Summary of activities & next steps from the 4th Intercalibration Workshop

IC network selection process Instruction ‘manual’ for selection of sites for IC network / incl. Geographical IC groups, Common surface water body types/ pressures/ quality elements selected for Lakes, Rivers, Coastal and Transitional Waters” prepared and communication coordinated by EEWAI Draft distributed for comments to WG & Experts: 9 April Communicate with your experts! We prefer only one response per country! Comments expected by: May 1 to email: EEWAI@jrc.it Final ‘Manual’ distributed together with metadata questionnaire to all WG & experts on 15 May

Timetable for IC selection process Questionnaire sent to MS & CC May 15 MS & CC provide metadata End of July Expert evaluations of metadata Sep-October Meeting of ECOSTAT WG Late October IC draft register ready November 20 Meeting of Art 21 Comm December 4-5

Drafting groups 3) Guidance for IC exercise (start later/ september) 1) Classification (start: ASAP) nominations by 15 April to: silvia.kerzmar@uba.de 2) Harmonization/ Standardization state-of-play (start: ASAP) Coastal expert (based on on-going work of Coast gr) Inland waters expert/ former monitoring gr expert CEN- representative Commission/ JRC nominations by 15 April to : eewai@jrc.it 3) Guidance for IC exercise (start later/ september) nominations by 15 April to: eewai@jrc.it

Ecological Status WG: Meetings in 2003 Kick-off of ECOSTAT WG, in Brussels July 1-2 Drafting group on Classification June 3 Drafting gr. Classification & Eutrophication Sept. (tbc) IC sites selection Experts meetings Sept-Oct. 1) rivers & lakes, 2) coastal waters (TBC) ECOSTAT WP (IC draft register, final agreement on classification paper) at JRC/ Ispra Week 43 (20-24 October - to be confirmed)

Accession countries involvement Accession countries (Experts & WG members) will receive compiled site selection manual for comments as MS representatives - they need to join the process as others Baltic countries meeting this week - WG leaders (JRC) will present output of this meeting ICPR meeting next week - Austria will present Odra river int. commission meeting next week Other AC outside these meetings will be contacted & informed separately by WG leaders (JRC) all AC will need to join expert groups & WG JRC will fund participation of CC experts in one of the workshops in 2003 JRC/ EEWAI will be focal point for information for AC CC