1. Water Framework Directive
Report on GIS Workshop
26 April 2005

2. Background Work to report on A PLEA FOR SUPPORT
Activity Group 1 - Visualisation
Activity Group 2 - Common coding
Activity Group 3 - CCM
SDIC
A PLEA FOR SUPPORT
Very successful
Increasingly important but only meet twice a year
Raise profile with your Water Directors

3. Visualisation
Expert Activity 1

4. Visualisation - Basis of the work
Article V reporting is the start point
Comparing WFD to other reporting
Variation of information provision
Visualisation by information submission
Consideration of the use of CCM
Make recommendations
Identify limits and related issues

7. Heavily Modified (HMWB) and Artificial Waterbodies (AWB)
Waterbodies aggregated on
Austrian planning regions
Austrian waterbodies aggregated on
CCM WSO5 catchments
Waterbodies aggregated on
catchments with 1000 km²

8. Groundwater bodies at risk
Austrian planning areas and
groundwater bodies
Groundwater bodies

12. Activity 1 - Findings Accepted View risk against basins / sub-basins
Use rivers only for context
Accepted best for Member States to define recognisable sub-basins

13. Activity 1 - Mandate
Determine limit of catchment size for visualisation
Agree methods for thematic reporting
Prove use of CCM for WFD reporting
Act as WISE GIS Contact group
Determine need to review GIS guidance doc
Determine tool set required
Timetable
Meet June and September 2005
Report findings November 2005
Increase membership to include
EEA and Eurostat

14. Common coding
Expert Activity 2

15. Activity 2 – Common coding
Agreed outlined benefits and uses of common coding
Final comments to be provide in two weeks
Next output May Position Statement
Principals and purpose
Description of usage and benefits
Then ……definition of preferred coding method July 2005
Review feed back in September 2005
November 2005
Present preferred coding system and way forward in

16. CCM
Expert Activity 3

17. Activity 3 – Way Forward
Activity 3 group awaiting completion of CCM 2 improvement work
First meeting planned for June
Determine range of uses
Visualisation
Normalisation / Harmonisation
Analysis modelling

18. Activity 1- findings for CCM
Define catchments and sub-basins as agglomerations of low level CCM catchments
CCM could be a useful tool to Member States but needs to be improved
Use geometries provided to improve CCM
Rivers, basins, sub-basins
Match catchments to an agreed border definition
SABE
Match CCM rivers to borders
Mark as border rivers

19. SDIC
General

20. Spatial Data Information Community
An INSPIRE SDIC had been defined for the Water Environmental data
Focussed through WISE initiative
Raised by DG Env
To encompass all EU water based initiatives
Supported by DG Env, EEA, EEA, JRC
Remit
To co-ordinate various water related spatial initiatives
Experts drawn from WFD GIS experts in Working Group
Agreed that “volunteer” experts will undertake coordinating role
Spain. Holland, EEA, Ireland, Germany