1. Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS
Information needs
– links between WFD and Eionet, and how data flows will be further facilitated
Steve Nixon, WRc

2. Presentation Water Framework Directive Reporting Eionet-Water WISE-SOE
Streamlining compliance and SOE data flows

3. 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

4. Commission requires information to check compliance with the relevant EU legislation
It requires information enabling it to:
Ensure data are plausible
Ensure data are consistent
Conduct cross-references and cross-checks on data (especially in International River Basins)
Ensure the Directive has been implemented in a harmonised way.

5. Commission also requires
information on State of the Environment and trends (SoE), and on implementation of measures to allow it
to determine whether existing policies are adequately protecting the environment and
to identify where further measures may be needed.

6. Reporting under WFD Article 3 - due 22 June 2004
Article 5 - due 22 March 2005
e.g. Characteristics of River Basin Districts (identification of water bodies)
Article 8 - due 22 March 2007
Summary report on monitoring networks operational end 2006
Member States reports

7. Eionet- water
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?)

8. Eionet-Water
River
Stations

9. CSI 20 Nutrients in freshwater
Are nutrients and organic pollution decreasing in our freshwater?
Assessment of trends at the country level – Orthophosphate 1992 to 2002

10. EIONET-water adaptation to WFD
WFD –requirements
- Charact. for RBMD /Water bodies (spatial represent.) - aggregated information on type specific quality classes
- surveillance 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

11. 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).

12. The challenge
Integration into WISE with streamlined reporting e.g. between Articles 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

13. EEA Assessments
State of, and trends, in the water environment – Core set and other indicators
Broader assessments of specific water related issues e.g. eutrophication
Assessment of impact of specific sectors (e.g. agriculture) on water, perhaps based on conceptual models such as water accounts
EEA aims to make these assessments more representative (of each catchment and subcatchment within each river basin district in a country)

14. Criteria for the monitoring sites to be used for EEA/SOE assessments
Representative monitoring sites covering
All water categories (groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters)
All types of water body
Complete range of statuses present
All sizes
All types of pressure
Different sites for different quality elements
Sites may be from surveillance, operational and other monitoring networks
Annual monitoring may be undertaken at the sites for some of the determinands

15. Rivers: Difference in numbers of surveillance monitoring and Eionet-Water sites

16. Reporting of SOE data and information
Data will in principle be reported at the site level
Site level data may then be aggregated spatially and/or temporally in ways appropriate for the assessment being undertaken e.g. at water body level
Reporting at site level will ensure maximum flexibility in how data are subsequently compiled, aggregated and analysed by the EEA
Number of different relationships between monitoring stations, quality elements measured at the station and the water bodies they represent
Need supportive and interpretative information on how sites relate to water bodies and groups of water bodies

17. Options for the treatment of data before reporting
Vary between quality elements and reporting sheets
Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with aggregation of data from the sub-sites associated with the site
Depth average for deep lakes (with surface values)
Width averaged for rivers (with certain conditions)
Countries can still report sub-sites if they so-wish (e.g. Danube)
Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with NO aggregation of data from sub-sites
Disaggregated, individual sample data for each monitoring site and sub-site

18. Draft Reporting Sheets for SOE data and information
16 drafted
12 of those currently in, or partially in, Eionet-Water and Data Dictionary
4 on biological quality elements not in Data Dictionary
16 require future development
Sheets for marine waters to be discussed with EMMA group

19. Streamlining of reporting - Geographic information
Monitoring site
Links to compliance reporting sheets on monitoring (Article 8)
Unique monitoring site code linked to unique water body code and unique codes for each water body within a group
Need not be reported again for SOE
However will be required for those sites included in SOER but not in WFD monitoring networks
Article 5
All water bodies
Unique code
Coordinates of centroid of water body
Shape/GML files of the water bodies

20. Further process for reporting sheets
Final draft by beginning 2007
All sheets drafted so far
Proposal for further development and list of issues to be clarified for undeveloped sheets
First draft of agreed sheets (basic set around old Eionet-water data flow) for German water Directors and summer EEA MB meetings
 May meeting of NFPs and strategic coordination group
Further development of technical implementation in WISE together with realisation Article 8 reporting until September 2007
Task 4 and 5
Final guidance for WD and EEA MB in Nov. 2007

22. Streamlining of reporting Process
Article 8 submissions will be via ReportNet
Amend ReportNet processes (voluntary) to support Compliance reporting (obligatory)
Amend workflow to include compliance checking step.
Increased validation requirements
Improved reports functionality
Creation of European dataset

23. Thank you for your attention!!