Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 1 Future Work of Eurostat in the domain of Water Statistics 2007 Eurostat Water Statistics Meeting Jürgen Förster, Eurostat E3

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 2 Harmonisation with existing EU legislation UWWTD:  cooperation on data collection (questionnaires)  use of UWWTD data for pre-filling of JQ-IW  problem: coverage of agglomerations < 2000 pe WFD:  encourage and support aggregation of statistics at river basin level

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 3 JQ-IW 2008  Launch in May  Deadline in September

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 4 IT developments Transfer of data to Eurostat:  use eDAMIS (single entry point)  development of eDAMIS Web-Forms Dissemination of Water Statistics to policy makers and the general public:  cooperation with the EU data centre for water (EEA)  development of direct integration into WISE (access of WISE technical tools, e.g. map viewer)

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 5 Consideration of legal cover for Water Statistics  Consultation of EU countries yielded limited feedback (7/27 – 4 positive, 3 neutral/with reservations)  Eurostat 5y work programme contains objective to bring core statistics under legal cover  develop proposals/scenarios and consult within Eurostat / Commission  present and discuss state of play at Eurostat Water Meeting 2008

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 6 Publications Contribute Water Statistics elements to  Eurostat Pocketbooks  Eurostat Yearbooks  publications with partners  planned overview on environment statistics draft genuine Water Statistics publications (e.g. SIF) present Eurostat Water Statistics at IWA Conference

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 7 Grants  Grants Water Statistics foreseen in the draft Eurostat budget for 2008 (pending adoption)  thematic focus on aggregation of statistics at river basin level  other topics possible as well

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 8 Cooperation with Partners Cooperation within EU:  Group of 4, common WP with the EEA Cooperation with other International Organizations  JQ with the OECD  IWG-ENV / subgroup water statistics

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 9 Eurostat internal workflow Recruitment of an assistant for Water Statistics is currently underway! Expected improvements at JQ level:  more timely data validation  more detailed feedback to countries

Directorate E: Agriculture and environment statistics; statistical cooperation Unit E3: Environment statistics 10 Thank you for your attention!