This conference will be organized around main and current topics on the Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation in the River Basin Districts, in particular:
• compatibility between WFD and infrastructures (hydropower, protection against erosion and floods, inland waterways, etc.)
• the taking into account of quantitative problems (droughts, water sharing, water transfers and reservoirs, specificities of the Mediterranean climate, etc.)
• monitoring networks and reporting, comparisons between water bodies and countries, inter-calibration
• preparation of programmes of measures, economic studies and financing.
The conference will pay special attention to the characteristics of hydrological and ecological regions and water bodies in European mountains, basin heads, and to the specific measures that should be considered for them to achieve good ecological status in 2015.