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6.1 Integrated Water Management for Quality and Quantity
6.1.1 European Water Framework Directive
After a long consultation process the Water Framework Directive (WFD, EC 2000) was
published in 2000 as legislation for an integrated approach on water quality aspects, that is,
ecological and chemical status of water bodies in the European Union. Hence, the WFD is
the most important European legislations with regard to the context of this book. Various
other Directives also regulate the water sector such as the Groundwater Directive (first
80/68/EEC, currently 2006/118/EC) and the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) which
are altogether subsumed as daughter Directives of the WFD.
European water legislation
1 began with setting standards for rivers and lakes used for
drinking water abstraction in 1975, and led in 1980 to quality targets for drinking water. In
1988 the existing legislation was reviewed and a number of improvements and gaps were
identified. This resulted in 1991 in the adoption of, for example, the Urban Waste Water
Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), providing a more stringent treatment of waste water
where necessary and the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC), addressing water pollution by
nitrates from agriculture.
Further results were proposals on a new Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC), reviewing the quality standards and, where necessary, tightening them and a Directive
for Integrated Pollution and Prevention Control (IPPC, 96/61/EC), adopted in 1996 and
substantially amended in 2008 (2008/1/EC), addressing pollution from large industrial installations which was replaced by the Directive on Industry Emissions (2010/75/EC) in
2010.
1 See ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/
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Management
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6.1 Integrated Water Management for Quality and Quantity
6.1.1 European Water Framework Directive
After a long consultation process the Water Framework Directive (WFD, EC 2000) was
published in 2000 as legislation for an integrated approach on water quality aspects, that is,
ecological and chemical status of water bodies in the European Union. Hence, the WFD is
the most important European legislations with regard to the context of this book. Various
other Directives also regulate the water sector such as the Groundwater Directive (first
80/68/EEC, currently 2006/118/EC) and the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) which
are altogether subsumed as daughter Directives of the WFD.
European water legislation
1 began with setting standards for rivers and lakes used for
drinking water abstraction in 1975, and led in 1980 to quality targets for drinking water. In
1988 the existing legislation was reviewed and a number of improvements and gaps were
identified. This resulted in 1991 in the adoption of, for example, the Urban Waste Water
Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC), providing a more stringent treatment of waste water
where necessary and the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC), addressing water pollution by
nitrates from agriculture.
Further results were proposals on a new Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC), reviewing the quality standards and, where necessary, tightening them and a Directive
for Integrated Pollution and Prevention Control (IPPC, 96/61/EC), adopted in 1996 and
substantially amended in 2008 (2008/1/EC), addressing pollution from large industrial installations which was replaced by the Directive on Industry Emissions (2010/75/EC) in
2010.
1 See ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/
c
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018
121
F. Ahlhorn, Integrated Coastal Zone Management,
Wasser: Ökologie und Bewirtschaftung, DOI 10.1007/978-3-658-17052-3_6