WFD Guidance Documents
Guidance documents and technical reports have been produced
to assist stakeholders to implement the WFD. Guidance Documents
are intended to provide an overall methodological approach,
but these will need to be tailored to specific circumstances
of each EU Member State.
Below you will find the list of guidance documents which
have been published to date. Guidance documents number 1,
3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 have associated policy summaries that
give an overview of documents.
All these documents and others produced by the Common Implementation
Strategy process can be found on the WFD
CIRCA library.
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List of published CIS Guidance Documents
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No. 1. Economics and the Environment - The Implementation
Challenge of the Water Framework Directive
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No. 2. Identification of Water Bodies
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No. 3. Analysis of Pressures and Impacts
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No. 4. Identification and Designation of Heavily
Modified and Artificial Water Bodies
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No. 5. Transitional and Coastal Waters - Typology,
Reference Conditions and Classification Systems
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No. 6. Towards a Guidance on Establishment of
the Intercalibration Network and the Process on the Intercalibration
Exercise
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No. 7. Monitoring under the Water Framework Directive
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No. 8. Public Participation in Relation to the
Water Framework Directive
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No. 9. Implementing the Geographical Information
System Elements (GIS) of the Water Framework Directive
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No. 10. Rivers and Lakes - Typology, Reference
Conditions and Classification Systems
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No. 11. Planning Processes
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No. 12. The Role of Wetlands in the Water Framework
Directive
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No. 13. Overall Approach to the Classification
of Ecological Status and Ecological Potential
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No. 14. Guidance on the Intercalibration Process
(2004-2006)
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N° 15 - Groundwater Monitoring (WG C)
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N° 16 - Groundwater in Drinking Water Protected Areas
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N° 17 - Direct and indirect inputs in the light of the 2006/118/EC Directive
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N° 18 - Groundwater Status and Trend Assessment
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N° 19 - Surface water chemical monitoring.pdf
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N° 20 - Exemptions to the environmental objectives
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N° 21 - Guidance for reprting under the WFD
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N° 22 - Updated WISE GIS guidance (nov 2008)
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N° 23 – Eutrophication Assessment in the Context of European Water Policies
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N° 24 - River Basin Management in a changing climate
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N° 25 - Chemical Monitoring of Sediment and Biota
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N° 26 - Risk Assessment and the Use of Conceptual Models for Groundwater
List of technical reports
- Technical Report 1. The EU Water Framework
Directive: Statistical aspects of the identification of
groundwater pollution trends and aggregation of monitoring
results.
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