The role played by the french water agencies

Justifying time and objectives exemptions in the context of the WFD implementation Bucharest, 12 – 13 May 2008

Arnaud Courtecuisse – Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie

Content of the presentation

1. French Water Agencies and Water

financial Scheme

2. The role of the Water Agencies for the

implementation of the WFD : illustrations

from Loire-Bretagne and Artois-Picardie

River Basin

3. Transboundary aspects

• Artois Picardie :

• 20 000 Km2

• 4 700 000 inhabitants

• Rhin Meuse :

• 32 700 Km2

• 4 000 000 inhabitants

• Seine Normandie :

• 100 000 Km2

• 17 000 000 inhabitants

• Loire Bretagne :

• 155 000 Km2

• 11 500 000 inhabitants

• Adour Garonne :

• 116 000 km2

• 6 500 000 inhabitants

• Rhône Méditerranée Corse

• 130 000 Km2

• 14 000 000 inhabitants

187 M€

131 M€

895 M€

213 M€

483 M€

435 M€

Budget (one year)

French water agencies and water financial scheme

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Households

Agriculture

Industry

Fees collected by the water agency are used to subsidise

water protection investment and operating costs

French water agencies and water financial scheme

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

Key water management issues

Description of Key measures

Who is responsible for the implementation of the measures (local authorities, industry, agriculture)

Type of measures (law, incentive, good practice)

Costs

Good status targeted for 2015, 2021 or 2027

Extract from the programme of measures of Loire-Bretagne’ POM

Draft #2 of the Programme of measures (cost in million euros)

for Artois-Picardie River Basin

Total

Basic measures 700

Supplementary

measures4 000

4,7 billions of € to achieve

the GES

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

Urban sanitation (WWTP and

Sewerage network)

3 800 M €

Diffuse pollution

525 M €Drinkable water

18 M €

River management and hydromorphology

144 M €

Industry

178 M €

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

Total cost of PoM / GDP

Indicators Data Objectives

Cost of PoM • inv + op cost of measures

per type (extracted from

national catalogue) and at

Water body level

Assess PoM cost per type of

measures and at each scale

level (from Water body to

basin)

PoM/GDP •GDP of Artois-Picardie

(current + past value),

forecasts of future values

• express measures in annual

cost (inv + op) to be expensed

Express the weight of the

PoM regarding the GDP of

Artois-Picardie River basin in

order to assess the effort to be

done in the coming years

compared to what have been

done in the past

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

Evolution (1967 -2012) of the economic weight of the works financed by the Water Agency Artois -Picardie compared to the Basin’s GDP

Basic+Suplementary

measures

Basic measures

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

3,35

2,88

3,29

3,91

3,24

2,49

4,52 4,434,57

5,87

4,84

3,523,543,68

3,53

4,454,20

2,70

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Aa - yser -

Audomarois

Canche - Authie -

Boulonnais

Lys - Deule -

Marque

Sambre Scarpe-Escaut-

Sensée

Somme

Prix de l'eau 2006

Prix 2015 - € constant 2006

Prix 2015

avec aménagement Objectifs

Current price

GES in 2015

Time derogation

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

2006 2008

Public + local authorities

consultation on RBMP and

PoM projects

2009

Setting objectives,taking into

account feasability of

measures

Monitoring reporting

(march 2007)

2007

Concertation:

stakeholders and

state representatives

Endorsement of

RBMP and PoM

projects

The transboundary aspects

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

The role of the water agencies in the WFD’s implementation

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