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Good morning colleagues What I intend to do is just to give you a very short presentation of the content of the blueprint in relation to cross-cutting aspects and of course a Lot of what you have heard already is quite cross-cutting because there are many many linkages between the different Policy options which have been discussed so far But let's say these are more cross-cutting than the others and we have grouped them in three Big categories one concerns innovation and knowledge the second one is about governance and the third one is about Policy integration which he indeed has been already debated quite a bit concerning innovation and Knowledge of course you are familiar with the innovation partnerships that the European Commission launched last May and The work kicked off by the high-level steering group in September and the strategic implementation plan has been mentioned yesterday is due to adoption to be adopted in December this year the partnership tries to Focus on some of the blueprint priorities to develop Innovative tool if you like to deliver on the blueprint priorities so there's a close link between the partnership on water and The same applies to the partnership on agriculture productivity and sustainability which in the Commission is under the lead of Digi agriculture Then a second element is wise of course you are familiar with the water information system for Europe It's been around for a while member states have used it also for their reporting activities of the real basic management plans and The question here is more about how to improve wise how to make it more Interoperable with national databases how to make sure that the Necessary information for the decision-makers is available at the right time and at the right decision-making level The third element is Streamlining reporting and statistics Requirement there is an activity which needs to be accomplished under the CIS and it looks in particular at the issue of Harmonizing reporting cycles under the urban wastewater directive the nitrous directed the water framework directive that have different cycles four years in some cases six years under the WFD and how to make this Indeed compatible and in order to simplify the administrative exercise Also in the field of knowledge base there is an issue which has been mentioned yesterday In relation to the hydroeconomic model that has been developed by the joint research center of the commission This is a tool that is supposed to help water managers to deliver cost-effective Solution in fact, it's supposed to help them in making the choices for the most cost-effective measures of course it's it's a bit of a pilot at the moment it needs a lot of refining additional work additional information and then the last element on this slide is the continuation of the work on science policy interface, you know that this is an ongoing activity and An activity that some needs to continue because of course we always we continuously need Science the results of new project to feed into the policies so that the policy can adjust to technical and scientific Development the matter is more how to make this more effective under the CIS the second big group of issues in the cross-cutting part of the blueprint relate to governance and A lot of what has been discussed relate to governance directly or indirectly we discussed what recounts for instance, and they also relate to governance is the basic information that then allows you for instance for the the allocation of our water to the various Stakeholders, but here we focus more specifically on structural elements of the governance And possibilities to improve it in terms of learning from each other We thought it would be useful to offer the possibility of having a peer review system for the river basin management plans where the river basin districts which are more advanced can actually Contribute their experience share their knowledge with those that are less advanced and the Commission on the basis of the in-depth assessment of the plans of the member states that we have carried out could Facilitate this process could suggest For instance that some river basin district volunteer to help others Then there is the issue of inspection and surveillance of course This is not an issue related to what the policy only it's a wider issue concerning the enforcement of environmental policy and The commission is at the moment looking into an assessment of the existing recommendation so it's soft law instrument at European level on inspection and surveillance to see how this can be improved and made more effective So we can expect some proposal from the Commission the exact Nature or legal nature has not been decided yet and will be subject to an impact assessment And then the last element on governance concerns country specific recommendation in the European semester you know that there is the European semester process and There are a number of recommendations which are proposed by the Commission adopted by the European Council and then address to the member states in order to improve the economic governance at national level and Of course, there are close linkages between what a policy and many economic sectors So what we will be trying to do is to identify recommendations that offer win-win from the economic and the environmental Point of view so that's they deliver or they contribute to deliver what a policy objective is why actually also helping generating growth and jobs and The last element on cross-cutting issues is integration There's been a debate already here Including the cross-compliant and the cross-compliance under the cap to what the framework directive what we are not really discussed Is what does that mean in practical terms the water say a framework directive is a 70-page long very technical Directive extremely difficult to understand. I can imagine that the farmer who gets all of it Would be a little scared in Hearing that this should go into cross-compliance. Well, of course here. We're talking about some very limited selected provisions which are to be very concretely defined in order for them to be Added to the cross-compliance mechanism So the issues what are the measures to be added? Then I've mentioned already the European semester. It's repeated in these slides because of course It's potentially relevant for integration as it is for governance And then the last element I wanted to mention is awareness raising tools on water consumption in the previous presentation the issue of labeling globally traded goods has been Mentioned and a caveat was was put forward about The limitation for instance of the water footprint We are very well aware of these limitation and the blueprint does not propose the water footprint as a policy tool But rather as an awareness raising tool there are other tools like certification scheme like the European water stewardship's and Several others that indeed can contribute to make people aware of the impact of their lifestyle and behaviors on water the water environment So to conclude the questions for discussion. This is a subset of what you seen Background document which has been streamlined in order to facilitate the discussion covered the three aspects here what what is needed to improve knowledge base knowledge sharing and the wise Information system in Europe what can be done in order to improve governance? RPA reviews useful and Finally what should be the measures that could be added from WFD into the cap cross compliance or what else can we do? to help Integrating WFT objective in cross compliance. Thank you