WFD Navigation Task Group
participation in CIS activities
The WFD is being
implemented in a series of stages.
Whilst Member States are ultimately responsible for implementing the WFD
and ensuring that water bodies achieve good status by 2015, it is a ‘framework’
Directive. As such, there was
necessarily a great deal of work to be completed to ensure consistent
interpretation of some of its provisions and to help address the sometimes significant
technical challenges it raises in a coordinated way. This work is being led by the European
Commission through the WFD ‘Common
Implementation Strategy’ (CIS) process.
The WFD Navigation Task
Group has coordinated the sector’s participation in the CIS process, including
preparing discussion documents and responses to various consultations. Navigation representation on the Strategic
Coordination Group and various CIS Working or Drafting Groups is summarised on
the following table:
|
WFD Common Implementation
Strategy: Group or Activity |
Navigation sector
representative(s). To contact a
particular representative, please enquire at wfd@pianc.org |
|
Strategic Coordination
Group |
Jan Brooke for ESPO Axel Netzband for CEDA Mirna Cieniewicz for European Boating
Industry Jörg Rusche/Resi
Hacksteiner for EBU CCNR is also represented
(by Dieter Michael Saha) |
|
Environmental Objectives
Drafting Group, including the following: -
Guidance document on exemptions to the environmental objectives
|
Jan Brooke for PIANC and the WFD Navigation Task Group |
|
Chemical Aspects Working
Group E and sub-groups, see for example: -
Chemical monitoring of sediment and biota -
Technical
guidance for deriving environmental quality standards |
Stephen Hull for ESPO Erik Mink for EuDA Albert Willemsen for ICOMIA SedNet is involved but with a wider remit than only
navigation |
|
CIS Climate Change Expert
Group, see, for example: -
River Basin Management in a changing climate |
Jan Brooke for PIANC and the WFD Navigation Task Group Karin de Schepper for INE Mirna Cieniewicz for European Boating
Industry Maja Fickert for PIANC Resi Hacksteiner for EBU |
|
Hydromorphology Strategic Steering Group (see publications) |
Jan Brooke for PIANC and the WFD Navigation Task Group Jörg Rusche/Resi Hacksteiner for EBU CCNR is also represented
(by Gernot Pauli) |
EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive
A similar process to the
Common Implementation Strategy operates for the implementation of the 2008 EU Marine Strategy
Directive (MSFD). As there are important overlaps between this
Marine Directive and the WFD in coastal water bodies, Jan Brooke participates
on behalf of PIANC and the WFD Navigation Task Group in the MSFD Strategic
Coordination Group and in the CEDA-led Marine Strategy Navigation Group.
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