7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 1 The EIONET-Water network of the European Environment Agency

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 2 EEA institution and mission: The EEA is the EU body dedicated to providing sound, independent information on the environment... timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers and the public. European Environment Agency (EEA)

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 3 Help the Community and member countries make informed decisions Become an independent analyst, assessor and information provider Build bridges between science and policy Coordinate the European environment information and observation network (Eionet)...to support policy processes and inform the public Role of the EEA

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 4 EEA Member Countries

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 5 EEA NRC NRC NFP ETC 1 Agency 5 Topic Centres NFPs ~ 300 national institutions … is a collaborative network of the EEA The EIONET network

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 6 Air and Climate Change Nature Protection and Biodiversity Terrestrial Environment Waste and Material Flows Water European Topic Centres (ETCs)

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 7 National Layer: Annual deliveries from EIONET countries European Layer: Working databases at ETC Partners G L RE Q M EEA Data Service WWW Reference Waterbase M E Q G L R From national monitoring To European data warehouses Data Service - Waterbase

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 8 EEA focus Information NeedsQuestions to answer  Status of Europe’s Waters ( Inland, Transitional, Coastal and Marine ) How is it? (Nutrients, pesticides, heavy metals, ecological quality )  Time trendsIs it getting better or worse?  Prospective analysisWill the policy target be achieved?  Pressures on the environment ( Human, Industrial, Agricultural )  DiagnosisWhat is causing the problems?  State of Action on policiesAre they working towards target?

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 9 EEA 5-year state and outlook reports EEA Signals EEA Reports EEA Briefings EEA Technical reports EEA Fact sheets (total: 37, water: 9) EEA Multimedia publications Information services on the internet EEA Products

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 10 Relationship between EIONET-Water and reporting for WFD A number of WFD Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) Working Groups with strong ETC/EEA involvment WFD CIS Working Group on Reporting (WG2D) is taking the lead in developing a shared Water Information System for Europe (WISE) Group chaired by the Commission State of Environment Reporting (SOER) led by EEA Water Framework Directive (WFD)

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 11 To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information which will provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE) that meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level. WISE The WFD compliant monitoring network will be the fully representative EIONET-Water network Reporting: 2006Business as ususal (regular EIONET delivery) 2007EIONET is replaced by WFD reporting through WISE SOER

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 12 SOER data validated; From national, subnational Data centres Output Compliance checking SOER- Analysis Assessment Inform public WISE Data linked to WFD Data on quantity, quality, ecological status, classification of water bodies Data from other Directives e.g. IPPC, Nitrates and UWWT Directives. National SOER data to meet national needs I ) Central River Basin Data RBD III ) Data Flow REPORTNET Eionet-Water Input data frome MS Com- pliance data validated; From national, local Data centres II) GIS component of WISE – Catchmant data base CCM V) - Assessment..Further Assessment tools to be developed... IV) DB Emissions EPER and other emission data System / Tool Components in future  decentralised but integrated International conventions Integration to be developed, monitoring data TCM waters from marine conventions, dater from river conv. WISE Concept

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 13 EIONET-Water “the process by which the EEA obtains the information on water resources (quality and quantity) it needs to answer questions raised by its customers”. Priority Data Flow for the EEA is endorsed by EEA Management Board and NFPs

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 14 Data collected through EIONET-Water Rivers, lakesNutrients, organic pollution indicators and hazardous substances GroundwaterNitrate, ammonium, dissolved oxygen, hazardous substances and pesticides Transitional, Coastal and Marine waters Nutrients, chlorophyll and hazardous substances + Hazardous substances in biota and sediments Water quantityprecipitation, river flows and renewable water resources

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 15 Technical Guidelines EUROWATERNET Quantity - Technical guidelines for implementation: Technical report No 99 EUROWATERNET: Technical guidelines for implementation in transitional, coastal and marine waters: Technical report No 97 EUROWATERNET Technical Guidelines for Implementation Technical report No 7 Data Dictionary

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 16 Country evaluation - SMILIES At least 2 out of the following criteria are met: 1. More than 75% of sites identified and described, OR 2. Delivery of hazardous substances data, OR 3. Provision of a response to data validation questions. 1. Timely data delivery 2005 to national repository, and 2. Data delivered in the requested format, OR long time series (more than 10 years) for phosphorus, nitrogen and oxygen available. Delayed data delivery under Eionet-Water data collection (i.e. after the delivery deadline). OR Timely delivery, but delivered data are not fulfilling basic quality criteria. No data delivery under Eionet-Water data collection Rivers, lakes

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 17 SERBIA & MONTENEGRO Data flow name Remark EWN-1: River quality Data delivered on time but not in the requested format. Only short time series delivered. No response to data validation questions provided. No hazardous substances data provided. EWN-2: Lake quality Data delivered on time and in the requested format. Only short time series available. No data on hazardous substances available. No response to data validation questions provided. EWN-3: Groundwater quality Data provided on time, but not in the requested format. General descriptions and quality data provided. No data on pesticides and hazardous substances or saltwater intrusion data provided. No GIS data provided. EWN-4: Water quantity N/A Data delivered with delay (17 November 2005) and in the requested format. ME-1: Marine data No data delivery in Source:

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 18 Eionet-Water Annual update 2006 update ( : From 28 July to 31 October 2006 Technical specifications for requested data sets and information contained in Data Dictionary Data delivered to EEA Central Data Repository Thank you for the on-time data submission (rivers, lakes, quantity)!

7-8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 19 Thank you for your attention!