The Rhine Chemistry monitoring programme was first drafted for the first river basin management plan, that is, the monitoring years 2007-2012. Due to new insights, a more vast adaptation of the Rhine Chemistry monitoring programme was required for the second river basin…
In order to appreciate new substances which might possibly be relevant in future, the ICPR decided to implement a special monitoring programme within the Chemistry monitoring programme for the Rhine for 2013. The aim is to detect new substances in the Rhine water by applying the…
The different international water quality assessment systems applicable to the Rhine catchment: (i) the EU environmental quality standards (EQS), (ii) the environmental quality standards for the Rhine catchment (EQS Rhine) and (iii) the ICPR target values have been brought…
In 2013, the Conference of Rhine Ministers charged the ICPR to present a provisional strategy on adapting to climate change for the Rhine catchment in 2014, which was to be based on the assessment of existing studies on the discharge regime (floods and low flow) and on water…
The objective of the Warning and Alarm Plan (WAP) is, to pass on reports on sudden pollutions with substances noxious to water in the Rhine catchment if the amount and concentration may detrimentally impact the water quality and/or biocoenosis of the Rhine and to warn the…
The "<link file:604 _blank download den einer>Report on the Pollutant Contamination in the Rhine Catchment" presents the results of on-going and accomplished investigations in the Rhine bordering countries during 2000 to 2010.
The present proposal for a "First Joint Analysis Programme on the Pollutant Contamination of…
The choice of substances figuring in the List of Rhine Substances 2014 may shortly be described as follows:
- Substances figuring on the List of Rhine Substances 2007 and 2011 with an annual parameter below half of the value of the EQS of the Directive 2008/105/EC or the value of…
For the first time the ICPR has presented a report on the estimation of the effects of climate change on future Rhine water temperature development in the near future (2021-2050) and the far future (2071-2100). This estimation is based on the air temperature development as…
For the first time the ICPR has presented a report on the estimation of the effects of climate change on future Rhine water temperature development in the near future (2021-2050) and the far future (2071-2100). This estimation is based on the air temperature development as…
