Arbeitspapier | Working paper

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

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.

ISSN
1436-140X
Extent
Seite(n): 17
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
UFZ Discussion Papers (13/2014)

Subject
Recht
Ökologie
Ökologie und Umwelt
Recht
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Europäisches Recht
Gesetzgebung
Ressourcen
Wasser
Umweltrecht
Rahmenrichtlinien
Kosten
Umweltschutz

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gawel, Erik
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
(where)
Deutschland, Leipzig
(when)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-389545
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Gawel, Erik
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ

Time of origin

  • 2014

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