It is based on milestones such as risk evaluation of anthropogenic pressures and impacts, monitoring programmes, development of river basin management plans (the first one to be published in 2009) and design and operation of programmes of measures.
Tá sé bunaithe ar chlocha míle mar mheastóireacht priacail ar bhrú agus tionchar antrapaigineacha, cláir mhonatóireachta, forbairt pleananna um bainistíocht abhantraí (tá an chéad cheann le foilsiú i 2009) agus ceapadh agus feidhmiú clár beart.