1. Project 2.7 Guidance on Monitoring
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Project 2.7 Guidance on Monitoring

2. WG 2.7 Monitoring Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
WG 2.7 Monitoring
C I S - WFD

3. Strategic Co-ordination Group 29/30 April 2002 Bruxelles Timetable

4. Guidance on Monitoring for the Water Framework Directive
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Deliverables
Common understanding of the monitoring requirements under the Water Framework Directive
Guidance on Monitoring for the Water Framework Directive .

5. Future events Strategic Co-ordination Group 29/30 April 2002 Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Start June 2001
Second Seminar Working Documents Roma, January 2002
( Common understanding and Guidance Monit first revision)
- 23 and 24 May 2002 Workshop in Bruxelles on : presentation of Common Understanding. Preliminary presentation by WP coordinators of the structure of the Guidance document on monitoring
June 2002 Presentation of Common Understanding and first draft on Guidance on Monitoring to Water Directors’ Meeting
-September ^ WG Seminar in Copenhagen. First intermediate version of Guidance on Monitoring document needed for Pilot Basin testing.

6. Strategic Co-ordination Group 29/30 April 2002 Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Common understanding of the monitoring requirements under the Water Framework Directive
6. How often and when should monitoring be undertaken
7. How should monitoring be undertake
Annex 1 Preliminary interpretation of Risk, Precision and Confidence
Annex 2 Summary of existing national monitoring programmes
1. Aim of the paper
2. Requirements of the Directive
3. Objectives of monitoring for WFD
4. Where should monitoring be undertaken
5. What should be monitored

7. Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Common understanding of the monitoring requirements under the Water Framework Directive?
 Comments of experts give a complete overview about points that still need to be agreed to reach a common understanding.
The “lack of a Common Understanding” reflects MS different approaches to monitoring and geography

8. Main Points for Further Discussion
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Main Points for Further Discussion
It needs to be shorten
Scope of guidance: Not the biological parameters or all quality elements
Surveillace monitoring: only good and high status
Investigation monitoring (detailed or very general criteria ?)
Clarification of supporting in terms of Annex V concerning physicochemical and hydromorphological parameters in assessment of ecological quality
Risk based approach to monitoring- hoe effective will Annex II assessments be in identifying water bodies at risck of failung environmental quality objectives in the absence of surveillance monitoring

9. Main Points for Further Discussion 2
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Main Points for Further Discussion 2
 Size of surface water body covered by surveillance and operational monitoring
- size typology in Annex II ( rivers >10 km2, lakes > 0.5 km2) only applies to those bodies at risk (operational monit.)
- less than 10 km2 might be required for a coherent and comprehensive overview within RBD
- representative smaller lakes (ponds) included
- water body size not the issue- issue is what is a significant pressure
- representative subsamplews of same type and status

10. Main Points for Further Discussion 3
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Main Points for Further Discussion 3
 Groundwater: all water bodies or significant water bodies (uses and links with surface waters)
Categories of waters:
-transitional waters not present in (a) contry(ies)
-wetlands : only mitigation neasures, not monitoring requirements (included in monitoring network)
Operational monitoring : stations in all water bodies at risk and stations representing groups of water bodies from same/similar pressures
Quality assurance: CUP or Guidance?
Directive monitoring frequencies are adequates?: as a minimum, too low, to high, no

11. How to finalise the work?
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
How to finalise the work?
1.             Discussion and outputs from SCG meeting
2.            Proposals to include comments in a short CUP text (May 2002); specific technical issues to be included in Guidance
3.           Discussion and agreement on final text with other WG experts (joint workshop May 2002 , Bruxelles)
4. Final CUP for Water Directors

12. 1. Aim of the paper Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
1. Aim of the paper
To establish a common understanding between members States and The Commission on the requirements for monitoring under the WFD

13. 2. Requirements of the Directive
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
2. Requirements of the Directive
Surveillance and Operational Monitoring
SURFACE WATERS
ecological and chemical status
Objectives
Water bodies covered
Location of monitoring sites
Duration of programme
Quality elements
Frequency of monitoring
GROUNDWATER
chemical and quantitative status
Objectives
Water bodies covered
Location of monitoring sites
Duration of monitoring programme
Parameters

14. 3. Objectives of monitoring
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
3. Objectives of monitoring
SURFACE WATERS: coherent and comprehensive overview of ecological and chemical status (classification), compliance with EQS, water bodies at risk, changes in response to applied measures
GROUNDWATER: realiable assessment of the quantitative status and coherent and comprehensive overview of chemical satus, detect long-term induced upward trends in pollutants.

15. 4. Where sould monitoring be undertaken?
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
4. Where sould monitoring be undertaken?
1. The size of water bodies included in the monitoring requirements according to category and country (coastal and transitional waters)
2. The size of surface water bodies for surveillance monitoring
3. Water bodies for operational monitoring (bodies at risk from significant point and diffuse source pressures and significant hydromorphological pressure)
4. Reference conditions
5. Intercalibration
6 Groundwater : all water bodies or groups (which are relevant?)
7. Protected Areas

16. 5. What should be monitored
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
5. What should be monitored
1. Quality elements, chemical substances and other determinants.
Substances: identify significance in terms of quantities
2. Surveillance monitoring of surface waters :
biological, physicochemical and hydromorphological elements
3. Operational monitoring of surface waters:
4. Groundwater: quantitative level and chemical parameters

17. 6. How often and when should be monitoring undertaken?
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
6. How often and when should be monitoring undertaken?
1. Surface waters : frequency of monitoring in surveillance and operational monitoring (biological, physicochemical and hydromorphological elements) to provide a realiable assessment and an acceptable level of confidence and precision
2. Groundwater: sufficient to allow assessment of quantitative level and detect impacts (abstractions and discharge).
To assess direction and rate in transboundery groundwater bodies
3. Level of risk, confidence and precision

18. 7. How should monitoring be undertaken
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
7. How should monitoring be undertaken
Guidance for Monitoring for the WFD
RIVER
LAKES
TRANSITIONAL WATERS
COASTAL WATERS
GROUNDWATERS
ARTIFICIAL, HMWB
monitor quality elements
select representative sites
site number and monitoring frequency
target sampling for naturale and seasonal variability
assessment of confidence in classification

19. Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
C I S - WFD
Annexes
Annex I Preliminary interpretation on Risk, Precision and Confidence
Precision and confidence in the assessment of surface and groundwater status
Risk of failing environmental quality objectives
Risk of misclassification
Annex II Summary of existing national monitoring programmes

20. Summary of monitoring programmes
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
Summary of monitoring programmes
C I S - WFD

21. Key Issues C I S - WFD Water body concept needs clarification (COM?)
Strategic Co-ordination Group
29/30 April Bruxelles
Key Issues
C I S - WFD
Water body concept needs clarification (COM?)
Transitional waters very reduced contributions (strongly dependent on Ecoregion)
Groundwater relevant bodies, grouping, links surface waters,
Glossary general for all Projects
Wetlands very general criteria?, in which cases?