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Overseas territories, the WFD and bioassessment - n°28 | Meetings |

Over the past 5 years, the development of bioassessment tools suited to the overseas territories has made rapid progress. This symposium was an occasion to report on the progress achieved and to assess the work that must still be undertaken for the upcoming management cycles of the Water framework directive (WFD). A review.

Monitoring programmes: WFD requirements, their implementation and use of the results - n°27 | Meetings |

The purpose of the workshop was to facilitate discussions between European river basins on monitoring of water and aquatic environments, with the European commission and the European environment agency on hand, and to enhance the common implementation strategy for the WFD. It was an occasion to discuss monitoring results and the impact of monitoring on implementation of management plans and programmes of measures in 3 main fields, namely the purposes of the monitoring programmes, stakeholder organisation and roles, and monitoring strategies.

The ICE protocol for ecological continuity - Assessing the passage of obstacles by fish. Concepts, design and application | Knowledge for action |

Obstacles to flow in rivers constitute a major source of breaks in ecological continuity. Given the vast array of regulatory requirements, notably the Water framework directive, and the many environmental issues involved in restoring the ecological continuity of aquatic environments, Onema decided to create a "tool" to assess and quantify the impacts of hydraulic structures on the free movement of fish.

Methods and tools to control agricultural nonpoint-source pollution for managers of water resources - n°26 | Meetings |

Local governments are frequently confronted with the problem of managing agricultural nonpoint-source pollution. This type of pollution is one of the main causes of the degradation of water bodies in France and Europe. How can its management be improved and its impacts reduced? What are the tools and methods now available to water managers to effectively counter the pollution?

Bringing wetland research in line with operational needs - n°25 | Meetings |

The objective of the meeting, based on an analysis of wetland research over the past 10 years, was to set guidelines for scientific policy on wetlands better suited to the needs expressed in the field. This document reports on that meeting.