1. Water Information System for Europe (WISE) Concept and state-of-play
EEA information based on slides from DG ENV

2. Introduction
Initiated by COM as a new, innovative approach for water reporting under the WFD, phasing out the existing, inefficient paper-based compliance reporting
Based on a concept paper agreed upon by Water Directors, Rome Nov. 2003, setting the scene for one conceptual approach fulfilling several purposes/needs
Aims at developing the water component in a wider system of environmental reporting in a shared information system.
Should include the marine area when data flows are established there

3. WISE long term aim is
Efficient management of all water-related information on EU level
Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs
Acces to information / data for various purposes and needs

4. Current situation Information Users Public M S EEA Intern. Conv.
COM
Information
Information
Information
Information
At the Moment we have some parallelity in processes and data flow; WISE aims in over comming that
Member States
Data
Data treatment

5. Purposes for reporting
Common vision
Information Users
Policy
Effectiveness
Public
M S
EEA
Intern.
Conv.
Useful
Information
COM
SoE
Trends An.
Data treatment
/ aggregation
Compliance
checking
Member States
Data
Purposes for reporting
Drivers for data collection

6. Common objective
The EU bodies (DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) and EU25 Member States, Norway, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the Water Directors’ meeting in November 2003 the:
“Development of a new, comprehensive, shared
European data and information management system for water, including river basins (WISE).
The system should be based on the concept paper and should be fully implemented by 2010”

7. How do WISE develop?
an idea/vision (2002)
a concept (2003) – concept paper published on internet
a process (2003 …) – Working Group D on Reporting
a co-operation (DG ENV, EEA, JRC and MS)
a set of tools (GIS, prototype, RTD, …)
an internet portal for compliance reporting (
to be developed into a common roof to integrate SOE and compliance data flows

8. several MS use WISE for WFD reporting 2004 and 2005
WISE – state-of-play
For WFD reporting 2004 and 2005 (Art. 3+5) defined data requirements and realized in an online prototype at JRC
several MS use WISE for WFD reporting and 2005
WISE GIS tool under development
Integration of EIONET-water as a SOE-stream in WISE under development
JRC will give more Information on the current state of the prototype

9. National validation of data
WISE
Service Components in future  decentralised but integrated
Data linked to WFD
Input data from MS
National validation of data
Data on quantity, quality, ecological status, classification of water bodies, art reporting
Output:
Compliance checking
SOE- Analysis and
Assessment
Policy effec- tiveness
Inform public
INSPIRE
National Data
Centres (collection
of data from national and
regional
authori- ties)
I ) River Basin Data RBD
Data from other Directives
e.g. IPPC, Nitrates, Bathing water and UWWT Directives.
II) GIS component of WISE – incl. catchment data base CCM
Data from other Sources
e.g. GMES, Framework 4 to 6 Research Programs
III ) Priority Data Flows
Sub-
national
monitoring
and data
collection
IV) Emissions EPER and other emission data
International conventions
Integration to be further developed. Monitoring data from coastal , marine and river conventions. Need for more coordination with activities under Marine Strategy .
driven

10. WISE - next steps and outlook on development at EEA
Integration of EIONET Water as basis of SOE-WISE
Requirements for running operational phase of WISE extending on SOE-data and relevant service elements
Cooperation with JRC on additional system components, especially contribution on further development of WISE GIS
Integration of other water databases: UWWT, intercalibration, flooding etc.
First

11. WISE in the wider context Environmental Reporting/
EIONET/INSPIRE
Air
Soil
Water
WISE
Agri-
culture
Climate change
Others …

12. Elements to be defined in further development
Operational WISE
Develop user interface tailored for multiple purpose
Compliance reporting
Intercalibration
GIS-WISE
SOE-reporting – Eionet Water Integration
Service tools mutual data exchange, formats distributed structure, validation procedures
Marine Module – developed under EMMA ?

13. EEA proposal on distributed data infrastructure for WISE fitting into INSPIRE
EIONET
EEA
information services
National
Data
centres
Sub-national
Data
centres
Internet
(Inspire)
User
GMES
Emissions
data
Internat.
Conventions
Data from
other
Directives
CCM

14. EEA information services in operational phase
Application
services
Priority data flows
Map services
EEA Node
Gate keeper
Assessments
Quality assurance
Quality control/
Data distribution
services
Knowledge reference
services
Search & metadata
services
User
EEA access service
(24/7 uptime)
EEA service
monitoring

15. Summary WISE is the best way forward for water-related reporting
Joint process of EU bodies and MS crucial for success
WISE conceptually fully integrated in a wider environmental reporting discussion (incl. INSPIRE)
WISE – prototype can serve as a test case/pilot but the concept needs further elaboration/ clarification
Brainstorming meeting between DG ENV, JRC, EEA and ESTAT at EEA will take forward the development