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PAST AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN POLAND

Małgorzata Barszczyńska; [email protected] Walczykiewicz; [email protected]

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Branch Division

in Cracow; ul. Piotra Borowego 14, 30-215 Kraków; Poland

International Conference Integrated River Basin ManagementBratislava-Slovakia

2006, May

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International Conference Integrated River Basin ManagementBratislava-Slovakia, 2006, May

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PAST AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER

FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN POLAND

The Water Law of 2001 (act of July18, 2001) is the fundament of the river basin management in Poland. It defines the objectives, instruments, procedures and the institutional actors of the water administration. It already contains basic elements of the WFD, mainly in Part III “Water Protection” and Part VI “Management of Water Resources”. In particular, the basic objective to achieve a good ecological status of the water bodies and to prevent the deterioration of the quality status is formulated in Article 38 of the WFD.


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PAST AND CURRENT ACTIVITIES IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE IN POLAND

The main targets of water management in Poland are:improving the purity level of surface waters,securing the required amount of good quality water, with proper level of assurance,reducing the amount of flood destruction

Following the integrated water resources management ideas, those targets must be pursued in compliance with the socially and

economically grounded demands as well as with the needs of environmental protection.


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River BasinDistrictsin Poland


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In implementation process in Poland are involved first of all the following institutions responsible for water management issues:Ministry of Environment Water Management Office (BGW)7 Regional Water Management BoardsChief Inspectorate for Environmental ProtectionVoivodship Inspectorates for Environmental ProtectionInstitute of Meteorology and Water ManagementState Geological InstituteInstitute for Environmental Protection


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Water Authoritiesin Poland – RZGW

(Regional WaterManagement

Boards)


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All activities comprise:shaping the state policy,serving instruments including sufficient data management system and water quality monitoring,issuing regulations, planning instruments,water cadastre - water management information system,

education of the society and scientific research.


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In implementation process of WFD in Poland the followingrelated programs and donor activities are engaged:

International Commission for the Protection of the Odra (ICPO)Methodology of elaboration the national water development plan within the scope the WFD – grant financed by State Committee for Scientific Research and co-ordinated by Cracow University of TechnologyPhare PL2000/IB/EN/03- Development of Human resources for Pollution Prevention and Control within Regional and Local Institutional Framework.Phare PL2000/IB/EN/01 project titled „Strengthen Environmental Impact Assessment”Phare PL 99/IB/EN/01 Strengthening the Polish public administration including lnspectorates for Environmental Protection in the area of environmental legislation enforcement vis-a-vis new administrative system of Poland


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Phare PL98/IB/EN/01 Institution building twinning project for the Ministry of Environmental ProtectionPhare PL/2002/IB/EN/01: Implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC – Twinning Component – with Bavarian Water Management Agency completed in 2005Phare PL/2002/000-580.05.01 Technical Assistance in Implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC in Poland performed consortium ARCADIS(NL)-PROEKO(PL) completed in 2005.Phare PL/2003/005-710.05.02 : Continuation of implementation of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC in Poland –Twinning Component –with France to be completed in mid 2006


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Within the Vistula, Oder river basins and international sub-basins we have:

established basic law rules,improved organizational structures,implemented policing mechanism,organized trained staff open to the „public”.


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The implementation of the European Union (EU) Water Framework Directive (WFD) has already gained significant level in Poland. Efforts have concentrated on delivering the first requirements of the WFD, in particular the characterisation of river basin districts as specified in Article 5 of the directive. Results of the characterisation has been finalised in report delivered to the European Commission (EC) in March 2005.


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Basic elements of the 2005 report like surface waters typology, reference conditions for surface waters and delineation of surface water bodies and ground water bodies have been elaborated by consortium created by four research institutes: Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, State Geological Institute, Institute for Environmental Protection and Marine Institute.


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Codeof river type

Numberof river

water bodies

Codeof river type

Numberof river

water bodies

1 4 15 9

2 2 16 294

3 8 17 1788

4 117 18 298

5 32 19 238

6 120 20 107

7 53 21 37

8 31 22 16

9 46 23 313

10 9 24 91

12 280 25 105

14 28 26 59

River types


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Map of 160groundwater bodies

in Poland


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Heavily modified riverwater bodies

207 river waterbodies were set inVistula river basin210 river waterbodies were set inOdra river basin


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The artificialriver water bodies

88 are located inVistula river basin96 are located inOdra river basin


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Ecological status

Evaluationin view of point

sources of pollution


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Ecological status

Evaluationin view of diffuse

sources of pollution


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Ecological status

Evaluationin view of morphological

alterations


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Ecological status

Evaluationin view of water

abstractions


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Conclusions:The present activity will review the structure of the existing Geographic Information System and improving data collection system. The pressures and impacts analysis and related risk-assessment already undertaken for the 2005 report to the European Commission will be improved and complemented.On the contrary, the different analyses required for selecting measures (e.g. cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit when costs are considered disproportionate) and for feeding into the river basin management plan (e.g. looking at financing, socio-economic and distributional impacts, etc.) will be new and receive most attention.


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Conclusions:

Specific analyses and tasks required for developing the programme of measures and writing the river basin management plan will be undertaken including investigating future changes, undertaking the cost-effectiveness analysis, valuating environmental costs, undertaking the cost-benefit analysis for justifying derogation or the designation of heavily modified water bodies.


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Thank you for your attention

Małgorzata Barszczyńska; [email protected] Walczykiewicz; [email protected]

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management,Branch Division in Cracowul. Piotra Borowego 14 30-215 Kraków; Poland



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