First cycle River Basin Management Plans under our control?
CCB • September 7, 2009
The European Community has faced the important challenges to recover the good status of water bodies by 2015, as required by the Water Framework Directive. Water in rivers, estuaries and coasts will hopefully improve under measures set up in the River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) drawn up for river basin districts across Europe.
Read the article by CCB Water Policy Officer Anna Smolka, on her experience from the RBMP planning process.

We support the Ocean Act objectives for improving coherence, coordination and effectiveness of EU ocean governance. However, we emphasize that the Act must deliver truly ecosystem-based management and that reaching Good Environmental Status (GES), as defined in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), should be established as a cornerstone of the Act.

