1. Meeting of Water Directors 2/3 December 2004
Agenda item 2.7 -
Guidance on reporting – Part C:
2005 Reporting Sheets
Report by Working Group 2D
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2. Guidance Current State of play
Guidance for 2004 reporting adopted by Water Directors in November (Parts A and B)
Guidance for 2005 reporting (Parts C) to be adopted
Structure based on reports prepared by international river conventions
Standard format for each section of the guidance (reporting sheets)
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3. Water Director’s meeting, Amsterdam – 2-3 December 2004
Meetings
Working Group 2D 7 June 2004
Drafting Group on Compliance 21 September 2004
Working Group 2D 18 October 2004
SCG 27/28 October 2004
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4. Format for 2005 Guidance (Reporting Sheet)
What should be reported
Why is it needed
How should it be reported
Geographic information
Data
Summary text
Other questions
2005 and draft 2010
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5. Water Director’s meeting, Amsterdam – 2-3 December 2004
2005 Reporting Content
Analysis of the characteristics of RBDs
Surface water (SWB), groundwater (GWB)
Environmental review of human activity
Surface water (SWPI), groundwater (GWPI)
Economic analysis of water uses
Register of protected areas.
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6. Characterisation Summary
Overall method statement
Typology statement
At RBD level
Method statements
Summary of totals (surface type, modified, groundwater type)
Work statement
At water body level
Point definition plus attribute data
Maps
At minimum of 1,000,000 scale
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7. Environmental impact Summary
No maps
Water body Attribution
risk
pressure id, impact type
Pressure indicators
2005 – RBD summary,
2010 – id, xy, type, plus attribution, plus link to water body
River Basin District
Summary statistics (risk, pressure, impacts)
Method statements
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8. Water Director’s meeting, Amsterdam – 2-3 December 2004
Consultation
Most written comments have been incorporated
Some comments were not incorporated – justification was given (see list in document)
Consensus on key elements of the process was reached at SCG and incorporated in the foreword
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9. Water Director’s meeting, Amsterdam – 2-3 December 2004
Draft conclusions
Water Directors are invited to endorse the 2005 reporting guidance (part C)
Water Directors are invited to mandate ther GIS experts to review the GIS aspects of the reporting sheets in order to specify in more detail some technical issues (reporting sheets should be in line with WFD GIS Guidance)
Agreed guidance will be the basis for the development of the next stage of the WISE system
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