1. National Environmental Research Institute
The Danish Monitoring Strategy for Meeting the Obligations of the Water Framework Directive
Lilian van der Bijl
National Environmental Research Institute

2. My Presentation Concerns
The WFD challenge
Overall principles for the monitoring programmes
The Danish NOVANA programme
Additional monitoring to meet the WFD
Issues to discuss

3. Exciting and Future Monitoring

6. No monitoring without objectives - No objectives without monitoring
International objectives
National objectives
Regional objectives

7. Guiding principles for monitoring
Relevant
Economically feasible
Cost/efficient
Scientific
Flexible
Reveal trends

8. NOVANA aims at
Establishing the national and regional status and trends of the environment
Identifying year to year variation
Distinguishing between natural variation and variations due to human impacts
Identifying the gap between observed status and objectives

9. NOVANA subprogrammes Lakes Watercourses Marine Areas Groundwater
Agricultural Catchments
Point sources
Air quality and atmospheric deposition
Terrestrial habitats
Species

10. NOVANA strategy
Integrated monitoring of environment, habitats and species (HD/WFD)
Few intensively monitored stations - every year - several parameters
many extensively monitored stations - representative monitoring - every 6 years - selected parameters

12. WFD Article 8.2 The programmes shall be operational in 2006
and comprise:
Surveillance monitoring
Operational monitoring
Investigative monitoring

13. DEVANO Extensive monitoring subprograms to
Establish status of water bodies in 1 year
Sites not included in NOVANA
Reduced set of parameters
Lower frequencies

14. DEVANO - monitoring network
Ia) Water body evidently meeting the objective
Ib) Available data indicate no risk
IIa) Water body may be at risk - Lack of data to confirm
IIb) Probably no objective compliance - supplying monitoring/characteristics necessary to confirm
IIc) Water body obviously not meeting the objective

16. Issues to discuss What is a "significant water body”?
What is the needed density of the monitoring sites?
What frequencies are needed to establish long-term changes
Is the Danish strategy for operational monitoring acceptable i.e. 1) a limited number of water bodies and 2) awayting effects of programmes of measures