Status of the authorization demands.

This layer contains the inspections and controls carried out by the SICOPOL service of the Water Management Administration.

According to the WFD the assessment of the stauts of the surface water bodies is based on the evaluation of the monitoring results. According to Article 8 of the WFD, Member States must ensure the establishment of monitoring programs, inter alia, for surface waters. The monitoring of the surface water bodies is carried out at surveillance monitoring stations and operational measuring points. For surface waters, the WFD also foresees an investigative monitoring.

The types of measures related to hydromorphology (HY) which are defined in the catalogue of measures of the third river basin management plan, were assigned to the individual water bodies. The objective of this assignation is to identify for each water body those measures that will help to reduce the pressures and deficits present in the water body, thereby improving its status or maintaining its good status. The hydromorphological measures include the restoration of the ecological continuity, the improvement of the riverbed structure as well as the restoration of a near-natural hydrological regime.

The chemical status of the surface water bodies is assessed as being good or failing to achieve good chemical status. The assessment of the chemical status for the third river basin management plan is based on the list of substances of directive 2008/105/EC and the environmental quality standards established by the new directive 2013/39/EC.

The "good ecological potential" is the environmental quality objective defined by the water framework directive for artificial and heavily modified surface water bodies. The assessment of the ecological potential is presented in four classes ranging from 1 to 4 (good and higher, moderate, poor, bad). The classification of the ecological potential is based on the biological, physico-chemical and in some cases also the hydromorphological quality elements.

The ecological status of the natural surface water bodies is assessed in 5 classes going from 1 to 5 (high, good, moderate, poor, bad). The classification of the ecological status is based on the biological quality elements, physico-chemical quality elements and in some cases also the hydromorphological quality elements.

The chemical status of the surface water bodies is assessed as being good or failing to achieve good chemical status. The assessment of the chemical status for the third river basin management plan is based on the list of substances of directive 2008/105/EC and the environmental quality standards established by the new directive 2013/39/EC. The assessment without the ubiquist substances permits to get a differentiated picture of the actual situation.

According to the water framework directive WFD (DIR 2000/60/CE), important physico chemical parameters are measured in the surface water bodies for the assessment of the ecological status. The modalities for this monitoring are stated in the grand ducal Regulation of 15 January 2016 (règlement grand-ducal du 15 janvier 2016 concernant l'évaluation of the dimension d'eau de surface). General physico-chemical parameters are used together with the river basin specific pollutants for evaluation of the ecological status.

River basin specific pollutants are substances that enter the river basin or parts of it in significant quantities. The quantitative assessment is done with environmental quality standards that are fixed by the European Union member states. In Luxembourg, the substances and limit values (annual average) are fixed in the grand ducal regulation of 15 January 2016 (règlement grand-ducal du 15 janvier 2016 concernant l'évaluation des masses d'eau de surface). Evaluation takes place with 2 categories (good, moderate and worse). River basin specific pollutants are used together with the general physico-chemical parameters for evaluation of the ecological status.