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)