Intercalibration Decision and Technical Report Ecostat, Brussels, 12-13 October 2006
Draft Commission Decision version 1 – 20 September 2006
DRAFT by DG ENV Commission Decision establishing the values for the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise in accordance with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Preable – legal basis Decision: H-G, G-M boundaries for national monitoring and classification systems are established in the annex. In setting the boundaries for national classification schemes MS shall take into account the results of the intercalibration exercise.
Annex: Results of the intercalibration exercise Water category Geographical Intercalibration Group Description of types that have been intercalibrated Countries participating in the intercalibration INTERCALIBRATION RESULTS Biological Quality Element National methods intercalibrated Results
Example of Draft Annex contents INTERCALIBRATION RESULTS (Central Lakes) Biological Quality Element Phytoplankton (Chlorophyll) Results (in mg/L Chlorophyll a, growing season mean values) Type L-CB1 Type L-CB2 Type L-CB3 Mean value Range of values Reference value 3.2 2.6 - 3.8 6.8 6.2 - 7.4 3.1 2.5 – 3.7 High-Good boundary 5.8 4.6 - 7.0 10.8 9.9 - 11.7 5.4 4.3 – 6.5 Good-Moderate boundary 10.0 8.0 – 12.0 23.0 21.0 – 25.0
Current draft Annex contains results of Rivers: Alpine GIG macroinvertebrates Lakes: all GIGs phytoplankton (chlorophyll-a) Coastal: not included yet Contents to be discussed in River/Lakes/Coastal sessions
Draft Outline Technical Report 22 September 2006
Technical Report outline General introduction GIGs and types General discussion Part 1 – Rivers Section 1 – General Part Section 2 – Macroinvertebrates 1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Results 2.1 Northern GIG 2.2 Central-Baltic GIG …… 3. Discussion Section 3 – Macrophytes ….. Part 2 – Lakes Part 3 – Coastal-Transitional Contents of approved final Milestone report
Current draft Technical Report contains: Rivers: Alpine GIG macroinvertebrates Lakes: all GIGs phytoplankton (chlorophyll-a) Contents to be discussed in River/Lakes/Coastal sessions It is proposed that all results will be reported in this format