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Water Framework Directive
and Hydromorphology

17-19 October 2005, Prague



Presentations

Session I: Introduction and aims of workshop - setting the scene

Common Implementation Strategy - Draft mandate for a CIS activity on hydromorphology
Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment
[pdf, 221 KB, English]

Session II: Results of the river basin characterisation with a focus on hydromorphology

Summary of the analysis of the WFD Article 5 reports in relation to hydromorphology
[pdf, 587 KB, English]
Preliminary results from WFD Article 5 reports
[xls, 78 KB, English]
Norwegian example

[pdf, 11 KB, English]
John Wood, WRc

Hydromorphological issues in the Danube Basin Analysis Roof Report

Birgit Vogel, International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River
[pdf, 5.5 MB, English]

Session III: Policy integration

Key issues from the Commission perspective – DG Environment
Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment
[pdf, 252 KB, English]

Key issues from the Commission perspective – DG Tren
Karina Veum European Commission - DG Tren
[pdf, 603 KB, English]

Stakeholder Statements:

Policy Integration: Water Framework Directive and hydropower
Jukka Muotka, Eurelectric
[pdf, 314 KB, English]

The position of the European small hydropower sector
Bernhard Pelikan, European Small Hydropower Association
[pdf, 359 KB, English]

Joint Statement of the Navigation Task Group
Jan Brooke, European Seaports Organisation
[pdf, 56 KB, English]

Inland waterway transport – a sustainable and efficient mode of transport
Joerg Rusche, European Barge Union
[pdf, 67 KB, English]

Statement of the Secretariat of the Central Commission for the Navigation on the Rhine
[pdf, 38 KB, English]

WFD Hydromorphology: A Challenge for Policy Integration
Nicoletta Toniutti, WWF - Italy
[pdf, 747 KB, English]

Preliminary joint environmental NGO input

Eva Royo Gelabert, WWF Global Freshwater Programme - Europe

[pdf, 295 KB, English]

other statements:

Statement of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing

[pdf, 47 KB, English]

Session IV: Assessment Criteria

Introduction to the technical sessions of the workshop - aims and objectives of the parallel working groups

Ulrich Irmer, Federal Environmental Agency - Germany
[pdf, 928 KB, English]

Opportunities for common approaches in heavily modified watercourses - Experiences from the joint study of Austria, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden
Mika Marttunen, Finnish Environment Institute - Finland
[pdf, 382 MB, English]

Quantitative criteria for evaluation of pressures in order to designate the HMWB
Daniela Radulescu, National Administration Apele Romane / Romanian Waters - Romania
[pdf, 777 KB, English]

Parallel working groups:

Working groups risk criteria

Development of morphological standards in the United Kingdom
Roy Richardson, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 573 KB, English]

Assessment of hydromorphological pressures and impacts in Germany
Jörg Janning, Ministry of Environment Lower Saxony - Germany
[pdf, 1.6 MB, English]

Other interventions on risk criteria:

Austria [pdf, 216 KB, English]

Belgium [pdf, 35 KB, English]
Finland [pdf, 95 KB, English]
Hungary [pdf, 1.3 MB, English]
Ireland [pdf, 161 KB, English]
Latvia [pdf, 54 KB, English]
Poland [pdf, 335 KB, English]
Slovenia [pdf, 274 KB, English]
Sweden [pdf, 111 KB, English]
The Netherlands [pdf, 155 KB, English]
United Kingdom [pdf, 47 KB, English]

Working groups HMWB criteria


Possible HMWBs – LSOs in the Aura Hydropower scheme
Tor Simon Pedersen, Water Resources and Energy Directorate – Norway
[pdf, 71 KB, English]

HMWB: Preliminary designation in the Czech Republic
Marek Mat’a, DHI Hydroinform – Czech Republic
[pdf, 2.1 MB, English]

General methodology and economic data in the final process of HMWB classification
Patrick Deronzier, Ministry of Ecology - France
[pdf, 397 KB, English]

