1. Reporting template for milestone reports
IC Guidance
Annex VI:
Reporting template for milestone reports
Sandra Poikane Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability

3. What is in the Annex VI ? Introduction
Contents of the milestone reports
Overview of deliverables with deadlines
Reporting template
Table - Overview of national methods

4. Introduction
IC groups – to regularly report the progress to the WG ECOSTAT
Reporting milestones
Related to the major steps of the IC flowchart
Linked to the WG ECOSTAT meetings

5. 5 Milestones Milestone 1 (October 2009) Milestone 2 (April 2010)
Milestone 5 (June 2011)
Final IC group reports.
Finalised proposal of class boundaries to be included in IC Decision

6. Major IC steps Organisation Overview of Methods to be intercalibrated
Checking of WFD compliance
Checking of intercalibration feasibility
Collection of IC dataset
Design / application of the IC procedure
Benchmarking: RC or alternative benchmarking
Boundary setting / comparison and harmonization in common IC type

7. Major IC steps - timetable
Organisation - M1 + update
Overview of Methods – M2 + update
WFD compliance - M2 + update
Intercalibration feasibility - M2 + update
Collection of IC dataset - M2 + update
IC procedure - M2 + update
Benchmarking: RC or alternative benchmarking - M3 + update
Boundary harmonization - M3 + update
IC results M4 + update

8. Reporting template 1. Organisation Responsibilities Participation
2. Overview of Methods
3. WFD compliance check
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+ Overview table of national assessment method

9. Results
Milestone reports
Technical report
EC Decision on IC results