Meeting of Water Directors Eutrophication Guidance 2/3 December 2004 Agenda item 2.3 – Eutrophication Guidance State-of-play

Starting Point Mandate agreed by Water Directors in Dublin First Workshop on Eutrophication held in Ispra on 14/15 September Invitation to all EU Member States, other stakeholders and NGOs also represented Documents available on WFD CIRCA (folder “E-WGs”, sub-folder “eutrophication activity”)

Workshop conclusions Agreement on: Draft table of contents Integration of two working documents into draft guidance (chapters 1 – 4) Extension of Steering Group Recommendations for: Revision of conceptual framework Checklists for rivers, lakes and coastal/marine waters Future working process

Extended Steering Group DG Environment Joint Research Centre ECOSTAT Leaders (DE, UK) EEA 2 member states (FIN and NL) Assisted by a technical secretariat

Table of contents of guidance Working Title: “Assessment of eutrophication in European water policy”   Draft Table of contents (under discussion): 1 Introduction Overview and common understanding on regulation of eutrophication in EU and international policies Interpretation of WFD ecological status in the context of the impacts of nutrient enrichment Overall conceptual framework for the assessment of eutrophication (Examples for) Classification criteria for the application of the conceptual framework Examples/case studies for the application of the conceptual framework Monitoring Best Practices and harmonisation Recommendations for reporting Wider context, forthcoming tasks and next steps Conclusions

Progress and next steps 14/15 September: Workshop Oct./Nov. Finalisation of workshop documents incl. summary notes and revision of guidance However, revision of the guidance not completed yet. 27/28 Oct: Discussion SCG 2/3 Dec: Discussion on WD 9 Dec 2004: Next steering group to organise follow-up Dec/Jan: Written consultation of revised guidance First half 2005: Next Eutrophication workshop (to be further discussed in Steering Group)