Other interventions on HMWB criteria:

Austria [pdf, 655 KB, English]

Belgium [pdf, 35 KB, English]
Ireland [pdf, 504 KB, English]
Latvia [pdf, 606 KB, English]
Lithuania [pdf, 19 KB, English]
Netherlands [pdf, 59 KB, English]
Poland [pdf, 364 KB, English]

Portugal [pdf, 724 KB, English]
Slovac Republic [pdf, 44 KB, English]
Slovenia [pdf, 939 KB, English]
Sweden [pdf, 111 KB, English]
United Kingdom [pdf, 263 KB, English]

Navigation Sector [pdf, 71 KB, English]

Session V: Mitigation measures

Mitigation measures for new and existing water uses and introduction to the parallel working groups

Martin Marsden, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 136 KB, English]

Mitigation measures to improve the water quality of rivers used for hydropower generation
Uli Dumont, Ingenieurbüro Floecksmühle - Germany
[pdf, 1.6 MB, English]

Navigation and HMWB
Guillaume Demortier, Agence de l'Eau Rhin-Meuse - France
Geraldine Aubert, Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie - France
[pdf, 748 KB, English]

Parallel working groups:

Working groups Hydropower

Mitigation measures in relation to Hydropower Generation in the Danube basin
Robert Konecny, Federal Environment Agency - Austria
[pdf, 1 MB, English]

Mitigation measures in the Suldai River Basin Management Plan
Steinar Sandoy, Directorate for Nature Management - Norway
[pdf, 390 KB, English]

Defining reference conditions and environmental objectives for the heavily modified river Oulujoki

Seppo Hellsten, Finnish Environment Institute - Finland
Jukka Muotka, Eurelectric
[pdf, 395 KB, English]

Best practice for impoundments
David Crookall, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 914 KB, English]

Other interventions on hydropower:
Ireland [pdf, 374 KB, English]
Sweden [pdf, 15 KB, English]

Working group navigation

Case study on using dredged material for mitigating marine navigation works
Andy Birchenough, The Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science - United Kingdom
[pdf, 1.8 MB, English]

Other interventions on navigation:

Navigation Sector
[pdf, 30 KB, English]
Dredging Sector
[pdf, 1.5 MB, English]

Working group flood defence & other uses

Mitigation issues for flood risk management – soft options or hard choices?

Jane Rawson, Environment Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 994 KB, English]

Session VI: Reports from parallel working groups

Report from group: Risk criteria I
Nicole Kranz, Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
[pdf, 36 KB, English]
Report from group: Risk criteria II
Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
[pdf, 31 KB, English]
Report from group: HMWB criteria I
David Corbelli, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 42 KB, English]
Report from group: HMWB criteria II
Jane Rawson, Environment Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 29 KB, English]
Report from group: Hydropower I
Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
[pdf, 33 KB, English]
Report from group: Hydropower II
David Crookall, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 29 KB, English]
Report from group: Navigation
Nicole Kranz, Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
[pdf, 33 KB, English]
Report from group: Flood Defence & Other uses
Peter Pollard, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom
[pdf, 38 KB, English]

Session VII: Conclusions of the workshop

Conclusions on policy integration
Robert Hitchen, Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - United Kingdom
[pdf, 425 KB, English]

Conclusions on assessment criteria
Ulrich Irmer, Federal Environmental Agency – Germany
[pdf, 414 KB, English]

Conclusions on mitigation measures
Joyce Carr, Scottish Executive - United Kingdom
[pdf, 439 KB, English]

Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment
[pdf, 409 KB, English]

 


Workshop organised by Ecologic on behalf of:

 

The UK Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). Under the auspices of the UK presidency of the EU.

Hosted by the Ministry for the Environment of the Czech Republic. Co-organised by the Environment Agency of England and Wales, the German Federal Environment Agency and the European Commission who are leading the preparation of a mandate on the Water Framework Directive and hydromorphology.

 


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