1. WISE Implementation Plan
Balázs Horváth
DG ENV Water Unit

2. WISE - what for? “Report once, use many” The water pillar of SEIS
WISE is
Implementing the water related component of INSPIRE at EU level - and promoting INSPIRE at MS level
A formal compliance reporting tool – no more papers!
A shared information system of water-related information at EU level – one stop shop for all water related information
A platform for cooperation – between DGs and institutions and also with Member States
A harmonised and streamlined system for water data

3. Keys for success Member States contribution
data and expertise
WISE as a driver to develop the national information systems
Joint effort with EEA, JRC and ESTAT (Go4) – WISE IP is the plan of Go4 cooperation
Sustained effort and commitment of all partners – long term project

4. Achievements
Reporting under all water directives and SOE integrated into WISE (except drinking water, partially)
WISE is a well known “brand”, reference for European information on water, supported by Member States and stakeholders
A number of tools, regularly updated:
A common entry portal
Web pages
WISE viewer
Eye-on-Earth
…and significantly
stimulating the
development of
national information
systems

5. And where are we going? 2. WISE Implementation Plan 2011-2015 (i)
Support for the Blueprint for Safeguarding Europe’s waters 2012
Focus of on the input side → needs to focus on the output and on analysis
Develop the water quantity component (WSD and floods)
Develop the climate vulnerability component
Expand WISE with information on important drivers including e.g. use of water by different sectors, etc
Extend WISE to use other data and information than that reported by MS: results of modelling studies, projects, assessments done by EU institutions, etc. This may involve other types of web communication tools in addition to what is currently used

6. And where are we going? 2. WISE Implementation Plan 2011-2015 (ii)
Involving more partners (GMES, RTD)
Cooperation with other sectors (BISE, CC-CHM)
Cooperation with other institutions (river and marine conventions)
Further streamlining and simplification (no double reporting!)
INSPIRE based WISE – decentralisation
Development and consolidation of new reporting streams (Floods, Marine)
Making WISE more useful for everybody…

7. Priorities 2011-2015 in terms of WISE content
Marine
Floods
Water Scarcity and droughts and Water efficiency
Climate vulnerability
Consolidation/improvement of existing reporting streams

8. Datasets development Development of new datasetsFD
MSFD
Water accounting
WS&D indicators
Further development of existing datasets
WFD
Bathing WD
UWWTD
Nitrates D
DWD
SoE – WaterBase
Eurostat water statistics (better integration in WISE)

9. Priorities in terms of infrastructure, services and processes
Continue to develop WISE as a distributed system in line with INSPIRE as part of SEIS
Improvement of functionality on the output side (access and exploitation of data)
Improvement of data viewers / queries
Searchable functionality (intelligent browsing, metadata catalogue to be able to search within all WISE resources)

10. Next steps 2. WISE Implementation Plan will be finalized soon
The final draft will be circulated before and presented in the next meeting of WG D on Reporting for information and comments (WG D next meeting: September)