1. on Priority Substances Strategic Coordination Group
Progress Report
on Priority Substances
Strategic Coordination Group
Brussels, 11 March 2008
Madalina DAVID - Unit D.2 – Protection of Water and Marine Environment

2. Key points Review of the list of Priority Substances Quality Standards
Data collection
Results of the test run
Quality Standards
Guidance development – mixing zones
Follow-up

3. Review of the list of Priority Substances
Monitoring data collection (deadline 07/03/08)
Overall situation AT  IT
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File delivered *
File delivered, import in the database needed
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File delivered, small clarification
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File delivered, technical discussions 
File promised, but not delivered 
No file

4. Summary situation: database content (28 Feb 08)
surface water
20 Member States
8 801 stations
5 water body types
sampling
analysis
850 substances

5. Prioritisation
First step: strategy of prioritisation based on monitoring data (INERIS)
Second step: develop a strategy for medium and long term reviewing of priority substances list (JRC-TCS)
exposure predictions
hazard predictions

6. Preliminary results of the test run
These are the results of a test run based on data delivered by 9 MSs only
high evidence of risk to or via the aquatic environment, but may be not a widespread problem though

7. Quality standards EG-EQS is led by JRC-TCS and UK
role and organisation of the subgroups
progress reports
deliverables
Technical Guidance Document for EU-wide and national EQS derivation  to be reviewed by scientific committee
EQS for the list of priority substances for Water, Sediment and Biota

8. Mixing zones
Background document (INERIS): how MS can delineate the administrative mixing zone in order to ensure the protection of the aquatic life and human health and how could be meet the EQS in the rest of the water body
Proposal from some MS to develop new guidance on how to deal with mixing zones:
UK and NL offered to develop papers describing their national approaches

9. Follow-up -1 Data collection and Prioritisation (short term)
on going technical discussions with some data providers to solve last problems
treatment of data in central database: March 2008
prioritisation ranking test: April 2008
final results of the prioritisation: 4th WG E meeting
the central database : will be transferred to WISE and the EEA  restriction requests from the MS

10. Follow-up -2 Prioritisation Strategy – for long term
UK will propose a new scheme by April 2008 and run a test by June 2008
Results: discussed at the 3rd EG-EQS meeting in June 2008
EG-EQS
Guidance - first draft
Rapporteurs meeting
3rd EG-EQS meeting
March 2008
June 2008
Sept 2008

11. Follow-up -3 Mixing zones: UK and NL: volunteers to offer assistance
General
comments have been requested in writing: 17 March 2008
Workshop on diffuse pollution, organised by The Netherlands: May 2008
3rd meeting of EG – EQS, organised by the JRC-TCB: June 2008
Workshop on emission controls, organised by the Commission and EUREAU: September 2008
4th meeting of WG E: 15 and/or 16 October 2008

12. Thank you for your attention!