1. Intercalibration Decision and Technical Report
Ecostat, Brussels, October 2006

2. Draft Commission Decision
version 1 – 20 September 2006

3. DRAFT by DG ENV Commission Decision establishing the values for the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise in accordance with Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Preable – legal basis
Decision:
H-G, G-M boundaries for national monitoring and classification systems are established in the annex.
In setting the boundaries for national classification schemes MS shall take into account the results of the intercalibration exercise.

4. Annex: Results of the intercalibration exercise
Water category
Geographical Intercalibration Group
Description of types that have been intercalibrated
Countries participating in the intercalibration
INTERCALIBRATION RESULTS
Biological Quality Element
National methods intercalibrated
Results

5. Example of Draft Annex contents
INTERCALIBRATION RESULTS (Central Lakes)
Biological Quality Element
Phytoplankton (Chlorophyll)
Results (in mg/L Chlorophyll a, growing season mean values)
Type L-CB1
Type L-CB2
Type L-CB3
Mean value
Range of values
Reference value
3.2
6.8
3.1
2.5 – 3.7
High-Good boundary
5.8
10.8
5.4
4.3 – 6.5
Good-Moderate boundary
10.0
8.0 – 12.0
23.0
21.0 – 25.0

6. Current draft Annex contains results of
Rivers: Alpine GIG macroinvertebrates
Lakes: all GIGs phytoplankton (chlorophyll-a)
Coastal: not included yet
Contents to be discussed in River/Lakes/Coastal sessions

7. Draft Outline Technical Report
22 September 2006

8. Technical Report outline
General introduction
GIGs and types
General discussion
Part 1 – Rivers
Section 1 – General Part
Section 2 – Macroinvertebrates
1. Introduction
2. Methodology and Results
2.1 Northern GIG
2.2 Central-Baltic GIG ……
3. Discussion
Section 3 – Macrophytes
…..
Part 2 – Lakes
Part 3 – Coastal-Transitional
Contents of approved
final Milestone report

9. Current draft Technical Report contains:
Rivers: Alpine GIG macroinvertebrates
Lakes: all GIGs phytoplankton (chlorophyll-a)
Contents to be discussed in River/Lakes/Coastal sessions
It is proposed that all results will be reported in this format