1. Intercalibration excersice progress report Presented by Palle Haastrup Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Inland and Marine Waters Unit

2. Issues Status and finalisation of the intercalibration register
Intercalibration process
Guidance development and process planning

3. Numbers of sites submitted for final register

4. Intercalibration register

5. Timetable for finalisation of the register
April 28, 2004: Revised web-based metadata entry opened (4-week delay)
25 May 2004: deadline for adding/ revising intercalibration site entries to the register

6. Rivers (status 26 May 2004)
879 sites
24 countries

7. Rivers: numbers of sites by country (submitted though web interface in green)

9. “List of sites proposed for the final intercalibration register“
Overview of sites submitted by the agreed deadline (25 May):
Submission through web interface
Supplemented by tables where technical problems prevented MS from using the web interface
Tables need to be checked – may contain errors

10. Lakes (status 26 May 2004)
389 sites
21 countries

11. Lakes: numbers of sites by country (submitted though web interface in green)

12. Coastal/ Transitional (status 26 May 2004)
204 sites
18 countries

13. Coast/Trans: numbers of sites by country (submitted though web interface in green)

14. Intercalibration register
Completion of metadata questionnaire before the agreed 15 September deadline

15. Timetable (1) June - Aug. 2004:
Member States submit remaining sites through web interface (JRC-EEWAI)
Member States’ revision and finalisation of the draft register on the basis of the comments of SCG and WFD Committee – deadline 15 September

16. Finalisation continued..
Timetable (2)
30 September: Submission of final register for SCG and WFD Committee (meeting on Oct. 27/28)
November-December 2004: translations
January 2005: Meeting of WFD Committee, decision on intercalibration register (all languages)