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On April 17th 2015, in Warsaw, the Polish Ecological Club togetherwith the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering organized aseminar on ?Solutions for Polish and Baltic Eutrophication (problems) ?Low-Nutrient Surplus Agriculture and Sustainable Waste Management?.

The main goal of the seminar ? which was introduced by MariaStaniszewska Chairwoman of the Polish Ecological Club and Prof SGGWTomasz Okruszko ? was to identify sources of pollution as well asshowing the methods to effectively reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loadsthat every year get into the Baltic Sea through basin rivers. This goalis closely connected to the goal of the Water Framework Directive, toachieve good status of water till 2015.

The seminar participants were experts, representatives of NGOs andadministrations, as well as farmers who went through the currentproblems connected with water pollution by nutrients and the ways wecould involve stakeholders in activities. Following are twopresentations and an overview of the seminar outcomes:

It was meeting of experts, NGOs representatives and administrations, as well as the farmers where was talking on current problems connected with water pollution by nutrients and the ways how we could enable stakeholders into activities.

During the lecturers the following issues were included: the obligations resulting from Water Framework Directive, EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Nitrate Directive, which define management of nitrates and phosphorus and consequences of nutrient leaching from agriculture production, special big animal farms. We also talk on country program proposal for waste water treatment for agglomeration 2-10 thousand RLM, and below. We discuss on Polish obligations resulting from Baltic Sea Action Plan and possibilities to fulfill it. Conditions posed by the Water Framework Directive are high. Poland should achieve full compliance by the end of 2015. To introduce this conditions we need cooperation of all stakeholders. Social monitoring of implementation activities connected with these acts, the NGOs lead from many years and highlight concrete problems The most important is cooperation between different stakeholders like experts and farmers to stop nutrient leaching to the surface water. The problems which create agriculture could be solved by agriculture methods and we discuss on it.

During the workshops after conference, the participants discuss how to reduce nutrient runoff from agricultural land. The participants found many different causes: lack of farmers knowledge, lack of sufficient financial instruments to protect water and soil, lack sufficient support from the agricultural advisers, lack of monitoring water and soil status. All these comments will be included in the position of non-governmental organizations. The workshops were carried out by the workshops by professional trainer Danuta Bener and agriculture expert Maria Staniszewska.

Full access to the presentation on the website www.ccb.se.