1. Progress report Working Group D - Reporting SCG meeting May 2008 Unit D.2 Water and the Marine - WFD Team DG Environment, European Commission

2. Contents Overview of activities and outlook
Updated article 3 and 5 reporting sheets
Reporting of water status in 2010
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

3. Overview of activities
WISE “package” to be presented to the Water Directors 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
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

4. WFD reporting guidance
Elements to consolidate:
Agreed 2007 and 2010 reporting sheets
Updated art 3 and 5 reporting sheets (presented for agreement at this meeting)
Reporting of water status in 2010 (presented for agreement at this meeting)
Reporting sheet for groundwater directive
First draft available to be distributed soon to WG C and D for comments in writing; some minor overlap with 2010 reporting sheets is expected and will need to be solved in the consolidation process
Reporting sheet on economics
First draft expected after summer, to be consulted through WG D
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

5. Reporting schemas
Following consultation of draft RBMP schemas, a need for consolidation has been identified in order to
Incorporate changes linked to new elements, basically the revision of article 3&5 reporting sheets
To the extent possible, streamline, simplify and avoid duplication of information
Based on the reporting experience so far
Some key experts from Technical Group and Reporting will be invited to a meeting on this issue (tentative 11 June in Prague, back to back to WISE TG)
The schemas will be then distributed for consultation after summer, finalised by the end of 2008 and tested in 2009
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

6. Some key activities of the WISE technical group
Participation: EEA (lead), DG ENV, ESTAT, JRC, MS, consultants
GIS guidance
Updating the 2003 guidance document
Main technical building block for WISE development, including specifications for reporting of geographic data
Concept paper and road-map towards WISE as a distributed system in 2015
Link to INSPIRE, WISE-SDIC
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

7. Any comment so far?
In particular on the process towards the WISE “package” to be presented to the Water Directors 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
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

8. Revised article 3 and 5 reporting sheets
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

9. Main purpose of the revision
Some requirements for the first reporting of administrative arrangements and pressure and impact analysis become obsolete
2005 reporting sheets already identified “additional information that could be requested in 2010”
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

10. No open issues identified
Process
Two Drafting Groups
Discussed at Working Group D 31/3-01/4 and comments sent afterwards in writing (see summary of comments)
Versions distributed for SCG show track changes since versions presented at WG D
No open issues identified
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

11. Revised art 3&5 reporting sheets
The SCG is invited to
Discuss and agree the reporting sheets
Agree to send them to the Water Directors for endorsement without discussion
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

12. Reporting of ecological status in 2010
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

13. WFD foresees reporting of the status class of water bodies
Background
This issue was left open in the 2010 reporting sheets endorsed by Water Directors in 2007
WFD foresees reporting of the status class of water bodies
1 water body = 1 status class = 1 colour
Proposal widely supported at the ECOSTAT Classification Workshop and WG D meeting
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

14. Main objectives of the proposal
In addition to the presentation of overall status, enable the presentation in WISE of maps at aggregated level (i.e. sub-unit or RBD) based on information from the various quality elements. This will allow a separate presentation of the situation in terms of chemical pollution or hydromorphological impacts, avoiding an overall too negative and not very informative picture that may result from the presentation of the overall status only.
Overcome the difficulties on comparability that result from the lack of full intercalibration.
Provide qualitative information on confidence on classification
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

15. Main elements of the proposal
Retain the requirement of the WFD
1 water body = 1 status class = 1 colour
…but in addition provide information on what’s behind the status class, i.e. information on quality element level and confidence
Most of the information is already reported through the monitoring programmes, e.g. the quality elements that are monitored
This proposal would allow building impact maps based on information from various quality elements, although this would be done at aggregated level (i.e. RBD or sub-unit)
No information on status will be displayed at water body level based on individual or a subset of quality elements
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

16. Reporting of ecological status
The SCG is invited to
Discuss and agree the concept presented
Agree to send it to the Water Directors for endorsement without discussion
Agree to take into account the proposal in developing the 2010 reporting schemas
Notes for the Speaker:
More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

17. Thank you for your attention