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Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy
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Measures required under the following Directives:
The Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC);
The Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)(1);
The Drinking Water Directive (80/778/EEC) as amended by Directive (98/83/EC);
The Major Accidents (Seveso) Directive (96/82/EC)(2);
The Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC)(3);
The Sewage Sludge Directive (86/278/EEC)(4);
The Urban Waste-water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC);
The Plant Protection Products Directive (91/414/EEC);
The Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC);
The Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC)(5);
The Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Directive (96/61/EC).
The following is a non-exclusive list of supplementary measures which Member States within each river basin district may choose to adopt as part of the programme of measures required under Article 11(4):
legislative instruments
administrative instruments
economic or fiscal instruments
negotiated environmental agreements
emission controls
codes of good practice
recreation and restoration of wetlands areas
abstraction controls
demand management measures, inter alia, promotion of adapted agricultural production such as low water requiring crops in areas affected by drought
efficiency and reuse measures, inter alia, promotion of water-efficient technologies in industry and water-saving irrigation techniques
construction projects
desalination plants
rehabilitation projects
artificial recharge of aquifers
educational projects
research, development and demonstration projects
other relevant measures
OJ L 175, 5.7.1985, p. 40. Directive as amended by Directive 97/11/EC (OJ L 73, 14.3.1997, p. 5).
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