Incentive Water Pricing and Cost Recovery in the WFD

WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level – Elements for Linking EU Agricultural and Water Policies

Publication: Report
Citation: Interwies, Eduard; Thomas Dworak; Benjamin Görlach and Aaron Best 2006: Deliverable 13 – WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level – Final Paper about Incentive water pricing and cost recovery in the WFD – Elements for linking EU Agricultural and Water Policies. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin.

Interwies, Eduard; Thomas Dworak; Benjamin Görlach and Aaron Best 2006: Deliverable 13 – WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level – Final Paper about Incentive water pricing and cost recovery in the WFD – Elements for linking EU Agricultural and Water Policies. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin.

Water Framework Directive and Agricultural Linkages at the EU Level: State of Play

25 April 2006
Thomas Dworak

Presentation:Speech

Based on an initiative of the Grüne Liga e.V. a seminar with the title: On the way towards the "Good status"- Critical aspects of the WFD was held on 24 March 2006. Rainer Müssner from Ecologic gave a presentation about the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU and the Water Framework Directive. The main focus of Müssner's presentation was the linkages between these policy areas and options to create synergies.

Common Agricultural Policy and Water Framework Directive

24 March 2006
Dr. Rainer Müssner

Presentation:Speech

On occasion of the international workshop on "Current spatial planning and river basin management planning according to the EU Water Framework Directive" held in Stockholm on 13 and 14 February 2006, Nadine Herbke spoke to participants predominantly from Scandinavia and the Baltic area on "Collaboration between WFD implementation and spatial planning: Experiences from Schleswig-Holstein".

Collaboration between Water Framework Directive Implementation and Spatial Planning: Experiences from Schleswig Holstein

14 February 2006
Nadine Herbke

Publication:Report

Policy makers are increasingly in need of accurate and timely information in order to meet reporting requirements linked to environmental legislation. This paper explores the extent to which Earth Observation (EO) based services, addressed by the joint ESA and EC initiative "Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)", can contribute to meeting the special reporting requirements of the major European Union water policy, namely the Water Framework Directive (WFD).

Possible Contributions of ESA Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Initiative for the WFD Implementation

Year 2005

Project:FP 6

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) are two of the most influential European policies in the area of environmental issues. Within this sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project, Ecologic and the Warsaw Agricultural University (WAU) are analysing the legal and organisational interlinkages between both policies in order to elaborate future synergies while implementing, planning, financing and controlling the various requirements of the WFD and the CAP.

Water Framework Directive Meets Common Agricultural Policy

Opportunities for the future (CAP & WFD)

Apr 2005 - Jun 2006

Publication:Report

Herbke, Nadine; Thomas Dworak and Zbigniew M. Karaczun 2006: Deliverable 2.1 – WFD and Agriculture – Linkages at the EU Level. Analysis of the Policy and Legal Linkages between CAP and WFD. Ecologic/Warsaw Agricultural University, Berlin/Warsaw.

Analysis of the Policy and Legal Linkages between CAP and WFD

WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level

Year 2006

Publication:Report

Müssner, Rainer; Zbigniew Karaczun; Thomas Dworak and Katrina Mardsen 2006: Deliverable 12 – WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level – Final Report about Cross Compliance and the WFD. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin.

Cross Compliance and the WFD

WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level

Year 2006

Publication:Report

Dworak, Thomas; Nicole Kranz; Zbigniew Karaczun and Nadine Herbke 2006: Deliverable 14 – WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU level – Final Paper about Co-operation and participation at the interface of EU Agricultural and Water Policies. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin.

Co-operation and Participation at the Interface of EU Agricultural and Water Policies

WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level

Year 2006

Publication:Report

Herbke, Nadine; Zbigniew Karaczun; Ruta Landgrebe-Trinkunaite and Thomas Dworak 2006: Deliverable 15 - WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level – Beyond 2007: Further Research Needs at EU level. Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin.

Beyond 2007: Further Research Needs at EU Level

WFD and Agriculture Linkages at the EU Level

Year 2006

Language: English
Authorship: Eduard Interwies

Thomas Dworak

Benjamin Görlach

Aaron Best
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research (DG Research), International
Published by: Ecologic Institute, Germany
Year: 2006
Dimension: 55 pp.
Project: Water Framework Directive Meets Common Agricultural Policy
Project ID: 1966
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

Policy summary
1 Introduction
2 Water pricing in the WFD and its effects on agriculture
2.1 General Overview WFD
2.2 WFD provisions with an impact on water pricing
2.2.1 Programmes of measures (Art.11 WFD)
2.2.2 Incentive pricing (Art. 9 WFD)
2.2.3 Cost-recovery (Art. 9 WFD)
2.2.4 The polluter-pays-principle
2.3 Key Messages
3 How to move towards sustainable water pricing policies in the context of WFD implementation?
3.1 Introducing the key concepts of WFD water pricing
3.1.1 The different cost categories of relevance for incentive pricing and cost recovery
3.1.2 Interpreting the ”adequate contribution” of water uses to the cost recovery of water services
3.2 Main challenges for water pricing in the WFD
3.2.1 Improving the information base on agricultural water pricing
3.2.2 Lower water consumption through higher prices? The issue of elasticities
3.2.3 The importance of other policies for achieving the WFD objectives
3.3 Approaches to incentive pricing in the WFD
3.3.1 Revising agricultural water tariff schemes
3.3.2 Using environmental charges and taxes in agricultural water pricing
3.4 Key Messages
4 The current Common Agricultural Policy and its payments
4.1 Payments under the current CAP to farmers
4.2 Structuring current CAP payments to farmers in accordance to their link to environmental quality standards
4.3 The role of decoupling for water protection
4.4 Key Messages
5 Water Pricing under CAP and WFD - Key issues for further discussion
5.1 Linkages on incentives
5.2 Proportionality/acceptability of potential measures to increase cost recovery/incentive pricing
5.3 Linking payments CAP-WFD: compensation function
5.4 Key Messages
6 Summary and Conclusion
7 Bibliography
Annex: List of CAP payments to farmers and their link to water quality standards
Keywords: Agriculture

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