The impact of European Directives on estuarine and coastal science and management

摘要: Many recent developments in European marine and estuarine science have been against the demands of Union legislation. The implementation certain statutes, role scientists nature data required are discussed using examples from UK, Netherlands Portugal. This includes EU Directives on Urban Waste-water Treatment, control Nitrates, designation Species Habitats, Dangerous Substances, statutory requirement for Environmental Impact Assessments recently proposed Water Framework Directive. For these, integration physical, chemical biological monitoring investigation is relation to dictated by legislative administrative requirements. Each these requires development generic guidelines protocols use national enabling indicates that, several cases, should concentrate assessment a well-structured quality-controlled manner. paper concludes summarising based similarities present across Europe.