Ireland's State of the Environment Report 2024

439 Chapter 16: Environmental Policy Implementation and Performance OBJECTIVES • To improve and maintain good water quality including groundwater, rivers, lakes, estuaries, coastal waters and bathing waters GLOBAL • OSPAR Convention • MARPOL Convention EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES & POLICIES • Water Framework Directive • Marine Strategy Framework Directive • Bathing Water Directive • Groundwater Directive • Nitrates Directive • Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive • EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 • EC decision 2017/848 - criteria / standards for Good Environmental Status for marine waters NATIONAL POLICIES/PLANS • Water Action Plan 2024 – A River Basin Management Plan for Ireland • Ireland’s Marine Strategy Part 3 Programme of Measures • National Marine Planning Framework • Fifth Nitrates Action Programme 2022-2025 • Maritime Area Planning Act 2021 • National Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture 2021-2030 Draft/In prep: • Water Services Strategic Plan • Water and Planning Guidelines • National Water Resources Management Plan LOCAL/REGIONAL PLANS • Priority action areas (in River Basin MP) Draft/In prep: • Designated maritime area plans • catchment management plans OBJECTIVES • Reduce waste generation, improve waste management and promote more efficient resource use GLOBAL • Basel Convention • Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES & POLICIES • EU Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plans • Waste Framework Directive • Individual producer responsibility directives on Packaging, WEEE, End-of-Life Vehicles, Batteries & Accumulators etc. • Landfill Directive • WEEE • Single-use Plastics Directive • Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive NATIONAL POLICIES/PLANS • Climate Action Plan (2024) • Circular Economy Programme 2021- 2027 • National Hazardous Waste Management Plan (2021-2027) • Waste Action Plan for a Circular Economy 2024-2030 • National Waste Management Plan for a circular economy 2024-2030 • National Waste Prevention Programme Annual Reports LOCAL/REGIONAL PLANS • Litter management plans OBJECTIVES • To improve environmental protection and promote sustainable development GLOBAL • UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 • Aarhus Convention EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES & POLICIES • EU Green Deal • Industrial Emissions Directive • Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive • Environmental Impact Assessment Directive • Environmental Liabilities Directive • 8th Environmental Action Programme to 2030 • European Landscape convention NATIONAL POLICIES/PLANS • National Implementation Plan for the SDGs (2022-2024) • Circular Economy Programme 2021- 2027 • National Planning Framework / Project Ireland 2040 Water Quality Waste & Circular Economy Cross-cutting and Integrated Environmental Assessment