TY - CHAP AB - The requirement of full cost recovery for water services including environmental and resource costs in accordance with the polluter pays principle in Art. 9 EU-Water Framework Directive is a unique provision in the history of the European environmental law. The wording of the provision is a compromise between the Council's and the Parliament's versions that mirrors different conceptual ideas on how to internalize environmental and resource costs. Art. 9 now contains a two-step concept for the achievement of the aim. The uniform implementation of the full cost-recovery calls for common accounting standards for the calculation of financial cost and a common methodology for the estimation of environmental and resource costs on the European level. In Germany, the requirements of the first step are partly fulfilled, but necessities of the second step are not being met at the moment. VL - 7 SN - 978-1-84950-507-9, 978-0-7623-1448-5/1569-3740 DO - 10.1016/S1569-3740(07)07015-0 UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-3740(07)07015-0 AU - Unnerstall Herwig AU - Messner Frank ED - Jon D. Erickson ED - Frank Messner ED - Irene Ring PY - 2007 Y1 - 2007/01/01 TI - Cost Recovery for Water Services According to the EU Water Framework Directive T2 - Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management T3 - Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 347 EP - 383 Y2 - 2024/03/28 ER -