1. Marine Strategy Framework Directive DIKE meeting 8 October 2013
Presentation of the UWWTD Structured Implementation and Information Framework
(SIIF) project
Bruno RAKEDJIAN
European Commission
Directorate General for the Environment
unit C.2 - Marine Environment & Water Industry

2. Background Directives Communications
2003/4/EC - on public access to environmental information
2007/2/CE - establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)
Communications
COM (2007) A Europe of Results – Applying Community Law
COM (2008) 46 - Towards a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS)
COM (2008) on implementing European Community Environmental Law
COM (2010) A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth
COM (2012) 95 - Improving the delivery of benefits from EU environment measures : building confidence through better knowledge and responsiveness
COM (2012) A Blueprint to Safeguard Europe's Water Resources
COM (2012) on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020 "Living well, within the limits of our planet"
COM (2013) Regulatory Fitness and Performance (REFIT) : Results and Next Steps

3. centralized management system National UWW website(s)
- Publication of a two-years report with benchmarkings
but
- Not user-friendly websites
- No links with national level
- Very low use of data by experts and public
Current situation
National website(s)
(regulation, compliance, mapviewer, statistic viewer, reports…)
Under-control reporting exercise
but
- Lots of manual exchanges and qualification of data
- The compliance evaluation is a black box
- Long delay to process and managed the information ?
EU websites
(UWW mapviewer, UWW files in water data center, regulation, bi-annual reports, facts and figures,…)
MS level
EIONET
EU level
Current 'data model' with about 230 parameters
centralized management system
2- Transparancy and public access to information
(data, compliance, regulation, links, implementation plan…)
5- more detailed on new projects to be compliant
2 - Transparancy and public access to information (data, compliance, regulation, links…)
5 - more detailed on new projects to be compliant
SIIF
six principles
National UWW website(s)
EU UWW website(s)
3 - Regularly updated of data (with automatic exchanges and qualification)
National
UWW DB
EU UWW DB
Web feature service
1- new "data model" with about 230 useful parameters
4- Decentralised management system
6 - Reduction of administrative burden
6 - Reduction of administrative burden

4. the SIIF project (EC + Pilot Member States)
What we are doing and what we have to do
Assess the current situation
Propose thematic changes (mandatory for all MS)
A new "data model" with parameters useful for the implementation of UWWTD and other relevant directives,
Propose a new IT approach (volontary approach)
To facilitate exchanges and assessment of data,
To facilitate the active dissemination and the interpretation of data at any level
Test new approaches (volontary approach)
Next reporting exercise
Promotion of web developments in some MS
Prepare the transition

5. Expected results of UWW SIIF exercice
More clear, accurate, easy-access and updated information (raw and agregated data, compliance, regulation, implementation plans ..) available to public, NGOs, experts and private companies (civil engineering, water industry, engineering offices…) at EU and national level  decrease in official requests (written, , telephone),
One UWW database available for other uses at EU and national level, possibility to cross the UWW data with the other pressure and quality data for the use of other relevant directives (BD, WFD, MSD,…) and international Convention and Commission,  suppress the need to handle UWW data with other 'data models'

6. Expected results of UWW SIIF exercice
Better overview of the current situation
Better implementation of the EU and national legislation and international Convention and Commission
Better programming of investments
Better programming of Eu regional funds
Better view of the UWW industrial market (infrastructures to build, ressources to provide for the operating,…)
More support from the Commission crossing SIIF exercise, new UWW national implementation plans and Partnership Implementation Agreement
More exchanges between MS to take into account good practices (implementation plan, regulation, …)
INDICATOR  Hundreds (thousands ) of web visitors each day at EU and national level (french UWW website visitors each day)

7. Milestones
Preparatory assessment/consultation phases already started :
11 December 2012 : first SIIF meeting,
24th October 2013 : second SIIF meeting (consultation meeting on the concept paper proposal)
2013 : contract with UBA and IOW to produce a SIIF concept paper with a new datamodel
Progressive incorporation of the new approaches into the reporting system, until 2020 :
January 2014 : definition of SIIF concept paper and proposal of a road map, establishment of the new datamodel compulsory for the 9th reporting exercice and optional for pilot MS for the 8th reporting exercice.
2014 : establishment of the EU node for the IT system at the EEA
2014 – 2015 : pilot SIIF exercises with six MS (CY, IE, LT, LV, PL, SI), including the development of new IT systems at national level
: progressive implementation of the SIIF by other MS
Establisment of new UWW implementation plans and Partnership implementation agreements in link with the SIIF exercice
Development of SIIF exercice by other EU policies (DWD, BWD)

8. Thank you for your attention.