1. CIS General progress report WD meeting 16 June Jorge Rodríguez Romero, Unit D.2, DG Environment, European Commission

2. Some highlights of the period and outlook (1)
Committee work
Updated rules of procedure
Regulatory procedure with scrutiny
Adding Groundwater Directive and Floods Directive
Opinion on Intercalibration decision
Opinion on Chemical Monitoring Directive
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

3. Some highlights of the period and outlook (2)
WG A ECOSTAT (issues not covered in agenda point 2.2)
Eutrophication guidance review expected to deliver for the next WD meeting
Workshop planned on HMWB
Foreseen in ECOSTAT mandate
Covering Good Ecological Potential setting but also designation issues
Germany indicated their intention to organise it (tentatively February 2009)
WG C Groundwater
Compliance and trends guidance for next WD
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

4. Some highlights of the period and outlook (3)
WG D Reporting
Preparations of the WISE “package” to be presented to the WD in November
WFD consolidated reporting guidance
Consolidated version of the WFD reporting schemas
New WISE GIS guidance
Concept paper and road-map towards WISE as a distributed system in 2015
Reporting of ecological status
Concept presented at ECOSTAT classification workshop and at WG D reporting, broadly supported
Finally agreed at SCG, green light to proceed with technical implementation
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.