1. Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission
What is WISE?
Why WISE?
Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission

2. Situation before 2007 Information Users Public M S EEA Intern. Conv.
COM
Information
Information
Information
Information
Member States
Data
Data treatment

3. Reporting history: lessons learned
Not streamlined
No co-ordination among EU water policy (other directives)
No possibility for
data exchange and
integrated assessment & analysis of water quality situation in receiving waters

4. Purposes for reporting
Common vision by 2010 and +
Information Users
Policy
Effectiveness
Public
M S
EEA
Intern.
Conv.
Useful
Information
COM
SoE
Trends An.
Data treatment
/ aggregation
Compliance
checking
Member States
Data
Purposes for reporting
Drivers for data collection

5. WHAT is WISE ? http://water.europa.eu
The EU bodies (DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) and EU25 Member States, Norway, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the Water Directors’ meeting in November 2003 the:
“Development of a new, comprehensive, shared
European data and information management system for water, including river basins (WISE).
The system should be based on the concept paper and should be fully implemented by 2010”

6. WHAT is WISE ? http://water.europa.eu
Water Information System for Europe is:
An idea/vision (2002)
A concept (2003) – concept paper published on internet
A process (2003 …) – Working group D on reporting for WFD CIS
A co-operation (between EU bodies and MS)
A set of tools (GIS, WFD-prototype, RTD; …)
An internet and ‘single entry’ portal
A definition of reporting requirements
A gateway for (public) information (March 2007)
And furthermore!

7. 2007 OUTPUT INPUT 2010 EOINET water / SoE WISE Public Viewer
WFD
State of env’ment
Member states
Bathing water D
Urban WWD
Report Net
WISE Public Viewer
INPUT
OUTPUT
WFD, UWWD
EIONET Water
Member states
ESTAT
Other policies/ users
WISE Public
2010
ReportNet: Push/ Pull
Proto-cols
WISE: Access
WISE Expert
WISE Analysis

8. WHAT is WISE ? http://water.europa.eu
WISE Implementation plan is flexible 3-stage work programme:
2005: planning
2006: preparation
2007 – 2010: construction
Strategic planning, does not provide all details
Principle: report once use many – harmonise reporting tools
New WISE GIS will provide multilevel GIS infrastructure

9. Integration of other EU water policy areas into WISE
Urban Water Water Treatment – 2007/8
Nitrate Directive – 2008
Bathing Waters Directive –2007/8
Drinking Water Directive –2007/8
Thereafter (to be decided)
ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire on inland waters
Marine protection strategy
Floods directive
Priority substances directive via streamlining with EPER/e-PRTR reporting

10. WISE viewer

11. WISE: reporting of WFD monitoring programmes
Using EEA Reportnet services

12. WISE: reporting of WFD monitoring programmes

13. How it practically should work?
Data flow reporting to WISE through ReportNet, and data visualisation
Reported data from MS after QA/QC
WISE Rules for the data transfer & exchange (e.g.XML)
Reference Database:
-WFD, UWWTD, EIONET water (SoE), BWD, DWD, Estat, etc.
WISE rules
WISE rules
ReportNET: common place to report the data via internet
Data visualisation WISE Public
Member State
Internet
(Internet)
Reports
Compliance-check exercise
Other analysis of reported data

14. Advantages reporting on WISE for BWD:
To automatise reporting process and make it electronic & through internet access for uploading new data&information
Quicker feedback on validation of quality of reported data
Technical possibility for data exchange
Interactive maps with zooming and searching possibilities for bathing water quality
Possibility of integrated analysis of quality of receiving waters at MS level, River basin level, etc.
An integrated view on pressures and impacts:
Combination of data on
monitoring sites for water quality,
monitoring of bathing sites,
location of discharge points from urban waste water treatment plants, etc.

15. Summary of the status of bathing waters in 2006 bathing season
Summary of the status of bathing waters in 2006 bathing season

18. http://water.europa.eu Useful references On water policy at EU level:
On bathing water:
On WISE:
On CIRCA:

19. Thank you very much
for Your attention !