1. WG E on Priority Substances
Progress report of
WG E on Priority Substances
Strategic Co-ordination Group
4-5 November 2009
Jorge Rodriguez Romero
Madalina David
DG Environment, European Commission

2. Content
Overall approach on prioritisation process (outcomes of Expert Group on review)
Technical Guidance on EQS derivation
Guidelines on Mixing Zones identification
Activity on emissions
Proposal for statistical methods
EQSD transposition checklist
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3. Overall approach on prioritisation process (1)
Objective: COM should prepare a new proposal
review of the list of priority substances (Annex X of WFD) as well as corresponding EQSs for water, sediment and/or biota (Art. 8 of EQSD)
amend/establish control measures (Art. 7(1) of EQSD)
by 13/01/2011
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4. Overall approach to prioritisation
(2)
Annex 1: Candidate list of substance (to be review by EG-R)
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5. State of play of simplified risk-based assessment
Monitoring based prioritisation (INERIS)
report finalised and agreed at July meeting of WG E
Modelling based prioritisation (JRC and UK)
universe of chemicals
approach: combine hazard scoring (PBT and vPvB assessment criteria) and exposure scoring (use assessment criteria)
next step: estimate risk ratio (PEC/PNEC) for the substances with the score 1 using a tier tool (ECETOC TRA TOOL)
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6. Starting point: candidate list Annex 1: Candidate list of substance
Simplified RA
PHS
criteria
Art 8
EQSD
Additional
information
RARs
VRAR
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7. Outcomes Expert Group meeting on review (21-22 September, Brussels)
Finalisation of the prioritisation based on modelling (PEC and PNECs)
Draft report on prioritisation based on modelling
End October 2009
End November 2009
Extraction of PECs and PNECs from RARs
October – November 2009
Proposal by WGE members of additional substances for the candidate list using the data sheets
By 20 November 2009
Circulation of updated list of candidate substances and documents for the Expert Group
End of November 2009
Meeting of the Expert Group
Review the list of candidate substances and select the substances for which dossiers will be prepared
Identification of leads for the preparation of dossiers for those substances
Identify substances for which EQS will be derived
26-27 January 2010
support from SCG and WD is expected in order to mobilize Member States resources
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8. Technical Guidance on EQS derivation
Rapporteurs meeting of EG on EQS held in Brussels on October: agree on the final draft guidance
This version of the document was compiled according to the latest comments received form EG-R and WG E as well as based on the results of the tests made by INERIS.
There is only one open issue that need the decision of the SCG on drinking water standards for later discussion
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9. Guidelines on Mixing Zones identification
First draft + methodology for testing: distributed at October meeting of WG E
large scale of discharges across the whole Europe testing is required, BUT… only few Member States and stakeholders
Timetable:
completeness of guideline: 30 November 2009
testing phase: 31 January 2010
Final: version 28 February 2010
approval by WG E: March meeting of 2010
ratification by WD: May meeting of 2010
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10. Activity on emissions
Drafting Group on emissions: 9 September 2009 (Brussels)
Scope: discuss the latest version of the factsheets elaborated on Cadmium, PAHs, Mercury and Tributyltin.
First draft of Cadmium factsheet: October meeting of the WG E
Conclusions:
most of the subsequent measures would appear better tackled at EU level
for all 4 substances is unlikely to reach WFD's environmental objective of zero-emissions
WG E members: send information on the national measures applied and guidance/best practices on remediation
updated version of the factsheets for the all 4 substances will be distributed to the WG E members: end of October (deadline for comments: end of November)
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11. Proposal for statistical methods (percentile calculation)
Bases: Annex I, Part B, 2nd point of EQSD to ensure the acceptable level of confidence and precision for determining the compliance with MAC-EQS
A paper was produced by the United Kingdom
Outcomes of discussions (WG E):
the agreement to move forward the work was not reached
to elaborate and exchange information between Member States on case studies on compliance checking, including statistical methods for assessing compliance
the proposal to develop guidance on the statistical methods for assessing compliance will be re-assessed. If this is the case the SCG and Water Directors will be asked to endorse document produced
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12. EQSD transposition checklist
Deadline for transposition of EQSD: 13 July 2010 (Article 13(1))
First draft: October meeting of WG E (deadline for written comments 9 November 2009)
Scope: check that the transposing texts are reflecting the letter
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13. Thank you for your attention! CIRCA: 7th WG E meeting folder
Next meetings
 DG on Mixing Zones: 9 November 2009 (Brussels)
 EG-R: January 2010 (Brussels)
  DG on emissions: 28 January 2010 (Brussels)
  WG E: March 2010 (Brussels)
 Workshop on WFD River Basin Specific Pollutants Monitoring (exchange of information on current approaches, best practises and identification of need for development): June 2010 (Stresa, Italy)
Thank you for your attention!
CIRCA: 7th WG E meeting folder
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14. Contents of the dossiers
Risk assessment reports, if available
If monitoring data available, fact sheet of the monitoring database (as in and any additional monitoring information that can be made available
If ranking high in the monitoring-based approach:
Results of the a posteriori checking made by INERIS
Additional information and checkings on the reliability and representativity of monitoring data (discussed at EG)
Data sheet WGE(7)-09-05c filled in (although for the first stage discussions the section on EQS will be empty)
Any other additional information brought by COM, MS or stakeholders