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Competent authorities responsibilityWFD in Sweden – achieve Good water status – or something similar....

Decisions in the water district about Water Quality Standards for waterbodies, River Basin Management Plan, Programme of measures, Monitoring programme – Public participation, coordination district / national

HMWB and exemptions –environmental and economic aspects

WFD in Sweden

National and inter-national River Basindistricts

Competent authorities located at the County Administrative Boards in:

Norrbottens län

Västernorrlands län

Västmanlands län

Kalmar län

Västra Götalands län

5 River basin districtsWFD in Sweden

Bothnian Bay River Basin district

• Area 147 600 km2

• 490 000 inh• International RBD• 2 counties• 28 municipalities• 30 major river basins• 42 352 lakes• ~5000 waterbodies ?

Bothnian Sea River Basin district

• Area 141 600 km2

• 920 000 inh• International RBD• 7 counties• 52 municipalities• > 30 000 surface waters• 13 major river basins• ~16 000 (water) bodies ?

North Baltic River Basin district

• Area 36 900 km2

• 2 950 000 inh• 7 Counties• 76 Municipalities• 13 Major sub-basins• 4060 Lakes• 15 water organizations• ~1500 waterbodies

South Baltic River Basin district

• Area 54 400 km2

• 2 260 000 inh• 10 counties• 95 municipalities• 30 Major sub-basins• > 4000 lakes• 24 water organizations• ~1700 waterbodies

Skagerack and Kattegatt River Basin district

• Area 69 500 km2• 2 430 000 inh• International RBD• 9 counties• 113 municipalities• 31 water organizations• ~2700 waterbodies

Swedish Water organizationParliament & Government

Regional - County adm. board 21

Local - Municipalities 290

National - SEPA & SGU

Water associations, Landowners, Water right owners, NGO…..

Laws & EconomyEnviron. Quality Objectives

Guidance

Operative, public part., authority

Authority - environ. & planning

Civil rights & responsibility

Decisions EO & RBMPRegional – CA 5

Swedish ”water laws” and authorityForestryact

Environmental Code

Plan & buildingact

Road act

Water associations, Landowners, Water right owners, NGO…..

Water & sewageact

Railwayact

Courts Municipalities

Forestry board Road Adm.

County Adm. boards

SEPA

Railway Adm.

Government

Fishingact

Fishing board

Civil Protectionact

Rescue agencyPlanningboard

Agricultureboard

Swedish Water organizationParliament & Government

County adm. board

Local - Municipalities 290

National - SEPA & SGU

Companies, Water associations, Landowners, Water right owners…..

National Environ. Quality Objectives

Laws

Environmental Code et al

Economy

Comp. Author.

EU

Water Directive

Nat. Agencies.

Water district and managementCompetent authority

•Coordinate activities in the district

•Prescribe Environmental Quality Standards, Programme of measuresand River Basin Management Plan

County Administrative Boards

•Responsibel for establishment of work-groups within sub-basins,

•Proposals for Environmental Quality Standards, Programme of measures and River Basin Management Plan, monitoring programme, information

The Competent Authority• The Delegation for the Competentauthority, appointed by the government• The county governor is the Chairman• Decides the environmental qualitystandards, programme of measuresand the river basin management plan• Meets about four times a year• Consists of experts from the counties• One district - one CompetentAuthority

Mats Svegfors Chairman, CAB VästmanlandGeorgia Destouni Stockholm UniversityChrister Segerström County Adm. Board UppsalaLars Östring County Adm. Board ÖrebroAnders Jansson County Adm. Board SödermanlandElse-Marie Mejersjö National Agriculture AgencyCarina Färm Water and Energy Company, VästeråsElisabeth Björk Norrtälje municipalityInger Gauffin Carlsson Enköpings municipalityRoland Dehlin Nynäshamns municipality

Water DelegationNorth Baltic River Basin district

OfficeLennart Sorby, Jenny Caruso, Therese Lager, Martin Larsson, Erik Lundborg, Malin Pettersson, Jennie Tjernell, Sven-Erik Åkerman

Water Framework Directive

5 Chap Environmental Code

Ordinance Water management

SEPA o SGU InstructionsMapping, quality standards,

monitoring, management plan, programme of measures, reporting

Competent Authority

Mapping and Riskanalyses

Pressure analyses

Economic analyses

Bad or moderate water status

Operative monitoring

programme of measures

God water status

Surveillance monitoring

-Time Exemptions - Special water bodies- New activity- Deterioration (4:9, 4:10, 4:11, 4:12)

