Water Information System for Europe Working Group F - Floods Brussels, 19 October 2007 Violeta Vinceviciene/Joachim D’Eugenio European Commission, DG Environment Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, WFD Team

Principles of reporting To check compliance with the requirements of specific articles of the Directive To carry out preliminary assessment of the situation in the Member States To carry out further detailed analysis (where additional data may be required) To compile statistics for its own needs and to inform the European Parliament To create an European-wide picture to inform the public

Lessons learned  purpose of improvement Reporting: Not streamlined No co-ordination among EU water policy (other directives) No possibility for data exchange and integrated assessment & analysis of water quality situation in receiving waters

Situation before 2007 Information Users Public M S EEA Intern. Conv. COM Information Information Information Information Member States Data Data treatment

Purposes for reporting Common vision by 2010 and + “Report Once, Use Many” Policy Effectiveness Public M S EEA Intern. Conv. Useful Information COM SoE Trends An. Data treatment / aggregation Compliance checking Member States Data Purposes for reporting Drivers for data collection

Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission http://water.europa.eu Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission

WHAT is WISE ? “Development of a new, comprehensive, shared The EU bodies (DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) and EU25 Member States, Norway, Bulgaria and Romania agreed on the Water Directors’ meeting in November 2003 the: “Development of a new, comprehensive, shared European data and information management system for water, including river basins (WISE). The system should be based on the concept paper and should be fully implemented by 2010”

WHAT is WISE ? WISE Implementation plan is flexible 3-stage work programme: 2005: planning 2006: preparation 2007 – 2010: construction Strategic planning, does not provide all details Principle: report once use many – harmonise reporting tools New WISE GIS will provide multilevel GIS infrastructure  building block for INSPIRE Support data integration and content interoperability along the WISE IP

2007 OUTPUT INPUT 2010 EOINET water / SoE WISE Public Viewer WFD State of env’ment Member states Bathing water D Urban WWD Report Net WISE Public Viewer INPUT OUTPUT WFD, UWWD EIONET Water Member states ESTAT Other policies/ users WISE Public 2010 ReportNet: Push/ Pull Proto-cols WISE: Access WISE Expert WISE Analysis

Integration of other EU water policy areas into WISE WHAT is WISE ? Integration of other EU water policy areas into WISE Urban Water Water Treatment – 2007/8 Nitrates Directive – 2008 Bathing Water Directive –2007/8 Drinking Water Directive –2007/8 Thereafter starting in 2008 ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire on inland waters Marine protection strategy Floods directive Priority substances directive via streamlining with EPER/e-PRTR reporting

WISE IP

http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/

WISE viewer: WFD

From European level to stations Weser

WISE map and data access: Full access at http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/ River Basin District view simple, regional, overview Thematic view medium details, thematic Expert view complex, full functionality, all Access to and download of tabular data Document libraries Beta services to establish WMS connections

Structured information on research and development projects WISE Projects Structured information on research and development projects Extension to relevant LIFE, INTERREG and other projects planned Developed by two RTD projects (HarmoniCA, SPI-Water) Full access at http://wise-rtd.info/ Floods directive related projects can already be included

WISE in the wider context Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and INSPIRE Air Soil Water WISE Agri- culture Climate change Others …

WISE – success factors Joint ownership and leadership of DG ENV, EEA, ESTAT, JRC The co-operation of the Member States EU27 and the EEA member countries All Working Groups incl. WG F Int. river commissions Definition of core data set against which reporting is made (decentralised set up with central reference data base) WISE conceptually fully integrated in wider environmental reporting discussion (incl. INSPIRE, etc) Provision of access to all information types Numerical data (raw), ecological status (computed), thematic maps, reports, downloads, documents (e.g. methodologies) WISE is a complex process to manage, it needs positive commitment

Useful references On water policy at EU level: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/ On WISE: http://water.europa.eu On CIRCA: http://circa.europa.eu/Public/irc/env/wfd/library