Implementation of the Water Framework Directive in a transboundary context

 

General

EVD has contracted the consortium Ameco-Tauw-REC to provide assistance to the Hungarian and Slovakian Government for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in a transboundary context. Besides the private contractors also RIZA (the Dutch national research institute for inland waters and waste water treatment) and two water boards De Dommel and Regge en Dinkel are part of the consortium.

The project is being supported in the framework of the PSO Pre-Accession programme (PPA). This programme aims to assist the former candidate member states in Central and Eastern Europe in meeting the criteria for EU membership through projects dealing with the implementation of European legislation.

The Terms of Reference of this project have been under discussion in the last few months. In September 2004 all parties involved reached agreement on the project goals, approach and results. The project will deliver the following results:

• a partial transboundary River Basin Management Plan (RBMP) for the Hornad-Hernád Basin according to the transboundary principles of the Water Framework Directive (art. 13 and annex VII) and increased knowledge of competent national and regional Hungarian and Slovak authorities through dissemination of lessons learned from the transboundary process.’
• a common Hungarian-Slovak system for the monitoring and evaluation of policy compliance.

The underlying document reports on the findings during the Inception phase and the conclusions of the consortium with regard to the final project setup. Based on this, a final project setup is presented together with schedules, resources and a revised project budget.