Title: Consultation on River Basin Planning Guidance Volume 2 
Resource Type: document --> guidance / decision support 
Country: United Kingdom 
Year: 2008 
Availability: February 2008 
Author 1/Producer: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
Other Authors/Producers: Welsh Assembly Government 
Author / Producer Type: Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body 
Publisher: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 
Publisher City: Nobel House 17 Smith Square London SW1P 3JR, UK 
Report / download web link (=direct link): http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/river-basin/consul ...  
Format (e.g. PDF): PDF 
Size: (e.g. 20mb) 800 
EUGRIS Keyword(s): Water resources and their management -->River basin management
Water resources and their management -->River basins
Water resources and their management -->Stresses, quality and ecological status
Water resources and their management -->Water resources and their management Overview
 
Short description: The guidance outlines the role of environmental quality standards in implementing the Water Framework Directive (WFD), explains the range of new standards that have been developed by the UK environment agencies, and considers the way in which the Directive’s costs and benefits should be balanced. This complements the first volume of guidance, which was published in September 2006 after similar consultation, and which covers the content of the plans. The WFD is a challenging Europe-wide plan which considers water not just in terms of individual rivers, lakes or estuaries, but acknowledges its inextricable relationship with ecosystems as a whole. A key consideration in implementing the Directive is whether measures will incur disproportionate cost and the Directive offers welcome flexibility on this point. The guidance focuses on the nine river basin districts in England and Wales, and one of the two cross-border river basin districts in England and Scotland, each of which is required to have a River Basin Management Plan (RBMP). 
Link to Organisation(s): Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
 
Link to News Items(s):   UK: Improving the water environment – second consultation on river basin planning
Submitted By: Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?      Last update: 28/02/2008

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