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“Regional Environmental Network for Accession”
Ref: EuropeAid/128906/C/SER/Multi
6. WFD derogations and public
participation, as well as stakeholder
involvement. Third Annual meeting.
Neretva river
basin
17-19 October 2012, Mostar
(BiH)or Zagreb (Croatia)
Ms. Dragana Milovanović (Serbia) commented that in addition to national presentations it would be
very useful to have regional cross border cooperation activities presented in the future trainings as well.
For example, on March 2012 Danube River Basin Management Plan will be completed and during the
next meeting presentation about it could be made.
Mr. Stephan von Keitz supported this idea. RENA countries might have problems which can be
specific and different from the ones in the EU Member States, so presentation of such kind of joint
activities could be very helpful. It would be also very useful and interesting to compare methodologies
applied for the development of RBMPs. It is not correct to think that EU Member States have all the
knowledge and accession countries may just copy the activities already performed. Mr. Von Keitz
stressed that all countries should sit together and collect good ideas. There is no one who knows all the
necessary topics related to the WFD implementation, so RENA meetings are an excellent opportunity
for all participants to work jointly.
Ms. Dunja Barisic (Croatia) noted that all Water Management sub- group workshops were very useful
and the third one was the best. Participants were very active. She also stressed that the knowledge gained
during the workshop was very useful for practical implementation as there were quite many problems
with these issues in her own institution. She expressed her wish to have more emphasis on the WFD
related economic analysis.
Ms. Semėnienė promised to the participants that in the future topics on economic issues will be
presented during morning sessions, as these topics are in most cases new to participants and thus require
good concentration.
She asked participants to express their particular needs and wishes regarding the next 4 th training
workshop.
Ms. Ljupka Dimovska Zajkov (Macedonia) wishes to have presentation on MIKE SHE model in
order to learn and to have some exercises with it. It would be useful to receive information what data is
needed for modelling and to decide which model to use.
Mr. Stephan von Keitz noted that modelling issue is very ambitious, though every country should go
through this process. During training session it would be fair enough to have only ecological assessment
related discussions and to leave chemical assessment out. Chemical status will be touched anyway, as it is
overlapping with ecological status and that would be already quite challenging. At the end of the day we
will know how the system basically works and could be applied, for example for Sava RB. Mr. Stephan
von Keitz expressed his opinion stating that no model could substitute monitoring. Modelling can
forecast how execution of measures would work and affect ecological status. Mr. Stephan von Keitz
expressed his doubt whether it would be efficient to go into details of specific modelling during the
coming training.
Mr. Simonas Valatka asked participants what would be the focus and task for the modelling. The more
sophisticated model you have the more sophisticated data is needed. Usually lack of reliable data is the
main problem. Expert proposed to focus on monitoring issues and how to obtain more reliable data.
Ms. Semėnienė invited participants to send their specific ideas for the next 4 th training within two
weeks so that the programme could be accordingly adjusted. She invited participants also to comment on
the content of 5 th and 6 th training. The latter is planned together with the third Annual Meeting.
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