•Besides financial
support for a more environmental-friendly agriculture and
dissemination of knowledge, it is necessary that all M.S. arrive at a full
implementation of the Nitrate Directive, reinforce surveys and controls at
field level
(including checking of fertilisation plans and records, manure storage and
handling, soil analysis, natural buffer strips, etc.), and introduce
dissuasive penalties for the producers who do not ensure eco-compliance.
•Investments in urban
wastewater treatment will be inefficient regarding nutrients if a parallel
effort is not devoted to an effective reduction of agricultural
nutrients losses.
•Water Framework Directive (WFD). A synergy has to be developed in the future work for common
implementation of these water directives, on items such as:
• — Harmonisation of water sampling
points, networks, parameters and frequencies
for water quality monitoring in order to meet, with minimum work at field level, the needs linked with EU Directives, OECD-Eurostat Questionnaires, EEA
“Eurowaternet”, Marine and River Conventions, and local/regional needs.