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BOX 9: Cost implications for implementing the Water Framework Directive in Albania
The costs of ensuring that large combustion plants reduce emissions to an acceptable
level may include the construction of new plants to replace outdated ones,
and the addition of new units to less-polluting plants to compensate for energy
losses. The closure of certain industries will represent the biggest cost. In Estonia,
the application of BAT to large combustion plants is estimated to require capital
outlay of EUR 427.9 million by 2005 and EUR 801.8 million by 2010 (REC and
Umweltbundesamt GmbH, 2008).
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In Albania, the cost of full transposition of the legal framework for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is estimated
at EUR 800,000. The total implementation costs for the institutional set-up amount to one-off costs of
EUR 5.4 million and recurrent costs of EUR 524,000 per year. These costs will be sustained primarily by the national
competent authority responsible for implementing the WFD and by the new river basin authorities. The total
costs relate mainly to the establishment of the necessary administrative infrastructure and to building its capacity,
as well as to establishing and operating the monitoring system, rather than to technical measures, which are
assumed to arise under other directives.
The total estimated cost of technical assistance projects — over EUR 4.8 million — reflects the ambitious scope
of the directive. It has been estimated that the operating costs (excluding capital costs) of the monitoring required
to comply with the WFD will be EUR 182,000 per year. However, the present allocation in the MoEFWA
budget for monitoring (which also covers operating costs only) is just EUR 110,000 per year, an estimated third
of which (EUR 37,000 per year) is available for water. On this basis, the additional operating costs required for
water monitoring would be EUR 145,000 per year.
Source: REC Survey 2009
BOX 10: Capital investment needs in the water sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (12-year period)
• Water supply: EUR 594.4 million
• Water protection: EUR 467.2 million
Republika Srpska
Investments are to be realised in two phases until 2033.
• Infrastructure revitalisation
• Water distribution network: EUR 143.3 million (KM 280 million)
• Wastewater treatment plants: EUR 1.2 million (KM 2.3 million)
• New system developments
• Water distribution network: EUR 77.4 million (KM 151.4 million
• Wastewater treatment plants: EUR 150.8 million (KM 295 million)
Source: REC survey, 2009
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