Reporting obligation for: Unit of management and competent authorities

Title Unit of management and competent authorities
Description Different competent authorities may be appointed by Member States for the Floods Directive as defined according to the Water Framework Directive. The Floods Directive also allows Member States to identify different units of management from the river basin districts used for the Water Framework Directive.

Member States shall:
(a) appoint competent authorities different from those identified pursuant to Article 3(2) of Directive 2000/60/EC;
(b) identify certain coastal areas or individual river basins and assign them to a unit of management different from those assigned pursuant to Article 3(1) of Directive 2000/60/EC.

In these cases, Member States shall, by 26 May 2010, communicate to the Commission the information referred to in Annex I to Directive 2000/60/EC.
Legislative instrument title Floods Directive
Reporting dates and guidelines
National reporting coordinators
National reporting contacts
Reporting frequency terminated
Next report due terminated
Date comments Any changes in administrative arrangements need to be communicated to the Commission within three months of the change coming into effect. 
Report to European Commission, Directorate General Environment
Other clients using this reporting
Reporting guidelines Floods Directive reporting resources  
Extra information Floods Directive reporting resources at ETC/ICM web site contains support files for reporting including help documents and schemas (CA_UoM).

Two reporting sheets (30/11/2009):
-Reporting sheet for Competent Authorities,
-Reporting sheet for Units of Management
are available at Flood Risk Management WFD CIRCA library http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/wfd/library?...
Principle repository CDR  
Data used for
Type of information reported Data, Administrative, Compliance, Spatial, Text report