Sentence examples for directives for assessing from inspiring English sources

The number and variety of freshwater species and bioassay procedures currently recommended in European Directives for assessing the risk posed by pollutants to freshwater ecosystems is rather limited.

The Fluvial Ecology Laboratory at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (LEF-CITAB) uses the River Habitat Survey (RHS) methodology a Water Framework Directive accepted method for assessing the character and habitat quality of rivers, which involves the use of a paper questionnaire, GPS and photographic camera for the collection of data in the field, which can be very cumbersome.

In addition to log KOW and BCF, information on biomagnification in aquatic and terrestrial food chains can provide important information for assessing bioaccumulation potential of chemicals in many directives, regulations, guidelines or other official documents.

In the future, criteria should be harmonised and improved in the different directives and regulations and field data should be more intensively used for assessing the bioaccumulation potential of chemicals.

European Directive 2002/49/EC indicates that strategic noise maps are the main tool for assessing the exposure of the population to environmental noise.

For each Priority Hazardous Substance newly defined by the directive, EQS values, i.e., effect-based numerical quality criteria for assessing the status of an aquatic system, need to be derived and enforced.

A complementary directive (EC 2008) transfers European law into national law and designates the procedure for assessing the need for critical infrastructure protection.

That directive created a political opportunity to update DAC's obsolete 10% rule and restore an increment of credibility to this system for assessing how much nations are contributing to the global public good.

The significance of bioaccumulation for assessing the chemical status of bodies of water is increasingly acknowledged as exemplified by setting new EQSbiota in the amended WFD EQS directive.

A recent US American study examined the prevalence of advance directives and assessed the concordance between patient preferences as stated in the directive and the actual care the patient received.

Mr. Wright may not be issuing directives for much longer.