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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

Eleftheria Kampa
(Ecologic Institute, Berlin)

UK:

Designation & Classification

David Corbelli
(Environment Agency of England & Wales)

Peter Pollard
(Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

Germany:

Designation & GEP

Ulrike Hursie

(Ministry for Agriculture and Environment, Saxony-Anhalt)

Netherlands:

GEP, Objectives & Measures

Diederik van der Molen,
(Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management)

Q&A - Discussion

Aims and Design of Working Groups

(Volker Mohaupt, German Federal Environment Agency)

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

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Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Austria:

Statement on designation

Veronika Koller-Kreimel

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

GEP Establishment

Norway:

Aura River Basin - Application of Both GEP Approaches on the Same Water Bodies - Experience and Remaining Challenges in Norway

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)

Mika Marttunen

(Finnish Environment Institute)

Objective setting & measures

UK:

Statement on objective setting & measures

Peter Pollard

(Scottish Environment Protection Agency)

Stakeholders

Hydropower sector

(Otto Pirker, EURELECTRIC)

Small Hydropower sector

(Luigi Papetti, European Small Hydropower Association)

Hydropower: The environmental NGO perspective

(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)

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Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Belgium:

Statement on designation

Wim Gabriels

(Flemish Environment Agency)

Experiences in HMWB designation from ports and navigable water bodies

Jan Brooke

(WFD Navigation Task Group)

GEP Establishment

UK:

Experiences in HMWB GEP setting and measures from ports and navigable water bodies

Jan Brooke

(WFD Navigation Task Group)

Objective setting & measures

The Netherlands:

Navigation & ports in the GEP process

Paul Latour

(Center for Water Management)

Stakeholders

Navigation: The environmental NGO perspective

(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

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Presentations/Statements:

HMWB Designation

Germany:

Statement on designation

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

Fred Wagemaker

(RWS - Center for Water Management)

France:

The French approach on GEP establishment - A typology of HMWB

Johann Moy

(Ministry of Environment)

Objective setting & measures

UK:

Alternative approach to GEP, objectives setting & measures for flood risk and land drainage activities

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

Moritz Busse

(BUND, Wassernetz Niedersachsen/Bremen)

Agriculture Sector

Tania Runge

(COPA-COGECA)

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13 March 2009

Session III:

Working Group Reports

Co-Chairs:

Jorge Rodriguez Romero, EC

Bernd Mehlhorn, DE

HMWB Designation

WG I Rapporteur – Hydropower

WG II Rapporteur – Navigation & ports

WG III Rapporteur – Agriculture & Flood Defence

Plenary Discussion

GEP Establishment

WG I Rapporteur – Hydropower

WG II Rapporteur – Navigation & ports

WG III Rapporteur – Agriculture & Flood Defence

Plenary Discussion

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Objectives & Measures

WG I Rapporteur – Hydropower

WG II Rapporteur – Navigation & ports

WG III Rapporteur – Agriculture & Flood Defence

Plenary Discussion

Session IV

Conclusion & Outlook

Co-Chairs:

Peter Pollard, UK

Volker Mohaupt, DE

Summary & Outlook