In the preparation phase of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive in Hungary Aqua.REKK contributed to the work of the Economics Task Group that developed the national WBMP.
In a multidisciplinary team of experts our role was the development and test of a methodology and a related decision-support system to develop a cost-effective programme of measures in order to reach good water status as defined by the WFD. The decision-support system has been tested on several sub basins in Hungary.
Our activities also included developing proposals for the horizontal economic instruments (Background studies to the 7th chapter):
- Connection points of WDF goals and the local water management problems - status of the agricultural water service;
- Proposal to upgrade the water resource fee;
- Economic instruments to foster the creation of the water protection areas;
(The Hungarian language documents can be accessed here)
- Proposal to upgrade the water resource fee;
- Economic instruments to foster the creation of the water protection areas;
(The Hungarian language documents can be accessed here)