1. Meeting of Water Directors Reporting, WISE and SEIS
1/2 June 2006
Item 3.1
Reporting, WISE and SEIS

2. Content
Shared Environment Information System (SEIS)
Updates on WISE development – implementation plan/launch 2007
Progress/Planning in Reporting WG
Conceptual approach on compliance checking and “compliance indicators”

3. G3 SEIS Group: Peter Wicks, Hugo de Groof, Meropi Paneli
Towards a European Shared Environmental Information System in Support of Sustainable Policies
Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate
European Commission, Directorate-General Environment
G3 SEIS Group: Peter Wicks, Hugo de Groof, Meropi Paneli
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WFD Strategic Coordination Group, Brussels, 15 May 2006

4. The Challenge
Improve availability and quality of information needed to develop and implement Community environment policy
Reduce administrative burden on Member States and EU institutions & modernise reporting
Develop services and applications that all of us can use and profit from.
The SEIS is to support policy development, implementation and monitoring at local, regional to global levels
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European Commission – DG Environment- Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate

5. What is the SEIS? A deep blue sea……..
a common infrastructure, rules & tools for data sharing to ensure that data can be easily located, accessed and exploited by a wide range of users
cost-effective and coherent monitoring and modelling to ensure adequate provision and quality of the required data
updated and streamlined reporting and monitoring obligations
agreed by European Policy Review Group (EPRG), July 2005
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European Commission – DG Environment- Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate

6. Infrastructure and rules
INSPIRE: improving availability, accessibility and interoperability of spatial data sets and systems.
Common architecture and tools for reporting: coherence between different reporting systems, better exploiting technology and economies of scale (Group of 4, Technical arrangement on Data Centers)
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European Commission – DG Environment- Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate

7. Actions to streamline monitoring
Key role of Thematic strategies and cross-cutting policies, e.g.
Biodiversity: Streamlining European 2010 Biodiversity Indicators
Water Information System for Europe (WISE): to cover all water related information
Soil: framework for sharing and exchange of information
Marine: improved knowledge based upon effective monitoring and assessment
Environment-Health information system
Air Pollution
Support of 7th Framework Programme including GEO & GMES
Streamlining of indicators to make downstream monitoring more efficient
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8. To result in: Actions to make legal requirements coherent
Review of reporting requirements at EU and international
level
To result in:
streamlining of monitoring/reporting in upcoming policy proposals
possible proposal(s) to repeal /streamline reporting
make existing policies “SEIS compliant” (e.g. WISE, CAFE)
European Commission – DG Environment- Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate
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9. SEIS and WISE
WISE:
Water-related component of INSPIRE on European level
Shared information system of water-related data available on European level
Model for other thematic Data Centers?
Cross-cutting issues need to be addressed
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European Commission – DG Environment- Sustainable Development and Integration Directorate

10. WISE - recent achievements
WISE User Workshop 15/16 December 2006
Input prototype online (http: //wise.jrc.it) – letter to Water Directors – Feb 2006
Preparation of Article 8 reporting tool started, testing after summer
WISE Implementation Plan
Public viewer prototype developed by EEA (http: //dataservice.eea.eu.int/wise)

11. WISE Implementation Plan 2006-2010
A „living“ document reflecting the discussion bewteen the main developers DG Environment, Eurostat, Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agencyon the system development
- Key principles (Chap. 1 and 2)
Project management (Chap. 2 and 3)
Functions (Chap. 3)
Architecture (Chap. 4)
Tasks to be adressed (Cha. 4 and 5)
Data to be included (Chap. 5)
Timing (Chap. 5)
The access limitations etc. Is handled in the WISE portal user administration.
The resulting flash application(s) made available at the client PC will be dependent on the user credentials.

12. WISE perspective Optional data 20?? Extension data 2010 Core data 2006
* includes all WFD compliance data - Art. 3, 5, 8, 13 and intercalibration
Optional data
(link to other IT system – decentralised)
20??
Extension data
(Construction Phase in WISE IP)
2010
Core data
WFD*, UWWD,
EIONET Water
2006
(Preparation Phase)
Other compliance data (nitrates, bathing, drinking, marine, flood protection), statistical data, research
ICPDR
OSPAR
EPER
PRTR
others
Rhine
National
systems
ICES

13. WISE – next steps
MS to submit Art 5 data
Review/update process for Art 3 data later in 2006, MS will be contacted by consultant
Prepare public launch, last data acceptance 31 October 2006
Establishment of WISE Technical Group led by EEA
Work on WISE Implementation Plan has started
Art. 8 data submission only through WISE – development of rules and procedures document needed

14. Next steps
SoE reporting – first documents for Nov. 2006
GIS – coding finalised by June 2006
Start developing WISE GIS guidance (complementing GIS guidance)

15. 2010 RBMP reporting
Start discussion on 2010 RBMP guidance in compliance group – July (focus: PoM and env. obj.)
First draft of 2010 guidance in Oct. 2006
Progress report on next WD meeting
Increase more systematic approach for defining data needs on the basis of “compliance indicators”

16. Steps of compliance checking (current thinking)
Report communicated?
Start legal
procedure No
Yes
If no completion
All parts of reports complete and clear?
Clarify
with MS No
Yes
Update and completion
Is report compliant for key issues/compliance indicators?
Halt
assessment
Yes No
Is report compliant after
in-depth assessment?
Halt
assessment
Yes No
Decide upon follow up
Verify
assessment
Clarify
with MS
Start legal
procedure

17. Compliance indicators – example water bodies
Assumption:
it is more likely that larger water bodies lead to failure of the WFD objectives – too small water bodies will be prevented because of administrative costs 3 5 6 7 8 1 2 4
Member State
Indicator 1: Number of river water bodies related to river basin district size
Data needs:
total number of water bodies
area of river basin districts
Indicator 2: Average size
(river length) of water bodies
Data needs:
agreed river network (GIS)
river length of water body
area of river basin districts 2 5 4 8 7 1 3 6
Member State
Use of results:
setting of priorities and sequence of in-depth assessment
matching extent of assessment with available resources
In-depth assessment considering typology and methodology

18. Sequence of in-depth assessment
Outcome of assessment of compliance indicators?
High priority
Sequence of in-depth assessment
Member State not compliant
Member State maybe compliant
Member State compliant

19. Conclusions – RBMP reporting
“compliance indicators” and statistical information determine most of the data needs – agreement on ”comparable sub-units” necessary
MS are requested to send copy of their RBMP which is prepared for national purpose and public participation – no harmonised format envisaged
In addition, informal data exchange through WISE based on 2010 reporting sheets – voluntary commitment
WISE should enable in 2010 minimum data submission but easy data availability (inter-operability)