1. 3rd WISE Implementation Plan (2018-2020) Draft version
Stéphane Isoard
Water and Marine – Head of Group
EIONET Freshwater Workshop
14-15 June 2018, EEA, Copenhagen
3rd WISE Implementation Plan ( )
Draft version

2. Objectives of this session
Present the draft 3rd WISE Implementation Plan (Note: you have been provided with an electronic copy).
Present the various viewers that have been developed to facilitate the access to data and information reported by countries.
Collect feedback on the usefulness and scope for improvement in view of finalising the 3rd WISE Implementation Plan.

3. WISE - Water Information System for Europe
Joint initiative of the European Commission and the EEA.
Main partners:
DG ENV, DG MARE (e.g. EMODnet), DG JRC, ESTAT, DG GROW (e.g. Copernicus), DG R&I, RSCs, ICES
EEA and Eionet
Draft 3rd WISE Implementation Plan covering:
Both the freshwater and marine domains
Input and output sides
Short and medium term plans of the partners
Key on-going processes that will affect WISE:
Evaluation and possible reviews of water related directives
Streamlining Environmental Reporting initiative, including the development of Reportnet 3.0.

4. Tableau indicators Daviz
WISE within the MDIAK/DPSIR context
Copernicus
Crowd sourcing
Big Data
Reportnet
Inspire
FME data processing ArcGIS
Tableau indicators Daviz
Web services
EKC Data Centres & Information platforms
Monitoring and Reporting Refit

5. Helping MS** to prepare their reports
WISE within the reporting context - Role of EEA/Eionet in the reporting process
DG Environment 10 step guidance*
New
Legislation
"data collection"
Step 5:
Helping MS** to prepare their reports
Step 1:
Designing intervention logic and reporting products
Step 4:
Explaining the reporting obligations in practice
"data acquisition"
Step 6:
Organising the data submission or harvesting
Feedback loop: lessons learnt
Step 2:
Drafting reporting obligations in legislation
Data management
Feedback loop: update, corrections, re-submissions
Step 10:
Publishing the official report
Step 7:
Ensuring quality of the reported data
Step 9:
Presenting and disseminating results
Step 3:
Preparing implementing acts on reportings
Step 8:
Carrying out data processing and analysis
"data acquisition"
"data dissemination"
"data processing"
DG ENV
With some EEA involvement
Within EEA responsibility
* Adapted DG ENV diagram 2018
** MS means relevant national autority responsible for environmental reporting

6. WISE within the context of the Information platforms managed by the EEA

7. WISE within the EKC (Environment Knowledge Community) context

8. New agreed EKC data and information framework
Former technical
arrangement
Environment Data Centres
Go4
ENV
EEA
JRC
ESTAT
The main scope was to put in place a new working arrangement for the EKC building on the former technical arrangement from 2005 between ENV, ESTAT, JRC and EEA (aka Group of 4).

9. New agreed EKC data and information framework
Former technical
arrangement
Environment Data Centres
Go4
ENV
EEA
JRC
ESTAT
air
resources
bio-diversity
climate
waste
land use
The initial arrangement between 4 partners was built on the principle of a thematic allocation of one or more data centres to each partner.
water
forest
products
soil

10. New agreed EKC data and information framework
Former technical
arrangement
Environment Data Centres
Go4
ENV
EEA
JRC
ESTAT
air
resources
bio-diversity
climate
waste
land use
Over the years, this became unsustainable due to the proliferation of number of ”data centres” to be added (e.g. chemicals, marine, etc) and the shifting policy priorities requiring a more integrated appraoch.
In addition, Go4 got lost in translation about the increasing amounts of European ”data centres”, ”information platforms”, ”knowledge centres”, ”comptence centres”, etc.
As an example, a Forest ”Data Centre” evolved into a ”Forest Information System for Europe” which needs to tap into data sources from different EKC partners and beyond.
water
forest
products
soil

11. EKC New agreed EKC data and information framework New working
arrangement
beyond 2017
EKC
ENV
EEA
RTD
JRC
ESTAT
CLIMA
Data
Data
Data
Data
The new working arrangement will instead focus on interoperability for data sharing between EKC partners.
It will be based on the European Interoperability Framework (EIF) from 2017, and responding to the actions proposed by the Internal Audit Service from 2017 for managing and sharing data on agriculture-environment-climate issues.
Data

12. New agreed EKC data and information framework
New working
arrangement
beyond 2017
ENV
EEA
RTD
JRC
ESTAT
CLIMA
Data
Data
Data
Data
Next four slides illustrate concrete operational examples how different EKC data centres are used as input source for an EKC information platform which is managed by one of the EKC partners.
Example 1 Climate-Adapt: input from CLIMA, JRC and EEA, managed by EEA
Data

