The territorial impact assessment (TIA) of the European Water Resilience Strategy, conducted as input to this report, aims to support the drafting of the European Committee of the Regions’ (CoR) opinion entitled ‘Turning the tide – A local and regional roadmap for water resilience’, which is based on the European Commission’s Communication on the European Water Resilience Strategy of 4 June 2025. 

The opinion was adopted at the CoR plenary session of 4-5  March  2026.  The  assessment  focused on a key aspect of the strategy, namely the ‘water efficiency first’ principle introduced by the Commission’s recommendation accompanying the strategy.