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needed. The timetable incorporated into the WFD requires one complete cycle of
evaluation and management to be completed by the end of 2015, and some of the
steps have already been carried out.
In Scotland, our (regional) parliament, which met in 1999 for the first time since
1707, used newly devolved powers to pass the Water Environment and Water
Services (Scotland) Act (2003), summarized as a law that, amongst other objectives,
make provision for protection of the water environment, including provision for
implementing European Parliament and Council Directive 2000/60/EC. This law
gives the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) the responsibility of
drawing up the River Basin Management Plans required by the Directive to report
pressures on water bodies, the existing quality status, protected areas, monitoring
plans, and programmes of measures. Local authorities, analogous to municipalities
or counties in other parts of Europe, must liaise with SEPA and take account of the
WFD, and of programmes of measures, when giving permission for new building
works. It is expected that some of the management measures will result from consent, because the WFD explicitly requires “stakeholder involvement”, and that
surveillance monitoring programme
if: good
water
status
if: water status
NOT good
Iterative improvement procedure according to
the Water Framework Directive
(surface) water status - the poorer of:
high
good
moderate poor bad
ecological status - measured by biological,
hydromorphological and physico-chemical
elements, compared with values under
type-specific reference conditions
chemical status - measured by concentrations
of pollutants - good if below EQS
PROGRAMME OF MEASURES
intended to improve status
operational monitoring programme
Identify and type the water body
Fig. 1.5 Flow diagram for the operation of the Water Framework Directive – showing the relationship between the objective of maintaining good status, programmes of measures, and monitoring
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needed. The timetable incorporated into the WFD requires one complete cycle of
evaluation and management to be completed by the end of 2015, and some of the
steps have already been carried out.
In Scotland, our (regional) parliament, which met in 1999 for the first time since
1707, used newly devolved powers to pass the Water Environment and Water
Services (Scotland) Act (2003), summarized as a law that, amongst other objectives,
make provision for protection of the water environment, including provision for
implementing European Parliament and Council Directive 2000/60/EC. This law
gives the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) the responsibility of
drawing up the River Basin Management Plans required by the Directive to report
pressures on water bodies, the existing quality status, protected areas, monitoring
plans, and programmes of measures. Local authorities, analogous to municipalities
or counties in other parts of Europe, must liaise with SEPA and take account of the
WFD, and of programmes of measures, when giving permission for new building
works. It is expected that some of the management measures will result from consent, because the WFD explicitly requires “stakeholder involvement”, and that
surveillance monitoring programme
if: good
water
status
if: water status
NOT good
Iterative improvement procedure according to
the Water Framework Directive
(surface) water status - the poorer of:
high
good
moderate poor bad
ecological status - measured by biological,
hydromorphological and physico-chemical
elements, compared with values under
type-specific reference conditions
chemical status - measured by concentrations
of pollutants - good if below EQS
PROGRAMME OF MEASURES
intended to improve status
operational monitoring programme
Identify and type the water body
Fig. 1.5 Flow diagram for the operation of the Water Framework Directive – showing the relationship between the objective of maintaining good status, programmes of measures, and monitoring