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adaptation of legislation (accepted Ukrainian terminology) – the modification of national legislation in order to approximate it to EU legislation.
approximation of legislation (accepted EU terminology) – the modification of national legislation to bring it into conformity with EU legislation.
emission – the direct or indirect release to the air, water or soil of a substance, vibration, heat, or noise, discharged by a point source or the diffused source of some facility.
emission limit – the concentration and mass of a substance over a specific period, which should not be exceeded when that substance is discharged by a facility.
environmental goals – quantitatively expressed indicators of the environmentally sound condition of components of the natural environment.
environmental management – planning, organizational, regulatory, monitoring, control and registration activities directed to achieving environmental goals within a uniform management system.
environmentally protected zone – a territory and/or defined area of water requiring special protection in order to preserve natural habitats and species that are directly dependent on that water.
harmonization of legislation – a bilateral (or multilateral) process involving the reciprocal approximation of legislative regulations.
implementation – creation of the conditions that ensure the application of new regulations that have been introduced to national legislation.
protective riverside area – that part of a water protective zone that it subject to more strict regulations governing economic activity, when compared to other parts of the water protective zone.
raion of river basin (also referred to as river basin raion) – a territory consisting of one or more neighboring river basins, together with the related underground and near-shore water, which is designated as a primary unit for the environmental management of river basins.
return water – water returning from an economic unit of water circulation to its natural elements in the form of waste, overflow, or drainage water.
transboundary water – water bodies that demarcate or cross national boundaries.
transposition – the transfer of EU legislative regulations to national legislation.
water body – an element of the natural environment containing water, representing a natural constituent of the hydrological water cycle (sea, river, natural reservoir, stream, lake, pond, water-bearing horizon).
water protective zone – an environmentally protected natural area adjoining a water body where economic activity is regulated to ensure favorable conditions for the water body, thereby preventing its pollution, clogging, and depletion.
water use – the direct use of water bodies to satisfy the needs of the general public, industrial sectors, and services industries.
water user – a natural person or legal entity exercising water use.
List of abbreviations
ECE (UN) – Economic Commission for Europe (UN)
EU – European Union
IRRB – the international raion of a river basin (international river basin raion)
UN – United Nations Organization
RRB – the raion of a river basin (river basin raion)
SAP – Strategic Action Programme
ToR – Terms of Reference
