Planning

Planning is a tool that must enable real conditions, in this case the aquatic environment, to be defined and objectives to be set, which must be met through the carrying out of a plan. These objectives are set for different long-term objectives (from 10 to 20 years in our case), and the plan is based on detailed studies of the current situation.

The current regulation is contained in the Edict of 16th March 1999, published in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Catalan Government) of 25th May 1999, which makes public the text that includes the determinations of the regulatory text of the Hydrological Plan for the Internal Basins of Catalonia.

The Hydrological Plan for the Internal Basins of Catalonia, approved by Royal Decree 1664/1998, of 24th July, which approved the river basin hydrological plans (Official State Gazette -BOE- number 191, of 11th August 1998), is supported by technical bases. Describes the hydrological state in 1992 and foresees situations in 2002 and 2012 as a first and second horizon. The Hydrological Plan includes the Water Treatment Plan which, following the same philosophy, describes the quality of rivers at source (1990) and sets objectives for the end of the Plan.

Taking into account the Directive 2000/60/EC of 23rd October 2000, which establishes a community framework of action in the area of water policies, it considers the validity of the current Hydrological Plan and determines its updating and review according to Decree 3/2003, of 4th November, which approved the reworked text of the legislation on water in Catalonia, called The Catalan River Basin District Management Plan.

The Catalan River Basin District Management Plan will take over from what was up to now the Hydrological Plan for the Internal Basins of Catalonia. Its content is defined by Decree 3/2003, of 4th November, which approved the reworked text of the legislation on water in Catalonia, which from the moment of its approval makes aspects considered in the Water Framework Directive legal.