Turkey - Three European institutional twinning projects

- Water Framework Directive, Twinning Project on Monitoring

This European twinning project on the implementation of the Framework Directive has been led since September 2011 by the Netherlands, France and Spain and aims to support the Turkish Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs in the development of Monitoring Plans for six pilot basins and a National Monitoring Plan to assess the ecological status of rivers, lakes, transitional and coastal waters.

 

- Flood Directive Twinning Project

The European twinning project "Capacity building for the implementation of the Flood Directive" aims to support the Water Management Directorate General of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs in its new coordination mission for better flood risk management in Turkey.

 

- Twinning project on the Bathing Water Directive

Starting in January 2013 for two years, the European Twinning project on the Bathing Water Directive in Turkey is led by the International Office for Water on behalf of the French Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in cooperation with the Italian Minoprio, mandated by the Lombardy Regional Council.