pollution of inland waters

Institute for Inland Water Management and Wastewater Treatment | RIZA [Abbr.]

Code of conduct on accidental pollution of transboundary inland waters

Code of Conduct on Accidental Pollution of Transboundary Inland Waters

indoor air pollution [ indoor pollution ]

internal waters [ interior waters | national waters | inland waters ]

Inland and coastal waters fishery workers

inland waters

inland waters

* contamination of soil and water resources, as pollution from marine or on-land sources, including landfills, migrates to the coastline; In some Member States, river borne pollution derived from agricultural runoff upstream in neighbouring countries is affecting the quality of coastal waters.

‘ “Territory” means, for the United States, the land areas (mainland and islands), internal waters and territorial sea under its sovereignty or jurisdiction, and, for the European Union and its Member States, the land areas (mainland and islands), internal waters and territorial sea in which the Agreement on the European Economic Area is applied and under the conditions laid down in that agreement and any successor instrument, with the exception of the land areas and internal waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of the Principality of Liechtenstein; application of this Agreement to Gibraltar airport is understood to be without prejudice to the respective legal positions of the Ki ...[+++]ngdom of Spain and the United Kingdom with regard to the dispute over sovereignty over the territory in which the airport is situated, and to the continuing suspension of Gibraltar Airport from European Union aviation measures existing as at 18 September 2006 as between Member States, in accordance with the Ministerial statement on Gibraltar Airport agreed in Córdoba on 18 September 2006; and’.

3) Environment, including investments connected with waste management, water supplies, water quality, protection and exploitation of river basins, environmental risk prevention (including protection against flooding and the pollution of inland waters), waste-water treatment and air quality, integrated pollution prevention and control, prevention of noise pollution, rehabilitation of contaminated sites and land, landscape development in rural areas, promotion of biodiversity and nature protection, aid to SMEs to promote sustainable production patterns, the introduction of simpler cost-effective environmental management systems and the ado ...[+++]ption and use of pollution-prevention technologies, including technologies to prevent climate change.

As provided for in Article 17 of that Directive, measures to prevent and control groundwater pollution should be adopted, including criteria for assessing good groundwater chemical status and criteria for the identification of significant and sustained upward trends and for the definition of starting points for trend reversals.