Rhine river basin district
The Rhine river basin district (RGE Rhein) is a river basin district defined as part of the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive , which includes the catchment area of the Rhine , but without the area of the Maas river basin district , and also includes the adjacent coastal waters . It extends from the in Switzerland located headwaters to the Rhine Delta and the Wadden Sea in the Netherlands .
The Rhine river basin district borders the Ems , Weser and Elbe river basin districts in the northeast, the Danube FGE in the southeast, the Rhone FGE in the southwest and the Maas FGE in the west.
On German territory, the FGE covers almost 106,000 square kilometers, for which the Water Management Act defines limits and responsibilities. The date in the German Commission for the Conservation of the Rhine organized federal states of Baden-Wuerttemberg , Bavaria , Hesse , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Thuringia and the federal government, with effect from 1 January 2012, have Rhine river basin association with Headquarters and office founded in Worms , which is chaired by the state of Hesse until 2015.
Web links
- Map of the German FGE (Annex 2 to the Water Resources Act)
- Map of the river basin districts in Germany , BMUB , accessed on July 27, 2015.
