1. Review of the current status of the
implementation of DM plans and measures
within RBMP according to EU WFD
Activity 1.2
Elena Fatulova
2nd IDMP CEE Workshop
Ljubljana, 8 – 9 April 2014

2. Partners & Outputs
• Aim of Act. 1.2 – to gather information from
participating CEE countries on current status of
development and implementation of Drought
Management Plans
• 10 CEE countries involved in the activity (BL, CZ, HU,
LT, MO, PL, RO, SK, SLO, UA)
• Partners – national GWPs and experts from individual
countries
• Final output – Report summarizing the national
information provided through questionnaires

3. • First phase – information gathering:
 end of October 2013 - questionnaire developed and
distributed to all national contact persons
 31 December 2013 – questionnaires completed and
returned by all involved countries
• Second phase – Final Report – summary of information:
 1 March - draft of the Report sent for comments
 15 March – comments collected
 31 March 2014 – final Report completed in
accordance with original plan
Progress Report

4. Approach - principles
● EU drought policy developed within Common
Strategy for Implementation of Water Framework
Directive – based on drought risk management
approach
● Drought Management Plan - the main instrument for
enforcement of drought risk management strategy
● Consistency with EU WFD – Drought Management
Plan (not compulsory document!) a part of River
Basin Management plans

5. Basic documents
• Addressing the challenge of water scarcity and droughts
in the European Union (COM (2007)414 final, July 2007)
• A Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources
COM (2012) 673 final
• Communication Report on the Review of the water
scarcity & droughts policy in the EU Accompanying the
document (COM(2012) 672 final, Commission staff
working document)
• Drought Management Plan Report Including Agricultural,
Drought Indicators and Climate Change (Report 2007)

6. SCOPE
• Review of DMP and other associated plans
• Relevance of the water scarcity and drought issues
• Monitoring systems
• Indicator system and early warning system
• Drought risk maps
• Mitigation measures
• Organizational framework to deal with drought
• Public participation (according to WFD)

7. Table 2: Review of the current status of DMP development
DMP items BG CZ HU LT MO PL RO SK SLO UA
DMP developed X* X* X
DMP included in RBMP X* X
DMP content:
Indicators and thresholds establishing severity levels of the drought stages X X X
Drought situation assessment (frequency, intensity X X X X X X
Program of measures for preventing and mitigating drought
in each drought stage:
Preventive or strategic measures (normal status) X X X* X X X
Operational measures applied during pre-alert and alert stages X X X
Organizational measures X
Restoration measures
Early warning system developed: X X X X X X* X X
Air temperature X X X X X X
Precipitation X X X X X X
Snow reserve X
River flow X X X X X
Stored surface reservoir volume X X X
Aquifer water level X X X
Soil moisture content X X
Drought stages classified:
Normal status X X X*
Pre-alert status X X
Alert status X
Emergency or extreme status X X
Other classification system X
Organizational framework for the production of
DMP/WRMP and its updating
X X X

8. Conclusions
• Actual situation in DMP development within the region
is not satisfactory
• There are big differences among involved countries.
• The main shortcomings have been found in all key
elements of the Drought Management Plan:
indicators and thresholds establishing different
drought stages
measures to be taken in each drought phase
organizational framework to deal with drought

9. Conclusions
• Causes of water scarcity and drought are not clearly
distinguished
• Meteorological and hydrological monitoring
programmes present a good basis for development
of Drought Management Plans
• Impact drought monitoring programmes (impact on
society, agriculture, industry, environment) should
be developed or reviewed, completed and
interlinked with the meteorological monitoring

10. Recommendations
• Increase awareness on relevance of drought issues
directed to the state administration
• Improvement of methodologies for DMP development
mainly on the key elements of DMP (indicators and
thresholds, measures, organizational structure
• The drought national dialogues should be focused on
organizational arrangements
• Integration of nature protection issues into drought
management system
• Regional drought programmes for the Danube Strategy

11. • activity 1.2 is completed in accordance with a plan
• final Report (summary text and Annex II) – one of the
source for Act. 2.1 Guidelines for Drought Management
Plans and Act. 2.2 – national consultations
• all countries are/will be invited to provide detailed but
short information on key elements of DMP:
 drought indicator system (meteorological,
hydrological, agricultural) including drought impact
indicators
Plans

12. Plans - continuation
 thresholds for drought stages (normal, pre-alert,
alert, emergency)
 drought early warning system
• National consultation dialogues – emphasis on:
key elements of DMP – national experiences – Annex
of the Guidelines
development of organizational structure for drought
management (all partners and sector identified in the
questionnaire) – competent authority, working group
(example provided in Slovak Study Report)