Feasibility of WFD cost categories? Ingo Heinz Institute of Environmental Research (INFU), University of Dortmund, Germany SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, PARIS, FEBRUARY 17 & 18, 2005 Starting points: • Cost-recovery principle • Polluter-pays principle
Feasibility of WFD cost categories? Ingo Heinz Institute of Environmental Research (INFU), University of Dortmund, Germany SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE, PARIS, FEBRUARY 17 & 18, 2005. Starting points: Cost-recovery principle - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Feasibility of WFD cost categories?Ingo Heinz
Institute of Environmental Research (INFU), University of Dortmund, Germany
SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN THE WATER FRAMEWORK
Product price should cover all production costs, including the non-market costs (“externalities”)
Polluter-pays cost principle:
The prices charged for the use of environmental resources should cover all the cost of damages caused by emissions of pollutants or of the costs of reducing / preventing such damages
Water
Cost-recovery principle:
The water prices should cover all the costs of water services (such as water abtraction, water supply, wastewater disposal), incl. non-market costs
Polluter-pays principle:
Water pollution should be charged covering all the costs of damages caused or the costs of reduction / prevention of such pollution
Polluter-pays principle
Point-pollution (from industries or municipalities):• Charges on wastewater disposal• Charges on wastewater effluents
Non-point pollution (from agriculture):• Charges on pesticides
• Charges on mineral fertilisers, nutrient surplus
Full-cost recovery principle
Non-point pollution caused by agriculture
Should the prices of water services cover also the costs of compensation payments and advisory services provided to farmers?
Violation of the polluter-pays principle or
costs of measures to protect waters to be payed by water users?
Water user-pays principle
The use of water services should be charged, such as for