Project on cross-border integrated flood management

1. FLOOD-WISE
Sustainable flood management
strategies for cross border river basins
Fred van den Brink
IMC-meeting
26-11-2010

2. Contents
• Meuse in Interreg-programmes
• FRMD: Topics and implications
• FRMD: Outline implementation process
• FLOOD-WISE: Aim and focus
• FLOOD-WISE: Working process
• FLOOD-WISE: Partners and organization structure
• Operators in Meuse basin and proposed role IMC
• Activities and results
• Communication

3. Participation of Meuse Basin in Interreg
• Interreg IV A. AQUADRA
• Interreg IV B. AMICE
• Interreg IV C. FLOOD-WISE

4. Flood Risk Management Directive 2007
Topics:
• International river basin management plan
• Solidarity principle
• Subsidiary principle
Implicating:
• Need for cross-border cooperation (EU borders)
• Need for upstream-downstream adjustment
• Involvement of lower government levels

5. FRMD implementation process
Phase 1: 2011
preliminary flood risk
assessment
Phase 2: 2013
flood risk maps
Phase 3: 2015
flood risk
management plan
- maps
- experience past floods
- predictions future floods
- identification areas of
potential significant
flood risk
- knowing areas at risk of
flooding
- different scenarios
- flood hazard maps
- flood risk maps
- plan to reduce risks
- policy + measures
- synergy with WFD
- spatial planning
- prevention
- protection
- public information

6. Aim and focus FLOOD-WISE
• Cross-border and interregional cooperation on
sustainable flood management plans (FRMD)
• Exchange of knowledge and good practices on
institutional, instrumental and technical issues of
the FRMD
• Recommendations to EU, national, regional and
local organizations involved in implementation of
the FRMD

7. Working Proces FLOOD-WISE
Launch
April 2010
April Final
2011 October
2012
Phase 1
Preliminary Flood
Risk Assessment
Phase 2
Flood Risk Maps
Phase 3
Flood Risk
Management Plans

8. 6 river basins and 15 partners:
• Meuse basin: Netherlands, Belgium
• Ruhr basin: Germany, Netherlands
• Elbe basin: Germany, Czech republic
• Bug basin: Ukraine, Belarus, Poland
• Somes basin: Hungary, Rumania
• Sava: Slovenia, Croatia
FLOOD-WISE Partners

9. Meuse
River Basin
Coordinator
(2)
P2
P3
P4
Elbe
River Basin
Coordinator
(P7)
P7
P8
Sava
River Basin
Coordinator
(P9)
P9
P10
Western
Bug
River Basin
Coordinator
(P12)
P11
P13
P12
Ruhr
River Basin
Coordinator
(6)
P5
P6
Somes/T
isza
River Basin
Coordinator
(P14)
P14
P15
Steering Committee
(river basin coordinators, shared
service centre)
President (lead partner)
Political expert
Forums
Organization FLOOD-WISE
•Project coordination
•Financial Management
•Communication management
•Knowledge management
Shared Service
Centre (lead
partner)
Thematic
working groups

10. Operators involved in FLOOD-WISE
activities in Meuse Basin
• Provincie Limburg (RB coordination)
• SP de Wallonie, DG Opérationnelle
• Groupe Transversale Inondation
• Rijkswaterstaat/Waterdienst
• Waterschap Roer en Overmaas
• Waterloopkundig Laboratorium (Vlaanderen)
• Epama (France) (via AMICE)
• IMC as stakeholder (reflection/soundboard)

11. Proposed activities
• Start up seminar for all partners about FRMD requirements
• Kick off meetings to establish working groups (e.g. sustainable flood
management, flood mapping): agreement on action plans
• Yearly seminars and workshops on:
• Legal requirements, existing policies and instruments in each river
basin
• Sustainable and climate proof land use practices and flood risk
management in floodplains
• Comparison of risk assessment methods, flood maps and flood
management plans, experiments in 4 pilot river basins
• Compliance of existing tools with FRMD
• Recommendations for member states and EC

12. Expected results
• Good practices on sustainable flood risk maps and
management plans
• Better understanding and shared vision on FRMD across
borders
• Public information on FRMD and requirements on
sustainable flood risk management via WISE-RTD
• Policy recommendations for EC and member states

13. Communication
• Project website: www.floodwise.eu
• Wise RTD: www.wise-rtd.info
• PR and regular news letters
• Brochures
• Reports
• Publications

14. Thank you for your
attention!
www.floodwise.eu
www.wise-rtd.info
www.amice-project.eu
www.flapp.org