REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Negotiating Group for the Chapter 27, Environment and Climate Change Bilateral screening: Chapter 27 PRESENTATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA Directive 2007/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2007 on the assessment and management of flood risks Republic Directorate for Water Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Brussels, November 2014 1
Transposition status (1/5) Floods Directive has been almost fully transposed through: Law on Waters (2010) Regulation on the establishment of the methodology for preliminary flood risk assessment (2012) Full transposition after: Preparation of the Regulation on the establishment of the methodology for preparation of flood hazard and flood risk maps (2014) Adoption of Regulation by the Government of Serbia (2015) Amendments of the Law on Waters (2015/2018) to include deadlines 2
Transposition status (2/5) Item Status Requirement/Comment GENERAL PROVISIONS Purpose, Definitions, Flood risk, Administrative arrangements Flood +/- PFRA & APSFR Territory, Contents, International river basins + Amendment of LoW: definition of flash flood PFRA deadline - Amendment of LoW APSFR identification + International APSFR coordination + + 3
Transposition status (3/5) Item Status Requirement/Comment FLOOD HAZARD AND FLOOD RISK MAPS Scale of the maps, Exchange of information, Scenarios, Flood hazard maps, Flood risk maps, Flooding from groundwater sources - Regulation on flood mapping Deadline - Amendment of LoW Coastal flooding - Not relevant 4
Transposition status (4/5) Item Status Requirement/Comment FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT PLANS Coordination, Content of FRMP, Solidarity principle, Deadline, International river + districts Objectives - Overall obj. set in LoW. A single FRMP or a set of coordinated FRMPs + Specific obj. to be set in FRMP. For the Republic of Serbia. For water districts. 5
Transposition status (5/5) Item Status Requirement/Comment COORDINATION WITH DIR00ECTIVE 20/60/EC, PUBLIC INFORMATION AND CONSULTATION Coordination with WFD, Interested parties involvement, + Public availability Coordination/integration with RBM plan +/- Amendment of LoW REVIEWS, REPORTS AND FINAL PROVISIONS PFRA review cycle, Maps review cycle, CC impact review - Amendment of LoW FRMP review cycle +/- 2017, Amendment of LoW 6
Distribution of competences (1/2) Competent authority for transposition of FD: Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Republic Directorate for Water Competent authorities for implementation of FD (the same as for WFD): Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Republic Directorate for Water: PFRA for the Republic of Serbia FRMP for the Republic of Serbia Public Water Management Companies: FH and FR maps for APSFRs within relevant water districts FRMP for water districts (WD) Republic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia Ministry of Interior-Sector for Emergency Situations 7
Distribution of competences (2/2) Public WM Companies in charge of 1 st order rivers: PWMC Vode Vojvodine WD Srem, WD Backa and Banat PWMC Srbijavode: WD Sava, WD Morava, WD Donji Dunav PWMC Beogradvode: WD Beograd Water management within water districts (administrative borders), not river basins. Municipalities are in charge of 2 nd order rivers. Administrative capacities should be strengthened at all levels (national-local) 8
Status of implementation (1/6) Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment completed 2012 Significant past floods Potential future floods 99 APSFRs in Serbia http://www.rdvode.gov.rs/doc/6.2.1%20znacajna%20poplavna%20podrucja %20za%20teritoriju%20Republike%20Srbije.pdf 9
Status of implementation (2/6) gaps First cycle of PFRA was included: only fluvial floods, not pluvial and groundwater and Climate change 2nd PRFA (2018) will include all relevant types of floods and climate change assessment 10
May 2014 Flood verified APSFR identification: 42 out of 99 identified APSFR in Serbia were affected Municipalities where state of emergency was declared On May 15, state of emergency was declared in the whole country 11
Status of implementation (4/6) Flood Hazard and Flood Risk Maps in progress 27 of 99 APSFR mapped within projects: Danube Floodrisk SoFPAS 1 FRMP Tamnava Other APSFRs should be mapped by PWMCs through IPA 2014-2020. 12
Status of implementation (5/6) Flood hazard maps: Q100 and Q1000 scenarios Flood risk maps: different methodologies for risk mapping per project, due to a lack of an official methodology 13
Status of implementation (6/6) Flood Risk Management Plans preparatory stage (ICPDR activities) First cycle- To be prepared by 2017 for the territory of the Republic of Serbia and for water districts, with the available maps subsequent reviews - adopted by 2021 General content set in the LoW Overall objective for the management of flood risks set in the LoW, specific objectives to be set in Water Management Strategy and FRMP The same competent authorities are to prepare River Basin Management Plan and Flood Risk Management Plan Coordination of objectives and measures on the Danube River Basin level is ongoing in the frame of ICPDR 14
Conclusions Floods Directive has been almost fully transposed, full transposition is expected after adoption of regulation on flood mapping (2015) and amendments of LoW (2018). Main Competent authorities for the implementation of the FD are the same as for the WFD: Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, Republic Directorate for Water, at the state level, Public Water Management Companies, at the WD level. Implementation of the FD is in the operating stage. 15
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