This paper examines the challenges and policy imperatives involved in implementing the Polluter Pays principle (PPP) in the context of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). It presents the state of play of the Polluter Pays principle in EU Member States. It also analyses the coherence with other...

Water pollution in the Danube river basin originates from various sources such as households, industrial installations and agriculture. Under the 2000 water framework directive, Member States adopt river basin management plans which have to include measures to combat this pollution. The Court...

Water pollution in the Danube river basin originates from various sources such as households, industrial installations and agriculture. Under the 2000 water framework directive, Member States adopt river basin management plans which have to include measures to combat this pollution. The Court...

Water pollution in the Danube river basin originates from various sources such as households, industrial installations and agriculture. Under the 2000 water framework directive, Member States adopt river basin management plans which have to include measures to combat this pollution. The Court...

The report on the Chemical Monitoring Activity On-Site event describes the comparison of different methodologies currently applied in European laboratories for the analysis of pollutants that shall be regulated within the Water Framework Directive.

This guidance document, produced by Working Group 2.9 Public Participation, aims at assisting competent authorities in the Member States and accession countries with the implementation of Article 14 of the water framework directive in the area of public participation. It can also benefit...

This guidance document, produced by Working Group 2.7 Monitoring, proposes an overall methodological approach to monitoring for the implementation of the WFD. Because of the diversity of catchment pressures, water-body types, biological communities and hydromorphological and physico-chemical...

Existing EU-wide guidance effectively addresses the derivation of EQSbiota (EC 2011), but not how to implement the standards. CIS Guidance 25 (EC 2010) addresses some of the questions but does not cover how the results derived from such monitoring programmes are used to assess compliance with...

This Technical Guidance Document on Analytical Methods for Biota Monitoring aims to facilitate the implementation of environmental quality standards (EQS) in biota under the Water Framework Directive by addressing the extraction and analytical processes required for the priority substances to be...