Transcript Blueprint - Aqua Publica

Aqua Publica Europea
04 December 2014
Outlook from the European Commission on the
implementation of Art. 9 WFD: state of art and
future actions
Lukasz Latala
DG ENV C1, Water
European Commission
WFD, Art 9 - Water pricing
• principle of recovery of the costs of water services,
including environmental and resource costs,
• polluter pays principle
• provision of adequate incentives for users to use water
resources efficiently
• adequate contribution of the different water uses to the
recovery of the costs of water services (The ruling of 11
September 2014 on water services case)
https://circabc.europa.eu/sd/a/6d359e2f-e215-46d3-988116b264dd854a/4%20-%20LTT%20C%20525%20DE%20services.doc
• Take account of social, environmental and economic
effects of the recovery as well as the geographic and
climatic conditions
Water pricing implementation
• pricing schemes in Europe often fail to combine
the objectives of efficiency (marginal social cost
pricing), fairness (polluter/user pays principle,
removal of harmful subsidies) and do not allow a
sustainable degree of cost recovery for the
financing of the measures
• (differences in agriculture, households and
industry)
• Lack of fulfilled preconditions to incentive pricing:
metering, limitation of illegal abstraction
• Lack of transparency
How COM challenge the
implementation of Art 9
• The 3rd Water Framework Directive
Implementation report – MS Annexes
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/participat
ion/map_mc/map.htm
• Bilateral meetings – has progress been made?
• Possible legal action
How COM challenge the
implementation of Art 9
• EAC for TO6 for CF and ERDF (households,
industry)
- transparent economic analysis,
- cost recovery and incentive pricing
• EAC for RD priority 5(a) water efficiency
measures in agriculture (EARDF)
- cost recovery and incentive pricing
• CIS guidance on ERC assessment
Regulatory instruments
• EU Ecolabel criteria
• Taps and showers; toilets and urinals - published
in 2013
• EU GPP (green public procurement) criteria
• Taps and showers; toilets and urinals - published
in 2013
• Ecodesign
• Taps and showers - preparatory study is on-going
• Toilets and urinals - preparatory study is put on
hold to evaluate take-up and impacts of recently
adopted Ecolabel criteria
Related policies
• fostering metering take up through the enhanced use of
GMES (Global Monitoring for the Environment and
Security) mapping to support Member States in monitoring
water abstraction
• Work on water accounts, WEI+, environmental flows –
tools to use economic tools (licencing, water rights…)
• Policy document on sustainable level of leakage (SELL)
• European Innovation Partnership in Water
• Financing studies to facilitate uptake of economic
instruments – EPI Water project: EPI-WATER Guidance
on the design and development of EPI in EU water policy
http://www.feem-project.net/epiwater/
Thank you
Lukasz Latala
DG ENV C1, Water
European Commission