1. Directive 2007/60/EC
Draft concept paper on reporting and compliance checking for the Floods Directive

2. This presentation – contents of paper
Reporting obligations of the Directive
Need for information on flooding at European level
WISE
Visualisation of reported information
Road map to reporting on the Directive

3. Reporting obligations of the Directive

4. Reporting obligations of the Directive

5. Reporting obligations of the Directive -2
Reporting formats for Art 13 = reporting formats for Arts 6 and 7
Technical formats should be adopted at least 2 years before reporting deadlines (Art 11) - Comitology
Making full tools available to Commission and to the public
Need for synthesised information at the European level

6. Need for information on flooding at European level

7. European Commission Needs to check compliance with EU legislation by
Ensuring data are plausible and consistent
Cross referencing and cross checking data (especially IRBD)
Ensuring Directives implemented in comparable way
State of Environment and trends
Europe-wide picture to inform public
Assessment of effectiveness of existing policies – implementation of measures and objectives

9. Reporting to Commission
Reporting sheets describe and formalise information and data required
Why it is needed
How the Commission will use the information reported
Compliance indicators
Detailed list of what information should be provided
Geographic information
Data
Summary text
Hyperlinks to more detailed supporting documents

10. Example of WFD reporting sheet – Competent Authorities

15. Other users needs for information
EEA
Updated climate change report in 2008 with indicators on water quantity, rivers flows, floods and droughts
Recurrence of flood events in Europe in ‘mapping impacts of natural disasters and technological accidents
New topic on disaster management and prevention
Supporting creation of Community Clearing House mechanism for exchanging information on disaster prevention and management and adaptation to climate change

16. Other users needs for information
JRC
European Flood Alert System
Long term weather forecasts
Flood mitigation and forecasting case studies
Natural Hazards Action
Civil Protection
To be completed
DG Regio
European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund
European Union Solidarity Fund

17. Water Information System for Europe

18. WISE
Umbrella term for a wider initiative to modernise and streamline collection and dissemination of information related to European water policy
Agreed by DG ENV, JRC. EEA and ESTAT and Water Directors
Starting point is WFD but intended to cover all water-related information arising from EU Water Policy -STREAMLINING

19. WISE
Is the water related component of INSPIRE though goes beyond INSPIRE as it covers non-georeferenced data and information
Is a formal compliance reporting tool
Provides access to water related data available at European level
Exchange of data and interoperability of systems
Intended as the basis for reporting on Floods Directive

21. Development of WISE
Output side launched to public in March 2007 – WISE Viewer
Input side of system is more complex and demanding and is due to completed in 2010
Aim to operate as a distributed system by 2015
INSPIRE should ensure that spatial data sets and services are interoperable

23. Visualisation of reported information

24. Visualising information in WISE
WISE viewer – public or restricted access to information, subset of whole information held
Pre-processed information for visualisation at different scales
Predefined maps and queries within a web-based interactive interface
Data often aggregated to MS or RBD level

25. Visualising information in WISE
MS information only visualised at the European level at a scale of 1:250,000
Links to nationals servers where more detailed information at larger scales will be visible
Comparability of national information
Interoperability between national servers ?
Colour codes, scales, levels of risk etc.
Multilingual translations of mapping legends
INSPIRE could contribute to this

27. Examples of visualisation of WFD information

31. Visualisation of water bodies not at risk and possibly at risk of failing WFD environmental objectives

32. Summary statistics

33. Visualisation of FD information
Map of RBDs and UoMs
Colour coded according to whether national or international, main geographic and water related features
Historic floods
Occurrence of significant historic floods (number, average and maximum flood extent, average and maximum number of human deaths and displacements, and average and maximum economic costs).

34. Visualisation of FD information
Flood risk areas
Extent of flood risk areas in Europe (area/proportion of RBD/UoMs that are potential significant flood risk areas for different probability of flooding events)
Potential flood risk receptors
Types of risk receptors such as population, type of economic activity and environment potentially at risk from flooding under the scenarios established.
Flood Risk Management Plans
Objectives for flood risk management established by Member States
Flood risk management measures : structural and non-structural measures

35. Road map to reporting on the FD
Concept document – will be discussed with WG F, WG D and WISE SG
Development and agreement of Reporting sheets
Drafting group to be set up at this meeting
Start with Competent Authorities, Units of Management, components of PFRA
Start latter part of 2008
Completed and approved by WDs by mid-2009

36. List of proposed Reporting sheets
Competent Authorities & Units of management
PFRA
Flood maps
Flood risk management plans

37. Road map to reporting on the FD
Development of appropriate tools for first reporting/notification steps
For WFD facilitated by XML reporting schema and EEA Reportnet tools
GIS reported as shape or GML files
Tools to be completed latter part of 2009
Testing during 2010
Completion of Reporting sheets for all other reporting requirements
Latter part of 2009
Reporting formats developed and tested during 2010 and 2011

38. More information : water.europa.eu
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More information : water.europa.eu

39. Visualising information in WISE
WISE Reference GIS datasets provide basis against which comparable statistics and indicators are calculated
Main rivers catchment area >500 km2
Main lakes with surface area >100 km2
Water bodies including transitional and coastal water bodies