Seminar on achieving sustainable water management

by the European Environmental Bureau

22 February 2008, Brussels, Belgium

Agenda

09:30

Welcome and opening

Pieter de Pous, EEB

1. Session: WFD: State of Implementation

10:00

Commission implementation work plus feedback from participants

Jorge Rodriguez Romero, DG Environment

11:30

Coffee Break

11:45

Preliminary results of NGO assessment on Significant Water Management Issue Consultation – discussion

Stefan Scheuer, Consultant

13:00

Lunch

2. Session: Impacts of Climate Change and WFD planning

14:00

Preparing an EU adaptation strategy

Marco Gasparinetti, DG Environment

14:45

‘Storing at the source’; implications for WFD PoM

Alphons van Winden, Bureau Stroming,

16:00

Coffee Break

3. Session: Impacts of Climate Change: linking WFD and Floods

16:15

Implementation of the Floods Directive

Maria Braettemark, DG Env

17:00

Conclusions and next steps for NGO’s

19:30

Dinner at