Change and adapt the Eionet water data flow to meet WFD requirements

1. Change and adapt the Eionet water data flow to meet WFD requirements progress since EEA National Focal Point (NFP) meeting Feb 2005

2. Eionet- water - Where we were standing in beginning 2005 • Agreed priority data flows with annual update on rivers, lakes, groundwaters, transitional, coastal and marine waters • Nutrients (nitrate in groundwater, chlorophyll in marine waters) • Organic pollution indicators • Hazardous substances in water (and in marine biota) • Water quantity • Using Reportnet tools • Validated data and information available through EEA web page

3. Eionet-Water River Stations

4. Meanwhile Reporting under WFD • Art. 3 - due 22 June 2004 • Geographical coverage of river basin district (RBD) • E.g. Description of the boundaries of RBD, Main rivers (>100 km2), Groundwaters, Coastal Waters and Statistics relating to RBD • Competent Authorities • E.g. Name and address, Legal status, Responsibilities • Art. 5 - due 22 March 2005 • reports on Article 5 requirements • e.g. Characteristics of, and pressures in, River Basin Districts • Art. 8 - due 22 March 2007 • Summary report on monitoring networks operational end 2006

5. Drivers for data collection Common Vision on WISE since 2003 Information Users Public Policy Effectiveness M S EEA Intern. Conv. Useful Information COM SoE Trends An. Data treatment / aggregation Compliance checking Member States Data Purposes for reporting

6. EIONET-water adaptation to WFD WFD –requirements - Charact. for RBMD /Water bodies (spatial represent.)- aggregated information on type specififc quality classes - surveillaince and operational monitoring  adapt networks EIONET-water- quality data- HS in biota- Quantity- (Biological)- (Emissions) Reportnet,CDR,DD Stratification;stations representative per MS Conceptual adaptation:-SOE sites to represent River basin /water body - SOE sites to enable type specific assessment Technical- use of Reportnet tools in WISE/ inspire compatible- WISE – GIS Networksrestructured for 2006/7

7. Using the structure of WFD Water Directors Steering of implementation process Chair: Presidency, Co-chair: Commission Expert Advisory Forum“Flood Protection” Strategic Steering Group“WFD and Agriculture” Strategic Co-ordination Group Co-ordination of work programme Chair: Commission Art. 21 Committee Working Group A “Ecological Status” Working Group C “Groundwater” Working Group E “Priority Substances” “Chemical Monitoring” “Chemical Monitoring” Working Group B “Integrated River Basin Management” Working Group D “Reporting” "GIS” Expert Network

8. EEA management Board Steering Coordination Group/Water directors EEA EIONET/NFPs Steering Group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat,EEA) WISE technical group(DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts) Working Group D Reportingchair DG Env WISE-GISworkshop NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop Drafting Group Compliance Chair Dg Env EEA and WFD communities Drafting Group SOE/Trends Chair EEA

9. International conventions Data linked to WFD I ) Central River Basin Data RBD Data on quantity, quality, ecological status, classification of water bodies National Data Centres (collection of data from national and regional authori-ties) Data from other Sources Data from other Directives e.g. IPPC, Nitrates, Bathing water and UWWT Directives. e.g. GMES, Framework 4 to 6 Research Programs Integration to be further developed. Monitoring data from coastal , marine and river conventions. Need for more coordination with activities under Marine Strategy . IV)Emissions EPER and other emission data WISE Service Componentsin future  decentralised but integrated Input data from MS National validation of data • Output: • Compliancechecking • SOE-Analysis and • Assessment • Policy effec-tiveness • Informpublic INSPIRE II)GIS component of WISE – incl. catchment data base CCM III )PriorityData Flows Sub- national monitoring and data collection driven

10. Objective of SOER-drafting group • To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information • To provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE) • To meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level.

11. Tasks for the drafting group • Develop guidance on: • What to report, based on old monitoring guidance; • determinands (e.g. physico-chemical, biological and hydromorphological quality elements), • How to process data for reporting/comparability • statistical aspects • Spatial and temporal aggregation, • meta data held within WISE to support the SOE-data • Frequencies (updating EU-data sets  monitoring ?) • Develop proposal for technical integration • Data exchange development of web based interfaces • Use of EIONET reporting tools (Reportnet)

12. Mandate and Tasks Overview completed • Task 1 basic principles for SOE assessments and relation to WFD reporting • Task 2 –review of existing guidance documents • Task 3 – define the scope of SOE parameter • Task 4/5 – technical implementation and realisation in WISE completed ongoing ongoing - 2007

13. The challange • Integration into WISE with streamlined report e.g. between Art. 3,5,8 and SOE-data flow • Selecting good monitoring sites for the Eionet-water/SOE-reporting • Representative for water body/group of WB • Allowing type specific assessments • Keep time series from the Eionet water data set as far as possible

14. Developemt of Eionet-water into SOE-data flow under WISE • How many Eionet-Water stations will you have in your 2007 network? • How does this compare with the previous network? • What will you deliver (in terms of parameters/determinands) in the 2007/2008 water priority data flows to SOE-WISE? • How well does this cover all water bodies of all statuses and all relevant characteristics?