European water framework directive reflected by the Romanian legislation

• Main Authors: Andrei, M, Ristoiu, D
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Flame retardants; Legislation; Organic chemistry; Organic compounds; Pesticides; Pollutants; Pollution monitoring; River basins; Water management; Water pollution; Water quality
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/1.4833744

The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is one of the most ambitious legislative instrument in the field of water policy which has as major aim the achievement of a good status for all surface and ground waters in the European Union (EU) until 2015. For this purpose Member States of EU have to identify major water surfaces within their territory, assign them to river basin districts and establish for the river basin districts the management plans and programmes of measures. The strength but also the most problematic issue of WFD law package is the pollution of water from chemicals which is set out in Article 16 of the WFD 2000/60/EC. As a first step of this strategy, a list of priority substances were adopted (Decision 2455/2001/EC) identifying 33 chemicals or groups of chemicals (mainly organic compounds as pesticides, certain PAHs, BTEX, halogenated solvents, flame retardants, etc.) which are of great concern throughout EU, due to their widespread usage. Romania, as a member state of the EU needs to align its legislative package on water quality protection to those proposed in WFD. Major problems arise from the lack of standard methods for qualitative and quantitative monitoring of these priorities chemical pollutants.