1. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) SEIS: “Near Real Time” reporting of bathing water quality data for 2010 season: Data compilation (Item 5b)

2. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Introduction Information about current bathing water quality in Europe Information about current bathing water quality in Europe Data is available on Eye-on-Earth (EoE) portal http://eyeonearth.cloudapp.net Data is available on Eye-on-Earth (EoE) portal http://eyeonearth.cloudapp.net

3. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Current bathing seasonPortal representation 1 (CG), 5 (CI) - Good Sites with lower values than the mandatory and guide values. Those waters have excellent or good quality 4 (NC) - Average Sites where one of analysed parameters has a higher value than mandatory value 2 (B) - Bad sites with higher values than the mandatory values from the Bathing Water Directive. Those waters have poor quality if values for all parameters are inside guide values then status = 1 (CG) - if parameters exceed guide values but are inside mandatory values then status = 5 (CI) status = 5 (CI) - if 1 parameter exceedes mandatory value then status = 4 (NC) - if 2 or more parameters exceed mandatory values then status = 2 (B) - if 2 or more parameters are missing then status = 6 (NS) - not reported to EoE - if 1 parameter is missing then status = 3 (NF) - not reported to EoE Using limit values of the Directive 2006/7/EC for parameters EC and IE. Methodology for status calculation

4. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) EoE statuses are adapted to status classification on national/regional/municipal websites, e.g. EoE statuses are adapted to status classification on national/regional/municipal websites, e.g.

5. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Data reporting Reporting possibilities: by e-mail to bwd@izvrs.si (XLS, XML, CSV… format)by e-mail to bwd@izvrs.si (XLS, XML, CSV… format)bwd@izvrs.si publication of data on the national/regional/municipal websitespublication of data on the national/regional/municipal websites directly to EEA in GeoRSS XML formatdirectly to EEA in GeoRSS XML format Data to be reported: Bathing water location and identificationBathing water location and identification  BWID, BeachName, Latitude, Longitude Sample measurementsSample measurements  Sample date  Directive 76/160/EEC - parameters TC, FC, FS  Directive 2006/7/EC - parameters ConcEC, ConcIE or final bathing water quality status, if reported in GeoRSS XML format (site-specific data)or final bathing water quality status, if reported in GeoRSS XML format (site-specific data)

6. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Reporting Dataflow EyeOnEarth.eu EoE dbImportDB Convert to EoE GeoRSS / XML BWQD Extension MS GeoRSS MS emailMS ms excelMS website ETC - W.mdb MS ??? SqlServer Biztalk Needs human interaction Machine to machine interaction Receive files and push into database Conversion of Access mdb into GeoRSS Peter Kjeld (EEA), April 2009 Simplified methodology for status calculation: three classes Data uploaded on http://observatory.ew.e ea.europa.eu

7. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Country response List of countriesNumber of countries class ACyprus, Greece, Latvia, Romania, Switzerland, Turkey* 6 class BAustria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the UK (Scotland and Northern Ireland) 1212 class CIreland, Croatia 2 class Dthe Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland*, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Slovakia, the UK (England and Wales) 1212 * Turkey: promise to send data by email, but no delivery so far. ** Finland: data sent from one municipality with one bathing water. Country response on participation in SEIS for 2010 class A - no participation from country and no websites with seasonal data found class B - no participation from country, ETC/W provides websites with seasonal data class C - country provides the website link class D - full participation of country, country reports seasonal data by email or national FTP server or directly to EEA in GeoRSS XML format

8. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Current country response, 25 countries CountryDeliveriesFormat% StationsResponse AT12website 99 BE11website 90 BG2website 23 CZ8 xls + website 92very good DE12website 44 DK6website 11 EE4xls 74good ES3website 6 FI2xls 0moderate FR6website 81 HR8website 97moderate HU7website 71 IE4website 95 IT5website 2 LT10xls 95very good LU3xls 100 MT4xls 100 NL9 xls + website 20very good NO4xls 74 PL5website 61 PT6website 90 SE6website 95 SI8ftp 98very good SK4xls 95 UK12 GeoRSS + website 17 (website)very good

9. Date/ event: 4.10.2010, BWD workshop with MS Author: ETC/W – IWRS (Globevnik, Kovačič, Zore, Kirn) Conclusion ProsCons - More countries (12) actively participate than previous year (6) - Data for more countries (25) than previous year (15) - Some website are easy to manage (download of all data at once) - Opened to all countries in Europe (even if using different standards for assessing BWQ as EC) - Some countries not involved - some data ‘closed’- manual download - Some websites have no actual measurements, only statuses (classification of BWs may differ) - BW names on websites can be different as BW names reported to EC The UK is the first country to use fully automatic reporting via GeoRSS New EoE portal developed in 2010 Minor launching problems with the new EoE portal