CIS progress June-November 2011: main highlights WFD reporting tools for 2012 ready (see separate info note 1f) Intercalibration (agenda item 2b) Work on WSD indicators (agenda item 2c) Streamlining work WFD/NiD/SoE Workshop on hydropower, Brussels, September 2011 Conference Water pricing in agriculture, Poland, September 2011 Workshop on Climate Change, Water and Agriculture, Madrid, September 2011 SPI activities (see separate progress report): Event on Ecosystem services and WFD, Brussels, September 2011 Information session for the SCG November

EG on Climate Change and Water mandate Overview: Organized by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs in collaboration with the United Kingdom and the European Commission EG on Climate Change and Water mandate Madrid, 22nd and 23rd of September 90 representatives of different Member States Structure: Objectives: identify the knowledge, action and policy requirements to support a sustainable water management in the agricultural sector in the context of climate change challenges enable input into current EU policy developments (ex: CAP post-2013 and the Blueprint) State of the understanding Knowledge gaps Adaptation examples Political tools for adaptation

Recommendations: Monitoring networks - Ensuring long term, geographically broad and coherent monitoring networks. - Preserving monitoring sites with long time series. - Reviewing with caution the investments due the current financial pressures. Use of the information obtained (current evidence, key challenges and evidence requirements) for the next Research Framework Programme. MS should develop simple communications to stakeholders and policy makers about the impacts, challenges and uncertainties of climate change facing water management in the agricultural sector. The EU policies should develop mainstreaming of adaptation through greater explicitness in the identification and evaluation of multi-objective adaptation measures for water management in a long-term effective way.

Water Science-Policy Interface (CIS-SPI) Progress report EUROPEAN COMMISSION RESEARCH DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Directorate I – Environment Water Science-Policy Interface (CIS-SPI) Progress report Water directors – 9 December 2011 F. MARTINI (FRANCE - ONEMA) M. SCHOUPPE (COM - DG RTD)

Quick overview on SPI activities Task 1 Inventory of research and implementation needs from CIS groups Task 2 Available research and research gaps Task 3 Improving transfer and usability of research outputs  Identification and ongoing prioritisation of S&T questions of high relevance to the CIS Involvement of CIS groups With the help of nominated SPI-correspondents Questionnaires in 2010 and 2011 Validation through annual SPI events in Autumn 2010, 2011 and (planned) in 2012  Draft list of needs compiled and communicated to EU and National research programme owners Mapping of FP6-FP7 research projects of relevance to each CIS group Collection of policy briefs from research projects Transfer of available knowledge and project synopses directly to the SCG in 2011 and (planned) in 2012 Ongoing analysis of available research versus CIS needs from Task 1 to validate research gaps  SPI member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group of the JPI on water Recommendations towards improved Science-Policy Briefs (following analysis of existing briefs) Connecting scientists and WFD end users 1st SPI event Sept. 2010 10 round tables on CIS needs 2nd SPI event Sept. 2011 “Implementation of the WFD: when ecosystem services come into play” 3rd SPI event Sept. 2012 (tbc) 10 round tables on CIS gaps Other types of connecting events (e.g. by CIS groups, FP7 support actions, WWF6…) Towards recommendations on good dissemination practices and instruments for water management (EU to local scale)

The water directors are invited to: take note of state of the progress made by CIS-SPI and next steps to make take note of the usefulness of having tasks 1 and 2 of CIS-SPI activity permanent and to consider research transfer tools experimentation continuation; on this basis, CIS-SPI plans to draft a second mandate take note of the importance of SPI to implement WFD as mentioned in the Blueprint document

Documents to be endorsed Technical report on Groundwater Dependent Terrestrial Ecosystems Recommendations for the review of Annexes of the Groundwater Directive* Guidance document on inventory of emissions, discharges and losses of priority substances Concept paper on the intercalibration of Good Ecological Potential to be presented and endorsed under agenda point 2b intercalibration Flood risk management plans reporting sheet * Proposal to add the following footnote to the reference to Directive 91/414/EEC on page 13: “Directive 91/414/EC has been replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, which provides for a definition of "relevant metabolite" in relation to human toxicology and ecotoxicology. This is setting a legal framework for the interpretation of this term. However, additional guidance might be necessary for the implementation of the mentioned regulation as well as the GWD.”