5.1.1 DIRECTIVE 2000/60/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.

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EU Guidance Documents on the Water Framework

Ecological Status:

• Overall Approach to the Classification of Ecological Status and Ecological Potential. November 2003.

Economics:

• Economics and the Environment. The Implementation Challenge of the Water Framework Directive Accompanying Documents to the Guidance.
• Accompanying Documents to the Guidance.
• Main text
• Policy Summary to the Guidance Document.

Guidance outcome:

• Guidance Document on Implementing the GIS Elements of the WFD.

Identification bodies:

• Horizontal guidance document on the application of the term “water body” in the context of the Water Framework Directive. 15 January 2003.

Identification Districts:

• Identification of River Basin Districts in Member States. Overview, criteria and current state of play. August 2002.

Intercalibration:

• Towards a guidance on establishement of the Intercalibration network and on the process of the Intercalibration exercise. December 2002.

Identification and Designation of Heavily Modified and Artificial Water Bodies:

• Guidance Document
• Policy summary to the HMWB & AWB guidance document
• Toolbox.

Monitoring:

Guidance on Monitoring for the Water Framework Directive. January 2003.

Participation Guidance

• Guidance on public participation in relation to the Water Framework Directive. Active Involvement, Consultation, and Public Access to Information.
• Annex I: Public Participation Techniques

Planning Process:

• Best practices in river basin planning. Guidance on the planning process.

Policy Summaries:

• Economics and the Environment – The implementation challenge of the Water Framework.
• Analysis of Pressures and Impacts.
• Identification and Designation of Heavily Modified and Artificial Water Bodies.
• Towards a guidance on the establishment of the intercalibration network and the process on the intercalibration.
• Monitoring under the Water Framework Directive.
• Implementing the Geographical Information System Elements (GIS) of the Water Framework.
• Rivers and Lakes – Typology, Reference Conditions and Classification Systems.
• Principles and communication of results of the first analysis under the Water Framework Directive.

Analysis of pressures and impacts:

• Guidance for the analysis of Pressures and Impacts In accordance with the Water Framework Directive.
• The key implementation requirement of the Water Framework Directive.
• Annex V Case studies.

Published Guidance Documents:

• Economics and the environment. The implementation challenge of the Water Framework Directive.
• Planning process.
• Public Participation in relation to the Water Framework Directive.
• Identification of Water Bodies.
• Analysis of Pressures and Impacts.
• Identification and Designation of Heavily Modified and Artificial Water Bodies.
• Transitional and Coastal Waters. Typology, Reference Conditions and Classification Systems.
• Towards a guidance on establishment of the intercalibration network and the process on the intercalibration exercise.
• River and lakes – Typology, reference conditions and classification systems.
• Monitoring under the Water Framework Directive.
• Implementing the Geographical Information. System Elements (GIS) of the Water Framework Directive.
• The EU Water Framework Directive: statistical aspects of the identification of groundwater pollution trends, and aggregation of monitoring results.

Reference conditions for inland surface waters

• Guidance on establishing reference conditions and ecological status class boundaries for inland surface waters

Statistical Groundwater:

• The EU Water Framework Directive: Statistical aspects of the identification of groundwater pollution trends, and aggregation of monitoring results.

Wetlands Horizontal Guidance:

• Horizontal Guidance Document on the Role of Wetlands in the Water Framework Directive.

Strategic Implementation Documents:

• Strategic Document (As agreed by the Water Directors under Swedish Presidency) May 2001.
• Carrying forward the Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive -Progress and Work Programme for 2003 and 2004.
• The Contribution of LIFE Projects to the Implementation of Water Policy in the EU.
• Screening methods for Water data Information in support of the implementation of the Water Framework .Directive.
• Sustainable management and quality of water.