Legislation relavent for the Water Framework Directive

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Water Framework Directive

Directives

Additional Dangerous Substances Directive

Bathing Water Directive

Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds

Directive on Hazardous Substances (to be repealed)

Drinking Water Directive

Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Directive

Fish Life Directive (to be repealed)

Groundwater Directive (to be repealed)

Groundwater Protection against pollution under the WFD (Article 17) (proposal)

Habitat Directive

IPPC Directive

Nitrates Directive

Plant Protection Products Directive

Priority Substances under the Water Framework Directive (Article 16) (proposal)

Renewable energy: The Promotion of Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources

SEVESO (major Accidents) Directive

Sewage Sludge Directive

Shellfish Waters Directive (to be repealed)

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Directive

Surface Water Directive (to be repealed)

Urban Waste Water Directive

Communications

Aarhus Convention on Access to Information

ESDP - European Spatial Planning Perspective

European Action Programme on Flood Risk Management (proposal)

Helsinki Convention on the Protection of the Baltic Sea

ICZM - Integrated Coastal Zone Management

Pricing and Long-Term Management of Water

Priority Substances in the field of Water Policy

Towards a Strategy to Protect the Marine Environment

Decisions

Analysis of Water Quality Decision (to be repealed)

Exchange of Information Decision (to be repealed)

Integrated River Basin Management

+ EU Water Policy

+ Status of Surface Waters

+ Pressures and Impacts

Environmental Objectives

+ Management Measures

+ River Basin Management Planning

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