WISE Implementation Plan Balázs Horváth DG ENV Water Unit

WISE - what for? “Report once, use many” The water pillar of SEIS WISE is Implementing the water related component of INSPIRE at EU level - and promoting INSPIRE at MS level A formal compliance reporting tool – no more papers! A shared information system of water-related information at EU level – one stop shop for all water related information A platform for cooperation – between DGs and institutions and also with Member States A harmonised and streamlined system for water data

Keys for success Member States contribution data and expertise WISE as a driver to develop the national information systems Joint effort with EEA, JRC and ESTAT (Go4) – WISE IP is the plan of Go4 cooperation Sustained effort and commitment of all partners – long term project

Achievements 2005-2010 Reporting under all water directives and SOE integrated into WISE (except drinking water, partially) WISE is a well known “brand”, reference for European information on water, supported by Member States and stakeholders A number of tools, regularly updated: A common entry portal Web pages WISE viewer Eye-on-Earth …and significantly stimulating the development of national information systems

And where are we going? 2. WISE Implementation Plan 2011-2015 (i) Support for the Blueprint for Safeguarding Europe’s waters 2012 Focus of 2005-2010 on the input side → 2010-2015 needs to focus on the output and on analysis Develop the water quantity component (WSD and floods) Develop the climate vulnerability component Expand WISE with information on important drivers including e.g. use of water by different sectors, etc Extend WISE to use other data and information than that reported by MS: results of modelling studies, projects, assessments done by EU institutions, etc. This may involve other types of web communication tools in addition to what is currently used

And where are we going? 2. WISE Implementation Plan 2011-2015 (ii) Involving more partners (GMES, RTD) Cooperation with other sectors (BISE, CC-CHM) Cooperation with other institutions (river and marine conventions) Further streamlining and simplification (no double reporting!) INSPIRE based WISE – decentralisation Development and consolidation of new reporting streams (Floods, Marine) Making WISE more useful for everybody…

Priorities 2011-2015 in terms of WISE content Marine Floods Water Scarcity and droughts and Water efficiency Climate vulnerability Consolidation/improvement of existing reporting streams

Datasets development Development of new datasets FD MSFD Water accounting WS&D indicators Further development of existing datasets WFD Bathing WD UWWTD Nitrates D DWD SoE – WaterBase Eurostat water statistics (better integration in WISE)

Priorities in terms of infrastructure, services and processes Continue to develop WISE as a distributed system in line with INSPIRE as part of SEIS Improvement of functionality on the output side (access and exploitation of data) Improvement of data viewers / queries Searchable functionality (intelligent browsing, metadata catalogue to be able to search within all WISE resources)

Next steps 2. WISE Implementation Plan will be finalized soon The final draft will be circulated before and presented in the next meeting of WG D on Reporting for information and comments (WG D next meeting: 28-29 September)