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Review of the current status of the
implementation of DM plans and measures
within RBMP according to EU WFD
Activity 1.2
Elena Fatulova 2nd IDMP CEE Workshop Ljubljana, 8 – 9 April 2014
Partners & Outputs
• Aim of Act. 1.2 – to gather information from participating CEE countries on current status of development and implementation of Drought Management Plans
• 10 CEE countries involved in the activity (BL, CZ, HU, LT, MO, PL, RO, SK, SLO, UA)
• Partners – national GWPs and experts from individual countries
• Final output – Report summarizing the national information provided through questionnaires
• First phase – information gathering: end of October 2013 - questionnaire developed and
distributed to all national contact persons 31 December 2013 – questionnaires completed and
returned by all involved countries • Second phase – Final Report – summary of information: 1 March - draft of the Report sent for comments 15 March – comments collected 31 March 2014 – final Report completed in
accordance with original plan
Progress Report
Approach - principles
● EU drought policy developed within Common Strategy for Implementation of Water Framework Directive – based on drought risk management approach
● Drought Management Plan - the main instrument for enforcement of drought risk management strategy
● Consistency with EU WFD – Drought Management Plan (not compulsory document!) a part of River Basin Management plans
Basic documents
• Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts in the European Union (COM (2007)414 final, July 2007)
• A Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources COM (2012) 673 final
• Communication Report on the Review of the water scarcity & droughts policy in the EU Accompanying the document (COM(2012) 672 final, Commission staff working document)
• Drought Management Plan Report Including Agricultural, Drought Indicators and Climate Change (Report 2007)
SCOPE
• Review of DMP and other associated plans
• Relevance of the water scarcity and drought issues
• Monitoring systems
• Indicator system and early warning system
• Drought risk maps
• Mitigation measures
• Organizational framework to deal with drought
• Public participation (according to WFD)
Table 2: Review of the current status of DMP development
DMP items BG CZ HU LT MO PL RO SK SLO UA
DMP developed X* X* X
DMP included in RBMP X* X
DMP content:
Indicators and thresholds establishing severity levels of the drought stages X X X
Drought situation assessment (frequency, intensity X X X X X X
Program of measures for preventing and mitigating drought
in each drought stage:
Preventive or strategic measures (normal status) X X X* X X X
Operational measures applied during pre-alert and alert stages X X X
Organizational measures X
Restoration measures
Early warning system developed: X X X X X X* X X
Air temperature X X X X X X
Precipitation X X X X X X
Snow reserve X
River flow X X X X X
Stored surface reservoir volume X X X
Aquifer water level X X X
Soil moisture content X X
Drought stages classified:
Normal status X X X*
Pre-alert status X X
Alert status X
Emergency or extreme status X X
Other classification system X
Organizational framework for the production of
DMP/WRMP and its updating X X X
Conclusions
• Actual situation in DMP development within the region is not satisfactory
• There are big differences among involved countries.
• The main shortcomings have been found in all key elements of the Drought Management Plan:
indicators and thresholds establishing different drought stages
measures to be taken in each drought phase
organizational framework to deal with drought
Conclusions
• Causes of water scarcity and drought are not clearly distinguished
• Meteorological and hydrological monitoring programmes present a good basis for development of Drought Management Plans
• Impact drought monitoring programmes (impact on society, agriculture, industry, environment) should be developed or reviewed, completed and interlinked with the meteorological monitoring
Recommendations • Increase awareness on relevance of drought issues
directed to the state administration
• Improvement of methodologies for DMP development mainly on the key elements of DMP (indicators and thresholds, measures, organizational structure
• The drought national dialogues should be focused on organizational arrangements
• Integration of nature protection issues into drought management system
• Regional drought programmes for the Danube Strategy
• activity 1.2 is completed in accordance with a plan
• final Report (summary text and Annex II) – one of the source for Act. 2.1 Guidelines for Drought Management Plans and Act. 2.2 – national consultations
• all countries are/will be invited to provide detailed but short information on key elements of DMP:
drought indicator system (meteorological, hydrological, agricultural) including drought impact indicators
Plans
Plans - continuation thresholds for drought stages (normal, pre-alert,
alert, emergency)
drought early warning system
• National consultation dialogues – emphasis on:
key elements of DMP – national experiences – Annex of the Guidelines
development of organizational structure for drought management (all partners and sector identified in the questionnaire) – competent authority, working group (example provided in Slovak Study Report)