Chapters

• Water Framework Directive Under Scrutiny
• PRELUDE
• Water Framework Directive: a paradigm shift
• A Complex Framework Directive
• Water Framework Directive : the five main elements
• I-Ambitious objectives & general obligations to enhance and to prevent deterioration of the status of bodies of water
• The ultimate objective
• Two General “distinct albeit intrinsically liked binding objectives” (Case C-461/1)
• Rigorous interpretation by the CJEU for determining compliance with the obligation of no-deterioration
• An obligation to enhance the status of bodies of water and of aquatic ecosystems
• II- Key specific obligations on Member States
• Management plans & Programmes of measures
• Programmes of measures
• Register of Protected areas (first register(s) by 2004)
• Pricing of water
• MS “shall ensure by 2010”
• III- Directions for water protection & combined approach to discharges
• IV- River basin district, multilevel governance, information and public participation
• Information, public participation and access to justice (1/4)
• Information, public participation and access to justice (2/4)
• Information, public participation and access to justice (3/4)
• Information, public participation and access to justice (4/4)
• V- Less stringent environmental objectives, exemptions and deadline extensions
• Less stringent requirements for specific bodies of water (article 4 §5)
• Temporary deterioration in the status of bodies of water
• Derogations under article 4§7 WFD: failure to achieve good status of water bodies (1/3)
• Derogations under article 4§7 WFD: failure to achieve good status of water bodies (2/3)
• Derogations under article 4§7 WFD: failure to achieve good status of water bodies (3/3)
• Deadlines postponement
• Report on the implementation of WFD - COM (2021) 970
• Report 9/2021 AEE “Drivers of and pressures arising from selected key water management challenges”
• EU Water Legislation and Judges: a key contribution