1. - Disaggregated data for review of list of Priority Substances
Anita Kuenitzer
CIS WG Chemicals meeting March 2014, Brussels
Waterbase – SoE data on Hazardous substances in Water
- Disaggregated data for review of list of Priority Substances
Bo N Jacobsen Project Manager, EEA
Contact: or 1

2. Update – 2nd issue of ETC/ICM data report
First ETC/ICM data report on HS in European waters published in 2013:
(link)
2nd issue in Eionet consultation spring 2014
Expansion with marine data overview and datasets on lakes
Update covering period
Some QA / data processing issues discovered on Lake and River datasets
Some re-procesing needed
Delay of publication....end 2014

3. Disaggregated data for review of Priority Substances list – state-of-play
Data policy for reporting and dissemination for hazardous substances in water discussed at Eionet freshwater workshop June 2014
Follow up by questionnaire to national focal points (NFPs) and national reference centers (NRCs)
Based on responses received, disaggregated data for groundwater and rivers forwarded to JRC for the review exercise
Still some open QA issues (µg/l unit conversion errors) flagged in Waterbase
Further development at ETC/ICM of methodologies for filtering out data (exclusion) is ongoing
Sharing of experiences from other stakeholders would be useful

4. Mapping of data policies from Eionet SoE hazardous substances in water
Reporting to SoE emissions
Questionnaire to NFPs / NRCs
Country:
Organisation:
Filled in by:
Date:
Monitoring stations in:
groundwater
rivers
lakes
Remarks
Datasets:
current (2012) and historical data
future reporting
publish aggregated (annual average, annual statistics) only A
Made available to Eionet members and Commission Services for analyses, only B
Can be made publicly available C
Only "preferred" substances currently published in Waterbase 1
All substances reported (river basin specific pollutants, ..) 2

5. Responses on data policy from Eionet

6. Process onwards
EEA (ETC/ICM) has developed fiches by country including hazardous substances in SoE and WFD data highlighting data quality issues in the data series. Work in progress:
by countries for clarification and improvement of datasets
by ETC/ICM for methodologies for data filtering / outlier detection.
finalisation of 2nd issue of HS data report for publication by ETC/ICM on web-site
Forward of lakes dataset to JRC for PS list review later this year
Development of more user-friendly interactive data viewer
The existing aggregated SoE datasets on specific hazardous substances is being used on a test basis in IPCheM (Environmental monitoring – water)
Development of IPCheM interactive viewer in progress at JRC