Nordic WFD Conference Presentations

Wednesday 19th of March 2014

Programme      

• Welcome to Oulu and Finland, Leena Tuuri, Director of the Urban and Environment Office of the Oulu Region
• Introduction to water management and protection in Finland, Hannele Nyroos, Ministry of the Environment in Finland
• Short presentations from other Nordic countries
  • Tor Simon Pedersen, Ministry of the Environment Norway,
  • Johan Kling, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
• Social Learning on WFD in Finland, Sweden, Scotland & Ireland, Micheál Ó Cinnéide, EPA, Ireland
• WFD implementation in the context of varying governance systems: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Austria and Scotland, Jan Erling Klausen, NIBR, Norway
• Implementing the key issues of EU blue Print on 2nd cycle and the Nordic relevance
  • Environmental flow and good potential, Jo H. Halleraker, Norway
  • PoM, agriculture and economics, Milla Mäenpää, Finland
  • Data sharing and information issues, Niklas Holmgren, Sweden
  • Ecostat, priority substances, Ansa Pilke, Finland
• Country presentations of the European WFD implementation
  • Finland, Antton Keto,
  • Norway, Line Fjellvær,
  • Sweden Juha Salonsaari and Johan Kling
• Lessons learned and experiences about WFD implementation in the Alpine convention, Veronika Koller-Kräimler, Austria
• Recommendations of the ecosystem services approach to take onboard on WFD implementation, Christina van Breugel, COWI, Denmark
• Restoring rivers for effective catchment management - Results from the REFORM-project, Jukka Aroviita, SYKE, Finland

Nordic WFD Conference Report

Working groups

A. Defining Chemical status and monitoring
B. Technical solutions and coherence
C. Programme of Measures
C1: Harmonizing PoM between Nordic countries - table of issues
C2: Implementation of measures in agriculture
C3: Implementation of measures in HMWB - measure library table