A European Flood Action programme
 Key documents on
flood risk management
Directive 2007/60/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment
and management of flood risks
Published
in the Official Journal on 6 November 2007, page 27.
Negotiation and adoption
18/9/2007 : The Council adopts the Floods
Directive :
Justice and Home Affairs Council Press release (see pa 32, provisional)
Council voting list, including full document references with
corrigendums.
Text of the Directive as adopted by the Council (please note
that the text will only be legally binding once published
in the Official Journal)
  
Other language versions are available in the Council's document search engine [Search tip : look for
document with the interinstiutional reference 2006/0005(COD),
and note the corrigendums in the NL, DK, IT and SK versions.]
Full
information on the negotiations can also be accessed from
Pre-lex.
Second reading - negotiations on the proposed Directive
on the assessment and management of flood risks
25/5/2007 : The European Commission adopts its opinion
on the European Parliaments report in recond reading (COM(2007)294 of 25.5.2007).
25/04/2007 : The European Parliament adopts a compromise package agreed with the Council on the Directive
on the assessment and management of flood risks. Final adoption
by the Council is expected later in 2007.
First reading - negotiations on the proposed Directive
on the assessment and management of floods
6/12/2006 : The Commission's Communication COM(2006)775 to the European
Parliament on the Council's Common Position on the Directive
on the assessment and management of floods is adopted.
23/11/2006 : The Council adopts the Common Position on the "Directive on the assessment
and management of flood risks"
Search tips :
- First use the inter- institutional file reference for
the dossier : 2006/0005(COD) to access all documents
of the Council in relation to this file, then;
- document reference for the text of Directive the Common
position : 12131/06
- document reference for the Council's reasons : 12131/06
ADD 1
- document reference for the Commission's statement on the
Common position : 14566/06 ADD1
27/6/2006 : The Environment Council adopts a Political
agreement on a Common position on the floods Directive
13/6/2006 : European Parliament adopts a report in
the first reading on the Floods Directive
- Report A6-0182/2006, by MEP Seeber (EPP/AT)
                
- Informal consolidated version of EP report
17/5/2006 : European Economic and Social Committee adopts an opinion on the Floods Directive
Proposal for a Directive of the
European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment and
management of floods
Key related background documents:
Communication on Flood risk
management; Flood prevention, protection and mitigation
Information exchange on flood
risk management
The information exchange carried out in the context of the
Floods Action Programme and the Working Group on Floods has
led to the development of the following documents. (Please
note that these informal documents are endorsed by the Water
Directors, but do not necessarily express the view of the
European Commission or does not necessarily correspond to
the full requirements of Directive 2007/60/EC.)
CIRCA Information Exchange Platform
In order to promote exchange of information, the Commission
set up an internet-based platform, called "CIRCA".
CIRCA stands for "Communication Information Resource
Centre Administrator" and it is a software tool, developed
under the European Commission IDA programme,
which is tuned towards Public Administrations’ needs.
The development of river basin management plans under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and of flood risk management plans are elements of integrated river basin management. To establish an easy exchange of information with the Water Framework Directive, the information regarding the Action programme on Flood risk management is part of the WFD CIRCA.
An overview of flood related information available on CIRCA is included in this Thematic information sheet of Flood Risk Management!
If you are familiar with the tool, you can directly access
the public part of the CIRCA site. However, you may
want to know more about the following issues:
If you need any help regarding the use of the CIRCA tool,
there are comprehensive "help" functions integrated.
In addition, there is plenty of additional information on
the use of the CIRCA tool available such as user manuals and
"frequently asked questions" list under: http://forum.europa.europa.eu/Public/irc/ida/ircforum/home. |
