1. Monitoring network development for the WFD in The Netherlands: State of affairs Jos Timmerman RIZA

2. Some figures : 1300 Waterbodies, 40 types, still under discussion Only very few natural waters Most waters thought to be at risk in 2015 Lakes, rivers, transitional waters and coast Managed by 37 watermanagers (27+ 10) Divided in 4 catchment areas : Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt and Eems

7. Monitoring Guidelines ready for ecology and chemical substances Discussion on number of waterbodies to be monitored for ecology Most of the watermanagers are already monitoring chemicals In particular fish monitoring new to many watermanagers Minimum frequency has been chosen

8. Example: Points of discussion for Biological Monitoring Artificial en Heavily modified : what will be the objectives? How to aggregate waterbodies? How to deal with protected area’s and Groundwater bodies? Which objectives are leading? Cost efficiency, what is reasonable? Quality of measurements and statistics