Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS Information needs – links between WFD and Eionet, and how data flows will be further facilitated Steve Nixon, WRc

Presentation Water Framework Directive Reporting Eionet-Water WISE-SOE Streamlining compliance and SOE data flows

EEA and WFD communities EIONET /NFPs NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop EEA management Board Working Group D Reporting chair DG Env Steering Group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA) Drafting Group Compliance Chair Dg Env WISE-GIS workshop WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts) Steering Coordination Group/ Water directors EEA Drafting Group SOE/Trends Chair EEA

Commission requires information to check compliance with the relevant EU legislation It requires information enabling it to: Ensure data are plausible Ensure data are consistent Conduct cross-references and cross-checks on data (especially in International River Basins) Ensure the Directive has been implemented in a harmonised way.

Commission also requires information on State of the Environment and trends (SoE), and on implementation of measures to allow it to determine whether existing policies are adequately protecting the environment and to identify where further measures may be needed.

Reporting under WFD Article 3 - due 22 June 2004 Article 5 - due 22 March 2005 e.g. Characteristics of River Basin Districts (identification of water bodies) Article 8 - due 22 March 2007 Summary report on monitoring networks operational end 2006 Member States reports

Eionet- water Agreed priority data flows with annual update on rivers, lakes, groundwaters, transitional, coastal and marine waters Nutrients (nitrate in groundwater, chlorophyll in marine waters) Organic pollution indicators Hazardous substances in water (and in marine biota) Water quantity Using Reportnet tools Validated data and information available through EEA web page We have to bear in mind, that Eurowaternet was originally disigned for a pure quality assessments, The request in proxy pressure information was included in later updates of the EWN guidelines (is this right?)

Eionet-Water River Stations

CSI 20 Nutrients in freshwater Are nutrients and organic pollution decreasing in our freshwater? Assessment of trends at the country level – Orthophosphate 1992 to 2002

EIONET-water adaptation to WFD WFD –requirements - Charact. for RBMD /Water bodies (spatial represent.) - aggregated information on type specific quality classes - surveillance and operational monitoring  adapt networks EIONET-water - quality data - HS in biota - Quantity - (Biological) - (Emissions) Reportnet, CDR,DD Stratification stations representative per MS Conceptual adaptation: -SOE sites to represent River basin /water body - SOE sites to enable type specific assessment Technical - use of Reportnet tools in WISE/ inspire compatible - WISE – GIS Networks restructured for 2006/7 This adaptation work only in the framework of a shared information system Concept report on reporting for water was adopted by the Water Directors’ meeting in Rome on 24/25 November 2003 It includes Compliance information Information on State of, and trends in, the water environment (SOE) State of environment and trend information needed by EEA, the Commission, EUROSTAT and other international organisations

Objective of SOER-drafting group To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information To provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE) To meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level. Objective achievable: Through the progressive modification (and probably expansion) of the EEA Eionet Priority data flows for water (formerly known as Eurowaternet) (incorporating the Reportnet tools) in line with the developing monitoring and reporting requirements of the Water Framework Directive and other existing water related Directives (e.g. Nitrates Directive) and international reporting obligations (e.g. ESTAT).

The challenge Integration into WISE with streamlined reporting e.g. between Articles 3, 5, 8 and SOE-data flow Selecting good monitoring sites for the Eionet-water/SOE-reporting Representative for water body/group of WB Allowing type specific assessments Keep time series from the Eionet water data set as far as possible

EEA Assessments State of, and trends, in the water environment – Core set and other indicators Broader assessments of specific water related issues e.g. eutrophication Assessment of impact of specific sectors (e.g. agriculture) on water, perhaps based on conceptual models such as water accounts EEA aims to make these assessments more representative (of each catchment and subcatchment within each river basin district in a country)

Criteria for the monitoring sites to be used for EEA/SOE assessments Representative monitoring sites covering All water categories (groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters) All types of water body Complete range of statuses present All sizes All types of pressure Different sites for different quality elements Sites may be from surveillance, operational and other monitoring networks Annual monitoring may be undertaken at the sites for some of the determinands

Rivers: Difference in numbers of surveillance monitoring and Eionet-Water sites

Reporting of SOE data and information Data will in principle be reported at the site level Site level data may then be aggregated spatially and/or temporally in ways appropriate for the assessment being undertaken e.g. at water body level Reporting at site level will ensure maximum flexibility in how data are subsequently compiled, aggregated and analysed by the EEA Number of different relationships between monitoring stations, quality elements measured at the station and the water bodies they represent Need supportive and interpretative information on how sites relate to water bodies and groups of water bodies

Options for the treatment of data before reporting Vary between quality elements and reporting sheets Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with aggregation of data from the sub-sites associated with the site Depth average for deep lakes (with surface values) Width averaged for rivers (with certain conditions) Countries can still report sub-sites if they so-wish (e.g. Danube) Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with NO aggregation of data from sub-sites Disaggregated, individual sample data for each monitoring site and sub-site

Draft Reporting Sheets for SOE data and information 16 drafted 12 of those currently in, or partially in, Eionet-Water and Data Dictionary 4 on biological quality elements not in Data Dictionary 16 require future development Sheets for marine waters to be discussed with EMMA group

Streamlining of reporting - Geographic information Monitoring site Links to compliance reporting sheets on monitoring (Article 8) Unique monitoring site code linked to unique water body code and unique codes for each water body within a group Need not be reported again for SOE However will be required for those sites included in SOER but not in WFD monitoring networks Article 5 All water bodies Unique code Coordinates of centroid of water body Shape/GML files of the water bodies

Further process for reporting sheets Final draft by beginning 2007 All sheets drafted so far Proposal for further development and list of issues to be clarified for undeveloped sheets First draft of agreed sheets (basic set around old Eionet-water data flow) for German water Directors and summer EEA MB meetings  May meeting of NFPs and strategic coordination group Further development of technical implementation in WISE together with realisation Article 8 reporting until September 2007 Task 4 and 5 Final guidance for WD and EEA MB in Nov. 2007

Streamlining of reporting Process Article 8 submissions will be via ReportNet Amend ReportNet processes (voluntary) to support Compliance reporting (obligatory) Amend workflow to include compliance checking step. Increased validation requirements Improved reports functionality Creation of European dataset

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