Water management

River Basin Management plan incl EQS and programme of measures

- Heavy modified waters- Artificial waters (4:3 o 4:4)

WFD – in action!?Environmental Quality StandardsProgramme of measures

Environmentalcode

Planning & Building act

Infrastructure acts

Water & sewage actFishing act

River Basin Management Plan –process & products

1. Characteristics – 2004, 2007

2. Environmentalobjectives –environmental qualitystandards – 2008, 2009

3. Programme of measures –2008, 2009

4. Monitoring - 2006

5. River BasinManagement Plan& Reporting -

2008, 2009

River Basin Management plan2006 20102008

Public hearing

River Basin Management plan incl EQS

2009

Programme of Measures Public hearing

Decision

Decision

Mapping & analyses

2007

Important water issues

Monitoring prog

Workprogramme

Public hearing

SamrådWP

MPIWI

M&A

RBMP RBMP

PoM PoM

www.viss.lst.se

Status assessment• All waterbodies shall be assessed• Guiding principles produced by the Swedish EPA• Finished during 2007• The county administrations assess the waters based on monitoring.• Expert judgements are important sincemeasurements are insufficient or not available.• The assessments are stored in the database VISS (www.viss.lst.se )

Pressure analysis• To propose measures we need to knowthe anthropogenic pressure now and in the future• Survey the society need of water and anthropogenic pressure on the water quality• The pressure analysis will be availablein VISS• Stakeholders from industries, agriculture, forestry and NGOs are important partners in these analysis

Ecological status

Ground water Chemical status

Do we reach

Good water status 2015 ?

No! No!

At risk surface waters

2015

At risk

Ground waters2015

Monitoring programmes•All swedish monitoring stations and monitorings programmes in water are now available in ONE database – VISS.• Data is collected from countyadministrative boards, municipalites, river basin organisations, national institutions and others.• A review ot the monitoring programmesaccording to WFD must be done by 2009

Monitoring programmesÖvervakningsprogram för ytvatten, grundvatten och skyddade områdeni Norra Östersjöns vattendistrikt

•National•Regional•Local

Programme of measures

Coordinatedbetween water districts

River Basin Management Plan

Work Programme

Important issues

River Basin Management Plan

Mainly according to WFD –coordinated between water

districts

Public participation –organisational structure

Comp. authority

County AdmBoard

Water corporation

Group of Reference

Group of Reference

Work group Work groupWork group Work group

Districtlevel

Sub districtlevel

Locallevel

Public hearing

County Administrative Boards

Comp. authorities

Municipalities

Water associations

VISS

Webb GIS

Central databases

SEPA

Public, NGO

Public Participation

WISE

Who should pay?• Many measures allready started:

aquatic liming, decontamination of soils, restoration, recreating wetlands

• According to WFD – Polluter PaysPrinciple – but…

• Who is the Polluter?• Who are the Users?• 2010 should a pricing policy be

available – the government responsible

WFD in Sweden

”Money, money, money...”

Based on present organization and their present responsibilities for water issues, i e no full compensation for SEPA, SGU, SMHI or CAB/CA.

2004: 25 Mkr2005: 50 Mkr2006: 60 Mkr2007: 90 Mkr2008: 148 Mkr

! Mainly extended administration, characterization, publicparticipation. Monitoring, PoM needs more ....??

www.vattenmyndigheterna.se

www.vattenportalen.sewww.viss.lst.se

www.gis.lst.se/vattenkartan

WFD in Sweden

WFD in Sweden Status of characterisation and links

Niklas HolmgrenNordic workshop on WFD 2008-05-05

Ecological status VISS 2008-04-27

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Lakes in the South Baltic Water District – quality elements

137 not classified yet

At water body level – example report lakes

Main pressures and impacts

• Agriculture – eutrophication and toxicsubstances

• Infrastructure – eutrophication and toxicsubstances

• Hydromorphology - ???• Point sources – legislation• Acidification - established

Useful links

• Official site www.vattenmyndigheterna.se• Water Information System Sweden

www.viss.lst.se• The Water Map www.vattenkartan.se• Help site for Water Information System

Sweden www.visshjalp.se• Water portal – www.vattenportalen.se