1. The development of WISE and the status of WfD Art.8 submission
Stefan Jensen

2. WISE has been launched on March 22nd 2007…

3. With a strong role of EEA as - European water data centre - provider of thematic information and data in WISE

4. From ”stand-alone” EIONET water to data integration in WISE
New ways of communication!
... from tabular data to interactive maps ...
New integrative viewing and assessment options (merging EU directives)
First time supporting the themes
Information on MyRiverbasin and competent authorities in MS
European water bodies at risk and / or highly modified
Water quality (nitrates, phosphates, Ammonium, BOD) in rivers and lakes
Urban Waste water treatment
European bathing water status
Multiple spatial reference data (Corine Landcover, Image2000,
Digital Elevation Models, GISCO, Teleatlas layers)

5. WISE public viewer: e.g. information from EIONET in WISE
Finland & Bothnian Bay
River stations
Gauging stations
Lake stations
Marine stations

6. From European level to stations
Nitrate levels at rivers stations
Weser

7. WISE map and data access:
Full access at
River Basin District view simple, regional, overview
Thematic view medium details, thematic
Expert view complex, full functionality, all

8. WISE as part of SEIS – first phase snapshot
Strategic level (macro)
Operational level (meso)
Quick wins (micro)
Pilot phase
( )
SEIS concept paper EPRG/MB
Benefits analysis
Inspire transposition phase consultation
GMES/GEOSS links
Budgetary matters (Life+)
EC Communication
Diagnostic visits 38 countries
Enhancements Reportnet
Guidelines national implementation plans
European Data Centres
Water/land/ biodiversity
GHG emissions reporting
Extension ozone web
Environmental Signals

9. WISE principles are SEIS principles
Based on a cooperation of EU institutions and Member States
Information should be managed as close as possible to its source
Distributed WISE nodes – first tests in 2007
Information is provided once and used for many purposes
As of 2007 Reportnet is the WFD reporting tool
e.g.
Information should be accessible to enable clients to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale (e.g. cities, countries, river basins, catchment areas)
Information should be made available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, …
… given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s) (needs to be developed)
European funding mechanisms should focus on delivering cost-effective analytical tools and services that allow coherent and comparable use of SEIS at the European level, between the European and Eionet levels and between Eionet countries.
E.g. HarmoiCA (see projects under

11. Status of WISE Art.8 submission
21 countries reported Art.8 monitoring sites to WISE (currently missing: BG, ET, GR, IT, MT, RO)
Status :
146 Riverbasin districts reported
Mostly XML files reported
PL only GIS format (shape files)
Take a look at

12. Or open a .kml file in GoogleEarth/GoogleMap

13. … and sometimes you see a lot

14. Mapping deliverables – between monitoring networks

15. Mapping deliverables – against water bodies

16. Mapping deliverables – identifying EIONET links

17. e.g. count of SW stations by country*
583 FR
2321 BE
209 HU
384 CY 50 LT
1469 CZ
961 LU 17 DE
8538 LV
558 DK
1079 NL
523 ES
4852 SE
2209 FI
259 UK
12798
*Based on an EEA analysis by Hermann Peifer

18. Summary of Art.8 status Efficient, timely submissions
Many stations submitted (> to date)
Only few Member States missing
Data quality needs to be checked
(positive first visual checks)
EIONET relation only identified in a minority of cases
Final confirmation has to be provided by Member States