ILYANA TODOROVA, Water Director

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1 ILYANA TODOROVA, Water Director

2 MAIN CHALLENGES Achieving the objectives: significant resources and new approaches are needed Mobilization of many different authorities and stakeholders for the implementation of measures and improving the coordination Ensuring needed funds for implementation of Program of measures Addressing the gaps in status assessment - Expanding the monitoring networks and programs, improving the confidence of the status assessment Ensuring necessity tools, equipments and methods for analysis of new priority substanses Integrated implementation of the related to water other sector policies: Biodiversity Protection, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture & Aquaculture, Drinking Water, Bath water, ext. Encourage and increase stakeholders involvement in planning process and public participation

3 Integrating policies: Biodiversity Protection Water Management Renewable Energy Example: Project ANCHOR: Assessment of combined impacts of hydroelectric power plants on ecosystems and ecological status of rivers Main objectives: Elaboration of the Methodology for determination of river sections according to their eligibility for construction of hydropower plants; Evaluation of river sections according to eligibility for building new hydropower plants; Monitoring of pilot river sections for assessment of pressure and impact by hydropower plants; Legal assessment on the application of the methodology.

4 Integrating policies: Biodiversity Protection Water Management Renewable Energy Project ANCHOR The results: Applied Methodology for determination of river sections according to their eligibility for construction of hydropower plants Degree of sensitivity of all criteria A map with river sections determined to be appropriate, medium-appropriate and inappropriate for building hydroelectric power plants The results are part of the second RBMP!

5 Project FISHFARMING: Integrating policies: Water Management Aquaculture Main objective: Improvement of the methodologies for effective management of aquaculture activities in order to achieve good ecological status / potential of water bodies, including: Better assessment of pressures and impacts on water bodies with fish farming activities; Development of Methodology for assessment of the ecological capacity of reservoirs for fish production in cages (ECRfish); Providing effective aquaculture technologies limiting the negative impact on water bodies; Propose conservation measures for rare bird species in NATURA 2000 areas where fish farming is carried out; Updating the RBMP PoM to reduce the impact by freshwater fish farming.

6 Integrating policies: Water Management Aquaculture Project FISHFARMING: Results Implemented program for investigative monitoring in water bodies with fish farming activities New methodologies to assess diffuse pressure and impacts in water bodies with fish farming activities Proposed innovative fish farming methodologies and technologies Updated program of measures in 2nd RBMP of East Aegean River Basin District

7 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS Consultation with stakeholders and the public has always been an extremely important part of the process of drafting and updating RBMPs and FRBPs EXAMPLE: East Aegean River basin directorate Duration - 1 year (instead of 6 months); Emphasis on active consultation: a prerequisite for balanced solutions and a basis for the future implementation of RBMPs and PoMs; 32 active events meetings and round tables with stakeholders at different levels national, basin, local; Coordination of consultation of RBMP and FRMP coordination of the periods for consultation and organisation of back to back meetings with stakeholders

8 EXAMPLE: East Aegean River basin directorate PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROCESS INFORMATION Information website, meetings through consultation CONSULTATION Е-мейл for communication, survey of opinions, ext INFORMATIO N CONSILTAT ION ACTIVE PARTICIP ATION ACTIVE PATICIPATION Thematic discussions and proposals during the consultation meetings, written opinions by post, s, facebook Meetings Brochures Questionnaires Media Website FACEBOOK TWITER School events on FRMP and RBMP topics Published proposals for changes in the PoMs during the consultations

9 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Integration of Young people to water topics and consultation process Example: Bulgarian Youth Parliament for Water More than 30 schools and 2000 young people participating in the BYPW Participation in the RBMP and FRMP consultation: 6 regional meetings for presentation of collected data by the students for water status and significant floods in the past 6 summer eco-schools, 23 meetings on water monitoring & status, assessing status of the river and lakes An Youth Basin Council will be created for the next cycle of BG RBMPs and FRMPs ;

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