Water Framework Directive scientific and technical support related to ecological status - summary report of JRC activities in 2015
This report summarises the scientific and technical contributions of DG JRC to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) related to ecological status covering the year 2015. JRC is providing long-term support aimed at achieving a common understanding of good status and potential, the principal environmental objectives of the WFD.
An important aspect of this work is the WFD intercalibration exercise as required in WFD Annex V 1.4.1, ensuring that classification methods are compliant with the Directive’s requirement and give comparable result, thus establishing a level playing field for the measures that need to be taken my Member States to achieve good status or potential.
JRC scientific and technical support is carried out in the framework of the WFD “common implementation strategy” (CIS) mandated by the EU Water Directors, where JRC is responsible for the working group on Ecological Status (ECOSTAT), working with experts from all Member States and key stakeholder organisations. Main issues covered in 2015 were intercalibration of good ecological status, intercalibration of good ecological potential, nutrient standards, typology, and hydromorphology.
A new CIS work programme has been agreed upon by the Water Directors in which the JRC will continue to play a key role in the ECOSTAT working group for the years 2016-2018.
VAN DE BUND Wouter;
POIKANE Sandra;
2016-01-19
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC99231
978-92-79-54592-4,
1831-9424,
EUR 27707,
OP LB-NA-27707-EN-N,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC99231,
10.2788/071200,
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