BASIC INFORMATION

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BASIC INFORMATION

• Administrative and institutional structure in the
  water sector in the Czech Republic

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Three River Basins - Elbe (North Sea, 66),Odra
(Baltic Sea, 13), Morava (Black Sea, 21)
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Water authorities

• Ministries,- central water authorities (policy
  makers)
• Regional authorities (permitting authorities)
• District authorities (will be abolished at the
  end of 2002),
• Authorised municipalities (minor permitting
  authorities)
• River Basin Companies (water management bodies)
• Czech Environmental Inspection (enforcement body)
• Czech Environmental Inspection was created in
  1991 for the enforcement of environmental
  legislation in all regions

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Ministries as central water authorities

• Ministry of Agriculture acts as the central water
  authority in all areas except those specified as
  being the responsibility of the Ministry of
  Environment
• Ministry of the Environment acts as the central
  water authority regarding
• protection of the quantity and the quality of
  surface water and groundwater, monitoring and
  assessment of water bodies, development and
  maintenance of the information system,
• tasks related to European legislation in water
  protection, co-ordination the adoption and
  implementation of EC legislation in the water
  sector,
• co-ordination of the water management plans and
  programs of measures as part of the international
  co-operation in water protection in the Elbe,
  Danube and Oder River Basin Districts.

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Ministries as central water authorities (contd.)

• Ministry of Health executes the powers of a
  central water authority in the matters relating
  to quality of drinking water and the
  determination of surface water in use for
  bathing, in co-operation with the Ministry of the
  Environment.
• Ministry of Transport and Communications executes
  the powers of a central management authority in
  the matters relating to using surface water for
  shipping.
• Ministry of Defence executes the powers of a
  central water authority in matters falling under
  the jurisdiction of military zone authorities.

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• Regional Authorities (14)
• Main responsibilities
• co-operation with the Ministry of Agriculture
  (MA) and the Ministry of the Environment (ME) in
  preparation of programs of measures in river
  basin districts and implementation of measures
  stipulated by the programs of measures in public
  interest,
• decisions in matters regarding transboundary
  waters after consulting with MA and ME
• adoption of measures in extreme situations, in
  particular in cases of water shortages and
  accidents

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• District Authorities (77/0) execute presently the
  powers of the water authority.
• Authorised municipal authorities (377/209)
• Main responsibilities
• permits for withdrawal and other use of surface
  water or groundwater for the need of individual
  citizens (households), except for the discharge
  of waste water into surface water or groundwater
• permits for the construction of individual
  housing buildings in flood plain areas when these
  activities do not affect the runoff regime
• Numbers in brackets (current no. of authorities /
  no. of authorities after completion of
  administrative reform at the end of 2002)

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• Czech Environmental Inspection

The CEI has been created in 1991 for the
enforcement of environmental legislation. One
Head office at a national level and 10 Regional
Inspectorates at the regional level Main
responsabilities Air protection, Water
protection, forest protection inspectorate

• River Basin Boards

Main responsabilities Administration of
important watercourses and cooperation with small
watercourses administrators, Formation of
conditions for rational and ecological
utilisation of surface water, watercourses and
water supply, Protection against the emergency
water pollution, against floods, exploitation
water power, fisheries farming, storage
reservoirs.
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Administration of watercourses and river basins

• Significant watercourses and river basins
• Elbe River Basins State Company
• Vltava River Basins State Company
• Ohre River Basins State Company
• Odra River Basins State Company
• Morava River Basins State Company

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Sub Basins Povodí
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Administration of watercourses and river basins
(contd.)

• Small watercourses
• Agriculture Water Management Authority
• Administrations of National Parks
• Forests of the CR, State Company
• Municipalities
• Military zones

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Surface Water Quality Monitoring

• In national network since 1959
• Data stored in database since 1963
• Historical development of number of sampling
  sites Historical development of measured list of
  parameters

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Surface water quality monitoring network 260
sampling sites
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List of parameters

• Basic set of parameters all sampling sites
  (Oxygen regime, nutrients, microbiology etc.)
  frequency 12 per year
• Heavy metal (130 sampling sites,depending on
  reason) frequency 12 per year
• Organic compounds (130 sampling sites, PAHs,
  PCBs, VOC, pesticides, etc.) frequency 12 per
  year

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Ground Water Quality Monitoring

• In national network since 1963
• Data stored in database since 1963
• Historical development of number of sampling
  sites (three networks shallow wells - 146, deep
  wells - 180, springs - 135)
• Historical development of measured list of
  parameters

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List of parameters

• Basic set of parameters all sampling sites
• Organic compounds (Exceeding AOX limit values,
  PAH, VOC, pesticides, etc.) frequency 1
  (spring) per year

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Deep wells
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Basic characteristics

• Percentage of CR population linked to public
  water supply systems
• in 1989 in 2001
• 82.4 87.3
• Percentage of CR population living in houses
  linked to public sewerage systems
• in 1989 in 2001
• 72.4 74.9
• Quantity of waste water discharged into public
  sewerage systems
• in 1989 in 2001
• 878 mil. m3 570.7 mil.m3
• of which purified (including partial treatment)
• in 1989 in 2001
• 71.5 95.5

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Web Sites of Interest

• www.env.cz - Ministry of Environment
• www.mze.cz - Ministry of Agriculture
• www.chmi.cz - Hydrometereological Institute
• www.vuv.cz - Water Research Institute
• www.povodi.cz - River Basin Boards/Companies
• www.zvhs.cz - Agricultural Water Management
  Authority (responsible for monitoring and
  management of small watercourses attached to
  the Ministry of Agriculture)