1. Chemical Monitoring Activity 9° Plenary Meeting Ghent
overview
Mario Carere, Madalina David, Bernd Gawlik
ISS-Italy ,DG Environment EU, Joint Research Center EU

2. CMA-1 (Exchange of best practices)
Guidance on surface water chemical monitoring (Guidance no.19) published on the Europa website at the end of February
Budapest field trial results: in progress
Sediment/Biota Monitoring Drafting Group meeting organized by JRC has been held in Ispra in January. First draft of the guidance sent the 30th of April.

3. CMA-2 (Quality assurance and control)
It is envisage that from May on, a new activity on preparation of a guidance for QA/QC Directive implementation will start and the outcomes of the final report of EAQC-WISE Project are likely to be used as a basis for this purpose.
QA/ QC Directive (legal consultation inside the EU Commission); publication foreseen in june.

4. Activity CMA-3 (Standardisation)
The technical and financial documents are ready and it is expected that the proposal for the new contract will be submitted to DG ENTR
In the mandate are also included sampling methods for phytoplankton and fish, guidance on the estimation of algal biovolume

5. Agenda CMA Ghent-Other Issues
Climate change and chemical monitoring
Science/Policy interface: NORMAN network
Operation in laboratory
Compliance issues
Link with marine strategy
New mandate CMA

6. Agenda CMA Ghent-Other Issues
VISIT TO THE LABORATORY OF THE FLEMISH ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
Afternoon: 6th of May
14-16 pm

7. Link with WG E: database content
Surface water
26 Member States + CH and NO
stations
5 water body types
sampling
analysis
1 168 substances
Source: GIS layer : Official WFD Districts

8. Matrices and fractions (14 567 816 analysis)

9. CMA ( )
Next meeting
Plenary CMA meeting Rome (November 2009).