Updated information on integration of EU water policy into WISE SCG meeting 14-15 May 2008 Violeta.Vinceviciene@ec.europa.eu Unit D.2 Water and the Marine - WFD Team, DG Environment, European Commission

Bathing Water Directives (76/160/EEC & 2006/7/EC) Annual EC Bathing Water report  publication on 02/06/08 DG ENV web site http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/index_en.htm WISE web site: geo-information on WISE map viewer & data viewer http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/wise-viewer/wise-viewer-flash?mapid=bathing&apptype=simple New BWD - 2006/7/EC: Meetings with MSs on 23/04/08; 26/06/08;30/09/08: reporting sheets (links to WBs of WFD), IT formats in Reportnet; Reporting process with new IT technical arrangements will be ready by 30/09/08 Annual reports on BWD at EU level will be published by EEA starting from 2009 Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC) Reporting process through WISE / Reportnet ends by 1 July 2008 Next steps: 2008-2009: QA/QC; EU-wide (production database) Visualisation on WISE viewer 2009-2010: Streamlining of NiD with SoE reporting Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) Reporting sheets agreed in 2007 Ongoing work in 2008: Implementation of IT formats into WISE/Reportnet by 20/06/08 Meeting with MSs 20/06/08 on technicalities of reporting Reporting process starts 01/06/08 until 15/02/09 Next steps: 2008-2009: QA/QC; EU-wide (production database) Visualisation on WISE viewer Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EC) Status on UWWTD Questionnaire-2007 on art.15 : 20 MS reported Missing reports: EL, IRL, UK, PT, PL, MT Data as reported by MSs will be published on WISE viewer on 02/06/08 Ongoing work in 2008: (internal) IT Technical implementation of UWWTD questionnaire into WISE/Reportent ready by end 2008 for next reporting exercise to be launched in 2009 Meeting with MSs foreseen in October 2008 Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

Other activities on WISE: New water policies: Marine Strategy Directive (MSD): concept of WISE – Marine for comments since February ’08 by 20 June’08 GWD, Floods Directive covered by WG C & WG F activities First steps streamlining reporting among ENV and ESTAT : Streamlining reporting between Estat/OECD JQ-IW and UWWTD Q2007 Research on possibilities what should be visualised on WISE viewer from Estat/OECD JQ-IW Technical improvement of WISE functionalities Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

Proposal for a WISE workshop To bring together experts from the various water policies to discuss common interests and horizontal issues linked to WISE development WFD, UWWTD, bathing water, drinking water, nitrates... 1 day workshop Autumn 2008 – back to back to WG D reporting or independent – to be confirmed Notes for the Speaker: More information on the Directive, the implementation process and also the guidance documents are available on the internet.

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