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2005-04-14- The work on setting up systems to assess surface waters being at risk when abstraction is taking place has come out with a guideline for this. The work has been carried out in Ireland and the guideline gives simple tools to carry out the assessment, Ireland.

2004-11-10: WFD, Landuse and water resources. UK

2004-12-02/03: SWIFT-WFD: Sensors and bioassays for screening pollution, Spain

2005-05-19/20: River Basin Management. Impl. of the WFD, Hungary

2005-05-20/24: Design of Water Quality Monitoring networks, Denmark.
 

News on the Water Framework Directive - Legal Transposition:
Three years after the entry into force of the Water Framework Directive, the Member States were required to incorporate the requirements of the Directive into their national legislation. Out of the 15 former Member States, five (AT, DK, EL, ES, IE) have notified the legal instruments to transpose the Water Framework Directive in time, i.e. by 22 December 2003. In addition, Germany and Belgium had partially transposed the Directive. Germany has adopted national framework legislation but adoption of specific legislation in the 16 Federal States (“Länder”) needs to be completed. Only some “Länder” have finalised that process yet. In Belgium, first the Flemish Region and later the Wallone Region have transposed the WFD, the Brussels Region is still working on the transposition. From January to June, UK (with the exception for Gibraltar), Sweden and France have notified their legal transposition. Thus, by the end of May, Finland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal had not notified any information on the transposition. The 10 new Member States had to notify the completion of the legal transposition by the 1st May 2004. Eight of these 10 Member States had notified the completion of this process to the Commission by the accession date. Malta and Slovak Republic were the only two new Member States which had not done so. Both countries confirmed that the transposition is completed, however formal notification to the Commission was still pending. This is expected to happen shortly. Consequently, in July the Commission took legal action against those Member States which had not completed their transposition. For further information click here.