This presentation review the issues at stake with the upcoming common implementation strategy 2013-15 and discuss them from a stakeholder point of view in line with the preparation of the 2nd planning cycle.

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Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC
Common Implementation Strategy 2013-15
CEEP water group meeting in Brussels on July 1, 2013
Frédéric de Hemptinne
The Sustainable Synergies Group
fdh@sustainable-synergies.eu
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 1

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• The CIS process started in 2001.
• Multiplicity of topics  limited resources
• Exceptional water directors meeting on 8 April 2013
• Needs to follow up with the 2012 Blueprint
(implementation gaps, delays)
• Need for enhanced coordination (Nature, CAP)
• The 2nd planning cycle must deliver.
• Limited need for new water legislation?
The context
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• Artificial split of topics across groups
• Artificial separation of water quality and quantity,
• Topics overlooked/with no natural home
• Proliferation of working/expert groups with self-
sustaining attitude
• Loss of 'big picture' by SCG and WD
• Above shortcomings mirrored in MS and
Commission organisation (chicken/egg?)
Issues that need to be fixed
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• Shared analysis of outcome of CAP negotiations and
needed follow up
• Information exchange on funding outside CAP
• Discussion on implementation of Art.5
• Exchange of experience on exemptions
• Spread best practices on sustainable leakage
• SPI, reporting cycles streamlining, WISE upgrading,
linked up implementation with water related
directives continue throughout the cycle
CIS priorities for 2013
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 4

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• Guidance Water Pricing-Cost/Benefit
• Guidance Natural Water Retention Measures
• Guidance Water Accounts/E Flows
• Commission proposal on Revision Annexes GW
Directive
• Start peer review system
• Priority substances watch list + Guidance on
monitoring
CIS priorities for 2014
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 5

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• Guidance Target Setting (depending on modeling
availability)
• Guidance Water Trading
• Commission proposal on Water re-use
• Adoption of co-ordinated RBMPs and FRMPs.
RBMPs fully address Commission recommandations
on 1st cycle plans
• 2nd intercalibration round to be completed by 2016
CIS priorities for 2015
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 6

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01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 7

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• Chairmanship and role of the Strategic Coordination
Group (strategic thinking, coordination,
dissemination of the CIS )
• Preparatory meetings before the SCG sessions for
the SCG and WG chairmen
• 3 new clusters whose structure and working rules
are to be clarified
• A working group on economics is reestablished
(article 5 analysis, WATECO, examption).
Key changes
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 8

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• How to get involved in this new structure?
• How to be more influential in the SCG?
• Any possibility to join forces?
• How to liaise with river basin authorities and local
authorities?
• Exchange of best practices / benchmarking: how do
we contribute? What do we expect?
• Do we need to rethink the way we work?
Points for discussion
01/07/2013 CEEP water group meeting 9