 2015) in all the defined water categories (rivers, lakes, transition water, coastal water and underground water). In the following years a good state of waters should be achieved in the areas where present natural, technical and economic conditions make it impossible to achieve in the first stage. In a planistic work over a sustainable development of river valleys and catchments one of the biggest tasks is ecological valuation. In solving this task a very efficient and practical tool includes REFERENCE CONDITIONS made according to Framework Water Directive. Reference conditions make a reference point according to which “the health” of an ecosystem of a given type of ...
In comparison with previous achievements connected with implementation of the European Union legislation related to the water resources management, the potential critical points of the Water Framework Directive implementation in Europe and in Poland are presented. In assessment of potential risk, organization of the implementation process, its financing and schedule, as well as data issues were considered. The demanding schedule of the Directive implementation is based on six-year cycle of planning, with established logical sequence of particular actions. Realization of each action on time, let us to go to the next point of the schedule. In order to implementation European regulations coordination of work and cooperation among all institutions involved in the whole process is necessary. Only mobilization and integration of circles connected with water resources management, allow to work out the best solutions, which allow to fully implement of the WFD resolutions. From among already finished work related to the Directive, in this paper Authors focused on experience connected with realization: “Assessment of the hazard that aggregated water bodies will fail to meet the environmental quality objectives” and “Assessment of the risk that aggregated water bodies will fail to meet the environmental quality objectives” in pilot catchment area of ...
