China-Europe Water Platform Status of Water Quality Co-Lead Programme Tuomas Valtonen Director of Unit, Technology Research Center, University of Turku, Finland European coordinator of CEWP Water Quality Co-Lead Programme Member of Board of Directors, European Technology Platform for Water WssTP 1 Presentation for expert mission co-financed by the European Environmental Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Facility (TAIEF), March 21, 2016, at Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
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China-Europe Water PlatformStatus of Water Quality Co-Lead Programme
Tuomas ValtonenDirector of Unit, Technology Research Center, University of Turku, Finland
European coordinator of CEWP Water Quality Co-Lead ProgrammeMember of Board of Directors, European Technology Platform for Water WssTP
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Presentation for expert mission co-financed by the European Environmental Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Facility (TAIEF), March 21, 2016, at Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.
China-Europe Water Platform
¢ The China-Europe Water Platform (CEWP) was launched at the 6th World Water Forum in Marseille, France, in March 2012, when a CEWP Joint Statement was signed between the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, represented by the Danish Minister of the Envi-ronment.
¢ The CEWP was built upon the EU-China Co-operation River Basin Management Program, which took place during 2007–2012.
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China-Europe Water Platform
¢ The overall objective of the CEWP is to promote policy dialogue, joint research and business development in the water sector between Peo-ple’s Republic of China and the EU and its Member States.
¢ It opens a new chapter in the cooperation between China and Europe based on mutual interest, benefit and funding, thus emphasising that it is a co-operation between equal partners.
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A New Era for CEWP from 2015
¢ In May 2015, Mr. Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China, together with high-level representatives from Aus-tria, Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden, signed the “Declaration for the CEWP” at the CEWP Annual High-Level Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.
¢ The declaration reaffirmed the commitment from all parties to work to-gether to find solutions for global water-related challenges.
¢ The United Kingdom also later joined as a signatory of the declaration.
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CEWP Work Programme 2015-17
¢ In May 2015, the new CEWP Work Programme for 2015-17 was also approved.
¢ In the Work Programme, four top-level Focus Areas (FAs) are defined:
¢ 1. Rural Water and Food Security
¢ 2. Water and Urbanisation
¢ 3. Water and Energy Security
¢ 4. Water Management and Ecological Security
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CEWP Co-Lead Programmes
¢ 1. Rural Water and Food Security
¢ Groundwater (Denmark – China)
¢ Irrigation (Spain – China)
¢ 2. Water and Urbanisation
¢ Integrated Urban Water Management (Denmark – China)
¢ Flood Risk Management & Dike Safety (Netherlands – China)
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CEWP Co-Lead Programmes
¢ 3. Water and Energy Security
¢ Water & Energy Nexus (Sweden, United Kingdom – China) ¢ Small Scale Hydropower (Austria – China)
¢ The European Union’s Policy Support Facility (PSF) aims at giving EU Member State governments practical support to identify, implement and evaluate reforms to enhance the quality of their public funding.
¢ It supports government officials from other countries to peer review the effectiveness of research and innovation policies and provides access to independent high level expertise and analysis.
¢ In 2015, CEWP Co-Leads have prepared PSF funding applications, and funding can be expected in Q3-Q4/2016 covering visits of Europe-an and Chinese experts, as well as formulation of expert reports.
Partnership Instrument Funding
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¢ In the past, the interaction of the EU with many countries around the world focused on development cooperation. The EU’s Partnership In-strument (PI) offers a new approach by focusing on policy cooperation.
¢ In particular, it allows the EU to establish a wider political dialogue with emerging partners, also supports the EU’s relations with more ad-vanced countries outside of the scope of bilateral development aid.
¢ In 2015, CEWP Co-Leads have prepared a broad PI funding applica-tion, and funding for each of the four Focus Areas can be expected from Q1/2017.
PI – Water mgmt and ecological security
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¢ Background studies in Focus Area (FA) on Water management and ecological security:
¢ Policy paper on elaboration of River Basin Management Plans with stakeholders’ participatory approach in China
¢ Vulnerability studies
¢ Study and policy paper on river restoration
¢ Study on evolution of standards for water quality
¢ Study on opportunities of transboundary cooperation for China in one of its international basins
PI – Water mgmt and ecological security
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¢ Case studies in FA on Water management and ecological security:
¢ Case study on the restoration of the Nanxi River
¢ Case study on water quality & restoration of Lake Taihu & Pyhäjärvi
¢ Case study on benchmarking and enhancing partnership between different economic sectors and public authorities
¢ Pilot project on Integrated Water Resources Management at basin level in one of the transprovincial basins of China
¢ Case study on valuation methods of payments for ecosystems ser-vices for pricing of compensation in the Xin’an river basin
CEWP Water Quality Co-Lead
¢ Finland is the European Coordinator of the CEWP Co-Lead Programme for Water Quality.
¢ In Europe, coordination of Co-Lead activities is managed by the Uni-versity of Turku, in collaboration with the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Finnish Environment Institute, Pyhäjärvi Institute, Aal-to University, Finnish Water Forum, and ELY Centre Southwest Finland.
¢ In China, coordination is managed by China Institute of Water Resourc-es and Hydropower Research, in collaboration with the Ministry of Wa-ter Resources of the People’s Republic of China.
