Translation of "Ökologischer zustand" in English

Its ecological and chemical status is good.

In particular many ecosystems in industrialised regions of Europe have not reached the "good" status.

The more a river stretch is deviating from the reference condition, the worse is its ecological status.

Does the Commission agree that the twin objectives of prevention of deterioration of current status, and the characterisation of what should constitute 'good' ecological status in the whole of the Ebro basin need to be fulfilled before further evaluation of whether the Ebro transfer is technically possible and which regions could finally benefit from it?

In the Water Framework Directive, successfully adopted in 2000 due to the fact that Mrs Lienemann was the rapporteur, 'good environmental status' is called for by 2015, that is to say, 15 years after the adoption of the directive.

The objective of the Directive, achieving good environmental status of all waters by 2015, poses an important challenge as the majority of water bodies in the EU have been identified as at risk of failing to meet the objectives of the directive if no action is taken.

In order to define one of the main environmental objectives of Directive 2000/60/EC, namely good ecological status, that Directive provides for a process to ensure the comparability between the biological monitoring results of Member States and their monitoring system classifications.

It will build on the concepts of favourable status of conservation and good ecological status as required by the Habitat and Water Framework Directives and various initiatives regarding the definition of ecological quality objectives.

Water Framework Directive requirements are only partly implemented and good ecological status is not obtained in all the basins.

Despite the requirement in the Water Framework Directive to protect, enhance and restore all bodies of surface and ground water, and considerable efforts to date, the objective of ‘good ecological status’ by 2015 is likely to be met only for 53 % of surface water bodies in the Union [24].

Member States having borders on the same marine region or subregion covered by this Directive should, where the status of the sea is so critical as to necessitate urgent action, devise a plan of action in accordance with paragraph 1 which includes an earlier entry into operation of programmes of measures as well as possible stricter protective measures, provided that this does not prevent good environmental status from being achieved or maintained in another marine region or subregion.

In their majority, delegations agreed that the Directive should include an explicit definition of the concept of "good environmental status" (GES) and indicated some of the main elements they considered should be included in such a definition to make it operational.

Water Framework Directive requirements are implemented and good ecological status is obtained in most of the basins.

This approach is made operational through provisions established under the Water Framework Directive, with a general objective of achieving 'good ecological status' for all waters and specific objectives for so-called 'protected areas' such as bathing waters9.

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters to be in a good ecological state by 2015.

This means that if the reason for not achieving ‘good ecological status’ of the surface water is due to the contamination of sediments by ‘historic pollutants’, the Member State has to report this in the ‘river basin management plan’ and include remedial action in the ‘programme of measures’.

The Council noted the German delegation's information on the HELCOM Action Plan for the Baltic Sea aimed at restoring its good ecological status by 2021(13168/07).

Their responsibilities include establishing the denition of ‘good agricultural and environmental condition’ for their agricultural circumstances (at national or regional level), taking into account the specic characteristics of the areas concerned, including soil and climatic condition, existing farming systems, land use, crop rotation, farming practices and farm structures.

EU countries will have to present a detailed assessment on the state of their seas, define what good environmental status means to them in their regional seas, establish targets and set out monitoring programmes.

The policy put in place Is in line with the EU's water framework directive, which is designed to attain a good ecological status in all waters by 2015.

This legislation concerns inter alia the 18 regulations and directives underpinning the cross-compliance system, as well as the standards defined as Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition (GAEC) which is also part of the cross- compliance requirements.

Within Europe, this conference is seen as an evaluation and learning point for the river connectivity goals of the European Water Framework Directive, according to which good ecological status should be achieved in European river basins by 2015.

This step became imperative as current assessments show that more than half of the surface water bodies in Europe are classified as being below the level of 'good ecological status'.