Article 9 Water Framework Directive: do we really need to calculate environmental and resource costs?

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Gawel, Erik

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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Abstract	Article 9 of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires Member States to take account of the principle of recovery of the costs of water services, including environmental and resource costs (ERCs). Whilst legally the Member States have broad scope for discretion when applying Article 9, the idea that the EU legislator has effectively assigned the Member States a mathematical task to determine the level of cost recovery achieved for environmental and resource costs as well is increasingly gaining ground in the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) process. The present paper shows that this strict interpretation of taking account of environmental and resource costs has no basis in Article 9, is conceptually misleading, and could even prove counter-productive for the practical application of water protection.
Thesaurusschlagwörter	water; environmental law; European Law; basic directives; environmental protection; resources; costs; legislation; Federal Republic of Germany
Klassifikation	Ökologie und Umwelt; Recht
Sprache Dokument	Englisch
Publikationsjahr	2014
Erscheinungsort	Leipzig
Seitenangabe	17 S.
Schriftenreihe	UFZ Discussion Papers, 13/2014
ISSN	1436-140X
Status	Veröffentlichungsversion
Lizenz	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz., Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen