Abstract
The European Parliament and Council decided a policy on the protection, an appropriate treatment and management of water field leading on the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD, European Commission, 2000) in October 2000. The WFD obliges Member States to achieve the objective of at least a good ecological quality status before 2015 and requires them to assess it by using biological elements, supported by hydromorphological and physico-chemical ones. The assessment must be done at a basin level and authorities are obliged to follow efficient monitoring programs in order to design integraded basin management plans. Efforts are being made to adapt national programmes for the WFD requirements (Birk & Hering, 2006). In most European countries, river monitoring programmes are based on benthic macroinvertebrate communities (SanchezMontoya et al., 2010).
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