1. New mandates for Working Groups A, C and D including GIS
Meeting of Water Directors
2/3 December 2004
Agenda item 3.2a –
New mandates for Working Groups A, C and D including GIS

2. Working Group A – Ecological Status
Continuation of intercalibration
Supervision on Eutrophication guidance
Harmonisation and monitoring aspects
Organisation, timetable and interim steps described in intercalibration guidance
Link with PRB encouraged
Co-leads JRc, DE, UK will continue
No comments received, no open issue

3. Working Group C – Groundwater
During ongoing codecision process, focus of activities in WG C on information exchange and issues primarily covered in WFD (not Daughter Directives)
Mandate will be revised following the conclusions of the codecision
Activities on protected areas, monitoring, discharges and link to EUWI-MED aspects
Three/four workshops planned for 2005
Groundwater conference 2006

4. Working Group D – Reporting
Key activities: addition of
GIS
Development of WISE
Activity sheets
Guidance for reporting under the WFD: Update of sheet to meet latest developments
Development of part of reporting guidance on monitoring (end 2005) and RBMP (mid 2007)
State of Environment: to be reviewed by drafting group

5. Working Group D on Reporting -Organisation-
Steering Group
(DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA)
Working Group 2D
Reporting
Drafting Group
Compliance
Dg Env
Drafting Group
State of the
Environment/Trends
EEA
Drafting Group
Policy Effectiveness
Drafting Group
Coherence with
other reporting
mechanisms
Drafting Group
Access to
information for
the public
Sub Group
WISE Dev
Sub Group
GIS

6. Working Group D – GIS Expert Network
Revitalisation of GIS experts
Support to WG D – GIS as tool for reporting
Workshops and Drafting Teams
Key issues: coding (ESTAT), common GIS dataset (JRC) and process of reporting (DG ENV)
Work based on drafting teams and workshops - Next workshop in April/May 2005
Comments of GIS experts (workshop 15/11) incorporated

7. New activity on chemical monitoring
New activity to support groundwater and priority substances WGs (joint sub-group)
Issues relating to chemical pollutants provided by WFD (Art. 16, 17 and Annex V) to be addressed by joint experts
Ultimately, development of specific guidance
Draft mandate for discussion NOT agreement
Draft mandate should be further consulted with WG C and EAF PS and ad-hoc workshop of monitoring specialists in Spring 2005
Final decision on mandate on next WD meeting

8. Draft Conclusions
No major open issues identified
Water Directors are invited to endorse mandates for WG ECOSTAT (A), Groundwater (C), Reporting (D) and GIS experts
Water Directors are invited to support the further development of a mandate on “chemical monitoring” and agree to hold an ad-hoc workshop in Spring 2005 – final draft mandate should be presented on next WD meeting