| Day
One - Monday, 17 October 2005 |
|
10:30 |
Begin Registration |
| 12:15 |
Lunch |
Session
I: Introduction and aims of workshop - setting the scene
Chair: Richard Bird, Water Director - United Kingdom |
| 13:30 |
Welcome to the workshop
Pavel Puncochar, Water Director - Czech Republic |
| 13:40 |
Programme and
aims of the workshop
Richard Bird, Water Director - United Kingdom |
| 13:50 |
Introduction
to the workshop
Fritz Holzwarth, Water Director - Germany |
| 14:00 |
Common Implementation
Strategy - Draft mandate for a CIS activity on hydromorphology
Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment |
| 14:20 |
Questions / discussion |
Session
II: Results of the river basin characterisation with a focus
on hydromorphology
Chair: Richard Bird, Water Director - United Kingdom
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| 14:40 |
Summary
of the analysis of the WFD Article 5 reports in relation to
hydromorphology
John Wood, WRc |
| 15:00 |
Hydromorphological
issues in the Danube Basin Analysis Roof Report
Birgit Vogel, International Commission for the Protection
of the Danube River |
| 15:20 |
Discussion |
| 15:40 |
Coffee Break |
Session
III: Policy integration
Chair: Fritz Holzwarth,
Water Director - Germany |
| 16:10 |
Key issues from
the Commission perspective
Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment |
| 16:30 |
Stakeholder
Statements: |
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Hydropower
sector:
Jukka Muotka, Eurelectric
Bernhard Pelikan,
European Small Hydropower Association |
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Navigation
sector:
Jan Brooke, European
Seaports Organisation
Joerg Rusche, European
Barge Union |
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Other
hydromorphological drivers & NGO viewpoint:
Nicoletta Toniutti,
WWF - Italy |
| 17:30 |
Discussion
on policy integration issues in the context of the new CIS
activity on hydromorphology |
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Conclusions and recommendations
to the SCG |
| 18:40 |
End of Day One |
| 20:00 |
Joint Dinner
at Hotel Dorint - Don Giovanni
Welcome note by
Frantisek Pojer, Deputy Minister, Ministry of the Environment
- Czech Republic |
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| Day
Two - Tuesday, 18 October 2005 |
Session
IV: Assessment Criteria
Chair: Ulrich Irmer,
Federal Environmental Agency - Germany |
| 9:00 |
Introduction
to the technical sessions of the workshop - aims and objectives
of the parallel working groups
Ulrich Irmer, Federal
Environmental Agency - Germany |
| 9:10 |
Overview
of criteria for hydromorphological risk assessment and provisional
identification of HMWB in the Article 5 analyses
John Wood, WRc |
| 9:30 |
Case study examples: |
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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 |
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Quantitative
criteria for evaluation of pressures in order to designate
the HMWB
Daniela Radulescu,
National Administration Apele Romane / Romanian Waters - Romania |
| 10:10 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:30 |
Parallel
working groups: |
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Group:
Risk criteria I
Moderator: Bettina Rechenberg, Federal Environmental Agency
- Germany
Rapporteur: Nicole
Kranz, Ecologic |
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Development
of morphological standards in the United Kingdom
Roy Richardson, Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United
Kingdom |
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Group: Risk
criteria II
Moderator: Martin Marsden, Scottish Environment Protection
Agency - United Kingdom
Rapporteur: Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic |
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Assessment
of hydromorphological pressures and impacts in Germany
Jörg Janning, Ministry of Environment Lower
Saxony - Germany |
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Group:
HMWB criteria I
Moderator: Joyce Carr, Scottish Executive - United Kingdom
Rapporteur: David Corbelli, Scottish Environment Protection
Agency - United Kingdom |
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Possible
HMWBs – LSOs in the Aura Hydropower scheme
Tor Simon Pedersen, Water Resources and Energy Directorate
– Norway |
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Group:
HMWB criteria II
Moderator: Geir Taugbol, Water Resources and Energy Directorate
- Norway
Rapporteur: Jane Rawson, Environment Agency - United Kingdom |
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HMWB:
Preliminary designation in the Czech Republic
Marek Mat’a,
DHI Hydroinform – Czech Republic |
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General
methodology and economic data in the final process of HMWB
classification
Patrick Deronzier,
Ministry of Ecology - France |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
Session
V: Mitigation measures
Chair: Martin Marsden,
Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom |
| 14:30 |
Mitigation
measures for new and existing water uses and introduction
to the parallel working groups
Martin Marsden,
Scottish Environment Protection Agency - United Kingdom |
| 14:50 |
Case study examples: |
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Mitigation measures
to improve the water quality of rivers used for hydropower generation
Uli Dumont, Ingenieurbüro Floecksmühle - Germany |
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Navigation
and HMWB
Guillaume Demortier, Agence de l'Eau Rhin-Meuse -
France
Geraldine Aubert,
Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie - France |
| 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:50 |
Sector-based
parallel working groups |
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Group: Hydropower
I
Moderator: Robert Konecny, Federal Environment Agency - Austria
Rapporteur: Eleftheria Kampa, Ecologic |
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Mitigation
measures in relation to Hydropower Generation in the Danube
basin
Robert Konecny, Federal Environment Agency - Austria |
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Mitigation
measures in the Suldai River Basin Management Plan
Steinar Sandoy, Directorate for Nature Management
- Norway |
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Group: Hydropower
II
Moderator: Veronika Koller-Kreimel, Federal Ministry for Agriculture,
Forestry, Environment and Water Management - Austria
Rapporteur: David Crookall, Scottish Environment Protection
Agency - United Kingdom |
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Defining
reference conditions and environmental objectives for the
heavily modified river Oulujoki
Seppo Hellsten,
Finnish Environment Institute - Finland
Jukka Muotka, Eurelectric |
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Best
practice for impoundments
David Crookall, Scottish Environment
Protection Agency - United Kingdom |
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Group: Navigation
Moderator: Jörg Janning, Ministry of Environment Lower
Saxony - Germany
Rapporteur: Nicole Kranz, Ecologic |
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Case
study on using dredged material for mitigating marine navigation
works
Andy Birchenough, The Centre for Environment Fisheries
and Aquaculture Science - United Kingdom |
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Group: Flood
Defence & Other uses
Moderator: Jane Rawson, Environment Agency - United Kingdom
Rapporteur: Peter Pollard, Scottish Environment Protection Agency
- United Kingdom |
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Mitigation issues
for flood risk management – soft options or hard choices?
Jane Rawson, Environment Agency - United Kingdom |
| 18:20 |
End of Day Two |
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| Day
Three - Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
Session
VI: Reports from parallel working groups
Chair: Joyce Carr,
Scottish Executive - United Kingdom |
| 9:00 |
Reports
from parallel working groups on risk assessment criteria an
HMWB criteria
David Corbelli,
Eleftheria Kampa, Nicole Kranz, Jane Rawson
Discussion
|
| 10:00 |
Reports
from parallel working groups on mitigation measures
David Crookall,
Eleftheria Kampa, Nicole Kranz, Peter Pollard
Discussion |
| 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
Session
VII: Conclusions of the workshop
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Panel:
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Joyce
Carr, Scottish Executive - United Kingdom
Gilles Crosnier, European Commission - DG Environment
Robert Hitchen,
Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - United
Kingdom
Ulrich Irmer, Federal
Environmental Agency - Germany
|
| 11:20 |
Recommendations
for follow-up activities to be submitted to SCG
Discussion on how
to reflect the following in the draft mandate:
- Policy integration
- Assessment criteria
- Mitigation measures
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| 12:30 |
Closure of workshop |
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