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Water Framework Directive
and Heavily Modified Water Bodies

12 - 13 March 2009, Brussels



Presentations

 

Session I:

HMWB Designation, GEP, Objective Setting & Measures

Chair: Anton Steiner, DE

 

Welcome by Host
Representation of the Free State of Bavaria to the EU

Director Heidrun Piwernetz

 

Welcome and Aims of Workshop - EC view on state of play of HMWB
Jorge Rodriguez Romero

(EC, DG Environment)

 

Summary of MS Questionnaires on HMWB [pdf, 430 KB]

Eleftheria Kampa
(Ecologic Institute, Berlin)

 

Peter Pollard
(Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

 

(Ministry for Agriculture and Environment, Saxony-Anhalt)

 
   

Session II:

Parallel Working Groups

WG I:

Hydropower

HMWB designation, GEP Establishment, Objectives & Measures

Moderator: Rory Wallace, UK

Rapporteurs: Tor Simon Pedersen, NO & Ales Bizjak, SI

Support: Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic Institute

 

Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Statement on designation [pdf, 2,2 MB]

Veronika Koller-Kreimel

(Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management)

GEP Establishment

Aura River Basin - Application of Both GEP Approaches on the Same Water Bodies - Experience and Remaining Challenges in Norway [pdf, 2,9 MB]

Jo Halvard Halleraker
(Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management & Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate)

Finland:

GEP or not GEP? - A Finnish Approach for Assessing the Status of HMWB (Hydropower Focus) [pdf, 416 KB]

Mika Marttunen

(Finnish Environment Institute)

Objective setting & measures

(Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

Stakeholders

Hydropower sector [pdf, 1,3 MB]

(Otto Pirker, EURELECTRIC)

Small Hydropower sector [pdf, 407 KB]

(Luigi Papetti, European Small Hydropower Association)

Hydropower: The environmental NGO perspective [pdf, 183 KB]

(Gerhard Nagl, European Environmental Bureau)

   

WG II:

Navigation & Ports

HMWB Designation, GEP Establishment, Objectives & Measures

Moderator: Volker Mohaupt, DE

Rapporteur: David Corbelli, UK, Chris Vivian, CEFAS/CEDA

Support: Cornelius Laaser, Ecologic Institute)

 

Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Belgium:

Statement on designation [pdf, 406 KB]

Wim Gabriels

(Flemish Environment Agency)

Experiences in HMWB designation from ports and navigable water bodies [pdf, 123 KB]

Jan Brooke

(WFD Navigation Task Group)

GEP Establishment

UK:

Experiences in HMWB GEP setting and measures from ports and navigable water bodies [pdf, 252 KB]

Jan Brooke

(WFD Navigation Task Group)

Objective setting & measures

The Netherlands:

Navigation & ports in the GEP process [pdf, 315 KB]

Paul Latour

(Center for Water Management)

Stakeholders

Navigation: The environmental NGO perspective [pdf, 993 KB]

(Sergey Moroz, WWF EPO)

   

WG III:

Agriculture & Flood Defense

HMWB Designation, GEP Establishment, Objectives & Measures

Moderator: Ursula Schmedtje, EC

Rapporteur: Rene Reisner, EE; Rebecca Fitton, UK

Support: Thomas Dworak, Ecologic Institute

 

Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Germany:

Statement on designation [pdf, 537 KB]

Thomas Menzel, Ministry for the Environment and Conservation,
Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia)

GEP Establishment

The Netherlands:

The road and hurdles towards GEP for large rivers in the Netherlands [pdf, 901 KB]

Fred Wagemaker

(RWS - Center for Water Management)

France:

The French approach on GEP establishment - A typology of HMWB [pdf, 1,4 MB]

Johann Moy

(Ministry of Environment)

Objective setting & measures

UK:

Alternative approach to GEP, objectives setting & measures for flood risk and land drainage activities [pdf, 355 KB]

Kevin Hall

(Environment Agency of England and Wales)

Stakeholders

Designation and the "Changing" of Designation of HMWB 2003-2007:
Case Study from Lower Saxony, DE [pdf, 1,3 MB]

Moritz Busse

(BUND, Wassernetz Niedersachsen/Bremen)

Agriculture Sector

Tania Runge

(COPA-COGECA)

 
 

Session III:

Working Group Reports

Co-Chairs:

Jorge Rodriguez Romero, EC

Bernd Mehlhorn, DE

 

HMWB Designation

WG I Rapporteur - Hydropower [pdf, 62 KB]

WG II Rapporteur - Navigation & ports [pdf, 54 KB]

WG III Rapporteur - Agriculture & Flood Defence [pdf, 163 KB]

 

GEP Establishment

WG I Rapporteur - Hydropower [pdf, 62 KB]

WG II Rapporteur - Navigation & ports [pdf, 54 KB]

WG III Rapporteur - Agriculture & Flood Defence [pdf, 163 KB]

 

Objectives & Measures

WG I Rapporteur - Hydropower [pdf, 137 KB]

WG II Rapporteur - Navigation & ports [pdf, 54 KB]

WG III Rapporteur - Agriculture & Flood Defence [pdf, 163 KB]

   
 

Session IV

Conclusion & Outlook

Co-Chairs:

Peter Pollard, UK

Volker Mohaupt, DE

 

Conclusion & Outlook [pdf, 82 KB]

   

 




Workshop organised by Ecologic on behalf of Germany, the UK and the European Commission in cooperation with the WFD CIS-ECOSTAT-group and the CIS-HYMO-activity.

Hosted by the Free State of Bavaria.

Co-organised by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the Scottish Executive (SE), the UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and the European Commission, DG Environment.


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