13. New agreed EKC data and information framework
New working
arrangement
beyond 2017
ENV
EEA
RTD
JRC
ESTAT
CLIMA
Data
Data
Data
Data
Example 2 IPCHeM: input from RTD, JRC and EEA, currently managed by JRC (discussion ongoing for possible transfer to EEA)
Data

14. New agreed EKC data and information framework
New working
arrangement
beyond 2017
ENV
EEA
RTD
JRC
ESTAT
CLIMA
Data
Data
Data
Data
Example 3 WISE: input from ESTAT, ENV, JRC and EEA, managed by EEA (a specific WISE Marine information platform was launched in 2017)
Data

15. New agreed EKC data and information framework
New working
arrangement
beyond 2017
ENV
EEA
RTD
JRC
ESTAT
CLIMA
Data
Data
Data
Data
Example 4 BISE: input from ENV, EEA, JRC and RTD, managed by EEA
Data

16. EKC strategic actions 2018-2020
New agreed EKC data and information framework
EKC strategic actions
1. Improve data access
2. Promote interoperability
3. Foster shared data architecture
4. Define a common entry point
5. Establish governance structure
Five strategic actions are proposed for the further implementation of the EKC data and information strategy:
1. Improving free and open data access between EKC partners, including data gathered in other areas and relevant for the environment.
2. Promote and use common standards for metadata, web services and data interoperability by EKC partners (e.g. INSPIRE for geospatial data).
3. Foster the inclusion into a shared data architecture of all existing European environmental data from EKC partners which so far are not accessible and/or available for sharing and re-use.
4. Establish a common entry point to environmental data across EKC partners. Option: the use of the existing EU Open Data portal will be evaluated in 2018.
5. Establish a governance structure and principles for EKC data centres and information platforms.

17. 3rd WISE Implementation Plan (2018-2020)
Short, concise and operational document. The main sections of the current draft are as follows:
What is WISE?
Governance of WISE
WISE users and purposes of use
Input side of WISE
Output side of WISE
Workplan

18. What is WISE? Input Output WISE-Freshwater WFD FD
Water industry directives: UWWTD, BWD, DWD
WISE - State of Environment data call
WISE-Marine
MSFD
ICES
EMODNET
Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS)
For details on the timing of reporting, please see the Reporting calendar in Annex III.

19. Governance of WISE
The strategic direction is provided by the WISE Steering Committee, whose members are the services of the European Commission that have a stake in freshwater and marine activities (specifically DG ENV, DG MARE, JRC, ESTAT, R&I) and the EEA.
The operational management of WISE is the joint responsibility of DG ENV and EEA, which lead the development and implementation of the WISE Implementation Plan.
The policy context frames the development and implementation of WISE.

20. WISE users and purposes of use
1st cluster
Policy makers at European, national, regional, local and international levels
Knowledge base for policy implementation and development
Member States' administrations
Effective management of water resources
2nd cluster
Research community
State-of-the-art information on data and assessments
Public or private organisations with activities related to water management
General public
Access to environmental information
3rd cluster
European Commission
Compliance checks/assessments
Knowledge base for policy developments (notably evaluations/REFIT and impact assessments)
EEA
State of the environment assessment
Knowledge base for support to policy implementation and development

21. Visualisation tools, data and map viewers (will be presented in details later)
European waters – assessment of status and pressures 2018 / Data reported under the 2nd cycle of the WFD (2nd RBMPs)
Urban Waste Water / UWWTD bi-annual data reporting
Bathing water quality / BWD annual data reporting

22. Visualisation tools, data and map viewers

23. Workplan 2018-2020 (Draft) Input Output WISE-Freshwater
Upcoming 2018/2019 reporting:
UWWTD
BWD
WFD FD
DWD
Watch list
WISE - State of Environment data call
Water quantity and quality accounts
WFD 2nd RBMPs:
EC Implementation Report and EEA’s ‘European waters – Status and Pressures 2018’
Status and Pressures visualisation tool available online
BWD and UWWTD tableau dataviewer and mapviewer products
Publication of EEA WaterBase
EEA assessments/reports/indicators made available on WISE-Freshwater (e.g. chemicals in water) + dedicated Communication/Dissemination activities to different audiences
Development of mapping/visualisation tools across freshwater and marine directives

24. Thank you for your attention
Stéphane Isoard
Water and Marine – Head of Group
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