Stock-taking analysis and outlook of drought policies, planning and management in EU Member States

This includes besides the complete non-inclusion of this provision in national law, other gaps that refer to specific elements, such as the need to carry out a the validation of exemptions by appropriate indicators (gap in 5 EU MS), the inclusion of measures into the RBMP (gap in 4 EU MS), and the inclusion of a summary of drought effects and measures into the RBMP (gap in 3 EU MS). [...] Administrations and stakeholders in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands identified the most strengths in their drought management system; in the case of the Netherlands, the only identified weakness is regarding transboundary cooperation. [...] In 2019, the Commission issued the 5th report on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the Floods Directive (EC, 2019a), assessing the second RBMPs and the first FRMPs. [...] The planned Drought Strategy will cover the whole Wallonia Region and be included in the third cycle RBMP, with a new Dispositif sécheresse Wallon 2.0 and a new SERRE 2.0 in preparation), and aims to strengthen the governance of the two existing processes (DSW and SRRE), as well as to ensure the coherence of the numerous works and their progress, to federate all the competences, to support the pro. [...] Regarding the interrelation of the various strategies and plans addressing drought management in Flanders, the aim is that the set of actions in the Blue Deal and the drought-related aspects from the Climate Adaptation Plan will become an integral part of the third cycle RBMP.