1. Change and adapt the Eionet water data flow to meet WFD requirements
progress since EEA National Focal Point (NFP) meeting Feb 2005

2. Eionet- water - Where we were standing in beginning 2005
Agreed priority data flows with annual update on rivers, lakes, groundwaters, transitional, coastal and marine waters
Nutrients (nitrate in groundwater, chlorophyll in marine waters)
Organic pollution indicators
Hazardous substances in water (and in marine biota)
Water quantity
Using Reportnet tools
Validated data and information available through EEA web page
We have to bear in mind, that Eurowaternet was originally disigned for a pure quality assessments,
The request in proxy pressure information was included in later updates of the EWN guidelines (is this right?)

3. Eionet-Water
River
Stations

4. Meanwhile Reporting under WFD
Art. 3 - due 22 June 2004
Geographical coverage of river basin district (RBD)
E.g. Description of the boundaries of RBD, Main rivers (>100 km2), Groundwaters, Coastal Waters and Statistics relating to RBD
Competent Authorities
E.g. Name and address, Legal status, Responsibilities
Art. 5 - due 22 March 2005
reports on Article 5 requirements
e.g. Characteristics of, and pressures in, River Basin Districts
Art. 8 - due 22 March 2007
Summary report on monitoring networks operational end 2006
Member States reports

5. Purposes for reporting
Common Vision on WISE since 2003
Information Users
Policy
Effectiveness
Public
M S
EEA
Intern.
Conv.
COM
Useful
Information
SoE
Trends An.
Data treatment
/ aggregation
Compliance
checking
Member States
Data
Purposes for reporting
Drivers for data collection

6. EIONET-water adaptation to WFD
WFD –requirements
- Charact. for RBMD /Water bodies (spatial represent.) - aggregated information on type specififc quality classes
- surveillaince and operational monitoring  adapt networks
EIONET-water - quality data - HS in biota - Quantity - (Biological) - (Emissions)
Reportnet, CDR,DD
Stratification; stations representative per MS
Conceptual adaptation: -SOE sites to represent River basin /water body - SOE sites to enable type specific assessment
Technical - use of Reportnet tools in WISE/ inspire compatible - WISE – GIS
Networks restructured for 2006/7
This adaptation work only in the framework of a shared information system
Concept report on reporting for water was adopted by the Water Directors’ meeting in Rome on 24/25 November 2003
It includes
Compliance information
Information on State of, and trends in, the water environment (SOE)
State of environment and trend information needed by EEA, the Commission, EUROSTAT and other international organisations

7. Using the structure of WFD
Water Directors
Steering of implementation process
Chair: Presidency, Co-chair: Commission
Expert Advisory Forum “Flood Protection”
Strategic Steering Group “WFD and Agriculture”
Strategic Co-ordination Group
Co-ordination of work programme
Chair: Commission
Art. 21 Committee
Working Group A
“Ecological Status”
Working Group C
“Groundwater”
Working Group E
“Priority Substances”
“Chemical Monitoring”
“Chemical Monitoring”
Working Group B
“Integrated River Basin Management”
Working Group D
“Reporting”
"GIS” Expert Network

8. EEA and WFD communities
EIONET /NFPs
NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop
EEA management Board
Working Group D
Reporting chair DG Env
Steering Group
(DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA)
Drafting Group
Compliance
Chair Dg Env
WISE-GIS workshop
WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts)
Steering Coordination Group/ Water directors
EEA
Drafting Group
SOE/Trends
Chair EEA

9. National validation of data
WISE
Service Components in future  decentralised but integrated
Data linked to WFD
Data on quantity, quality, ecological status, classification of water bodies
Input data from MS
National validation of data
Output:
Compliance checking
SOE- Analysis and
Assessment
Policy effec- tiveness
Inform public
INSPIRE
National Data
Centres (collection
of data from national and
regional
authori- ties)
I ) Central River Basin Data RBD
Data from other Directives
e.g. IPPC, Nitrates, Bathing water and UWWT Directives.
II) GIS component of WISE – incl. catchment data base CCM
Data from other Sources
e.g. GMES, Framework 4 to 6 Research Programs
III ) Priority Data Flows
Sub-
national
monitoring
and data
collection
IV) Emissions EPER and other emission data
International conventions
Integration to be further developed. Monitoring data from coastal , marine and river conventions. Need for more coordination with activities under Marine Strategy .
driven

10. Objective of SOER-drafting group
To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information
To provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE)
To meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level.
Objective achievable:
Through the progressive modification (and probably expansion) of the EEA Eionet Priority data flows for water (formerly known as Eurowaternet) (incorporating the Reportnet tools) in line with the developing monitoring and reporting requirements of the Water Framework Directive and other existing water related Directives (e.g. Nitrates Directive) and international reporting obligations (e.g. ESTAT).

11. Tasks for the drafting group
Develop guidance on:
What to report, based on old monitoring guidance;
determinands (e.g. physico-chemical, biological and hydromorphological quality elements),
How to process data for reporting/comparability
statistical aspects
Spatial and temporal aggregation,
meta data held within WISE to support the SOE-data
Frequencies (updating EU-data sets  monitoring ?)
Develop proposal for technical integration
Data exchange development of web based interfaces
Use of EIONET reporting tools (Reportnet)

12. Mandate and Tasks Overview
Task 1 basic principles for SOE assessments and relation to WFD reporting
Task 2 – review of existing guidance documents
Task 3 – define the scope of SOE parameter
Task 4/5 – technical implementation and realisation in WISE
completed
completed
ongoing
ongoing

13. The challange
Integration into WISE with streamlined report e.g. between Art. 3,5,8 and SOE-data flow
Selecting good monitoring sites for the Eionet-water/SOE-reporting
Representative for water body/group of WB
Allowing type specific assessments
Keep time series from the Eionet water data set as far as possible

14. Developemt of Eionet-water into SOE-data flow under WISE
How many Eionet-Water stations will you have in your 2007 network?
How does this compare with the previous network?
What will you deliver (in terms of parameters/determinands) in the 2007/2008 water priority data flows to SOE-WISE?
How well does this cover all water bodies of all statuses and all relevant characteristics?