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Internationally Coordinated Management Plan 2015 for the International River Basin District of the Rhine Internationally Coordinated Management Plan 2015 for the International River Basin District of the Rhine (Part A = Overriding Part) December 2015 Imprint Joint report of The Republic of Italy, The Principality of Liechtenstein, The Federal Republic of Austria, The Federal Republic of Germany, The Republic of France, The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, The Kingdom of Belgium, The Kingdom of the Netherlands With the cooperation of the Swiss Confederation Data sources Competent Authorities in the Rhine river basin district Coordination Rhine Coordination Committee in cooperation with the International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) Drafting of maps Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany Publisher: International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine (ICPR) Kaiserin-Augusta-Anlagen 15, D 56068 Koblenz P.O. box 20 02 53, D 56002 Koblenz Telephone +49-(0)261-94252-0, Fax +49-(0)261-94252-52 Email: [email protected] www.iksr.org Translation: Karin Wehner ISBN 978-3-941994-72-0 © IKSR-CIPR-ICBR 2015 IKSR CIPR ICBR Bewirtschaftungsplan 2015 IFGE Rhein Contents Introduction .................................................................................. 6 1. General description .............................................................. 8 1.1 Surface water bodies in the IRBD Rhine ................................................. 11 1.2 Groundwater ...................................................................................... 12 2. Human activities and stresses ........................................... 13 2.1 Hydromorphological alterations ............................................................. 13 2.2 Chemical pollution from diffuse and point sources ............................. 16 2.2.1 General remarks ................................................................... 17 2.2.2 Relevant discharges into surface water bodies .......................... 19 2.2.3 Relevant discharges into groundwater ..................................... 26 2.3 Other impacts of human activities on the state of the waters .................... 26 2.4 Effects of climate change - increased stress ............................................ 29 3. Register of protection areas ............................................... 32 4. Surveillance networks and results of surveillance programmes ...................................................................... 34 4.1 Surface waters ............................................................................. 34 4.1.1 Ecological status / ecological potential ..................................... 34 4.1.2 Chemical status .................................................................... 59 4.2 Groundwater ...................................................................................... 61 4.2.1 Quantitative groundwater status ............................................. 62 4.2.2 Chemical groundwater status ................................................. 63 5. Environmental objectives and adjustments ....................... 66 5.1 Environmental objectives for surface water bodies ............................ 66 5.1.1 Ecological status / ecological potential ..................................... 67 5.1.2 Chemical status .................................................................... 71 5.2 Groundwater ...................................................................................... 72 5.3 Protection areas .................................................................................. 73 5.4 Adapting environmental objectives for surface waters and groundwater, reasons ....................................................................................... 74 5.4.1 Extension of deadlines........................................................... 74 5.4.2 Determination of less stringent objectives................................ 76 5.4.3 Exceptional status deterioration .............................................. 77 6. Economic analysis .............................................................. 78 6.1 Economic importance of water use ........................................................ 78 3 IKSR CIPR ICBR Bewirtschaftungsplan 2015 IFGE Rhein 6.2 Baseline Scenario ................................................................................ 82 7. Summary of the programmes of measures ........................ 84 7.1 Summary of measures to solve the major management issues in the international Rhine river basin district ............................................. 84 7.1.1 Restoration of biological river continuity, increase of habitat diversity .............................................................................. 84 7.1.2 Reduction of diffuse inputs impacting surface water and groundwater (nutrients, pesticides, metals, noxious substances from historic pollution and others) and further reduction of pollution of industrial and municipal origin ............................. 102 7.1.3 Harmonisation of water uses (navigation, energy production, flood protection, space-relevant uses and others) with environmental objectives .......................................................................... 110 7.2 Summary of measures according to Annex VII A, No. 7 WFD ............ 111 7.2.1 Implementation of EU regulations on water protection ............ 111 7.2.2 Recovery of costs for water use ............................................ 111 7.2.3 Water bodies for drinking water abstraction ........................... 117 7.2.4 Water abstraction or impoundment ....................................... 118 7.2.5 Point sources and other activities impacting the status of waters ............................................................................... 118 7.2.6 Direct discharges into groundwater ....................................... 118 7.2.7 Priority substances ............................................................. 118 7.2.8 Accidental pollution ............................................................. 118 7.2.9 Additional measures for water bodies which will presumably not achieve the objectives set out in WFD Article 4 ....................... 121 7.2.10 Additional measures .......................................................... 121 7.3 Pollution of the marine environment and connection between the WFD and the MSD .................................................................................... 121 7.3.1 Pollution of the marine environment ..................................... 121 7.3.2 Connection between the WFD and the MSD ............................ 121 7.4 Connection between the WFD, FD and other EU directives ...................... 123 8. Detailed list of programmes and management plans ....... 124 9. Information of the public and public consultations as well as their results ..................................................................... 125 10. List of competent authorities according to Annex I WFD . 126 11. Contact addresses and procedures for obtaining background documents ....................................................................... 126 Results and outlook ................................................................... 127 4 IKSR CIPR ICBR Bewirtschaftungsplan 2015 IFGE Rhein Appendices Annex 1: Ecological assessment at the monitoring stations of the surveillance monitoring programme according to WFD Annex 2: Results of the evaluation at monitoring stations of the surveillance monitoring programme of physico-chemical parameters and of substances relevant for the Rhine according to WFD Annex 3: Environmental quality standards for the Rhine (EQS Rhine) – scientific status 2007 – for substances relevant for the Rhine according to CC 17-03 rev. 09/10 October 2003 Annex 4: Environmental quality standards for priority substances and certain other pollutants Annex 5: Classification results at the monitoring stations of the “Chemistry” surveillance monitoring programme according to WFD Annex 6: Groundwater quality standards and threshold values Annex 7: Master Plan Migratory Fish Rhine - hydromorphological measures implemented and planned Annex 8: List of non-governmental organisations with observer status in the ICPR Annex 9: List of competent authorities for river management in the IRBD Rhine according to WFD, Article 3, Par. 8 (Annex I) Maps (separate files) Survey of maps Map Title no. K 1 Topography and soil cover K 2 Areas of operation K 3 Surface waters – location and limits of water bodies K 4 Surface water bodies: types of water bodies K 5 Groundwater bodies K 6 Categories of waters (natural, artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies K 7 Large transverse structures: Upstream migration: Drop ≥ 2 m K 8 Large transverse structures: Downstream migration: Drop ≥ 2 m K 9 Abstraction of water for human consumption K 10 Flora-Fauna-Habitat (FFH) areas NATURA 2000 depending on water K 11 Bird protection areas depending on water – NATURA 2000 K 12 Surveillance monitoring network biology (surface water bodies) K 13 Phytoplankton K 14 Phytobenthos / macrophytes (including sea weed and common salt marsh grass) K 15 Macrozoobenthos K 16 Fish fauna K 17 Ecological status / ecological potential of surface waters - total K 18 Surveillance monitoring network ‘chemistry’ (surface water bodies) K 19 Chemical status of surface water bodies K 20 Chemical status of surface water bodies - classification without ubiquitous substances K 21 Groundwater – Monitoring network Quantity K 22 Groundwater – quantitative status K 23 Groundwater - Surveillance monitoring network Chemistry K 24 Groundwater
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