📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2023
End Date: 30/09/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 5,754,798 €
EU Contribution: 3,452,879 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
To achieve good water status or potential as required by the Water Framework Directive objectives and attain the objectives of the Habitats Directive (HD) as well as EU Biodiversity Strategy, complex management activities will be carried out in Salaca River Sub-catchment: 1. Adaptation of directive harmonization actions in Salaca river subcatchment Both, the Habitats Directive (HD) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD), aim at ensuring healthy aquatic ecosystems while at the same time ensuring a balance between water/nature protection and the sustainable use of nature's natural resources. Indeed there are many synergies as the implementation of measures under the WFD will generally benefit the objectives of the HD, and vice versa. But both mentioned directives have different approaches. Firm and timely coordination between water and nature conservation authorities is highly recommended. It could help to save time, resources and improve the quality of obtained data and exchange between state institutions to reach a common goal - achieve good water status or potential as required by the Water Framework Directive objectives and attain the objectives of the EU Biodiversity Strategy. But a clearly defined approach, by harmonizing BD and WFD is needed. In this project a new approach for ecological quality assessment (common view of Habitat Directive and Water Framework directive) will be developed for Salaca river subcatchment. Guidelines of harmonised Habitat Directive and Water Framework Directive monitoring network will be prepared based on the Salaca sub-catchment example.
