SCG Meeting Brussels, 18 February 2005 Agenda item 6d - Water Information System for Europe (WISE) and WG D Reporting State-of-play

Introduction What is the “Water Information System for Europe” (WISE) and where are we? Progress on reporting in 2005 Plans for the WG D on reporting

WISE aims Efficient management of all water-related information at EU level Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs Acces to information / data for various purposes and needs

Common objective 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? The “Water Information System for Europe” is: an idea/vision (2002) a concept (2003) – concept paper published on internet a process (2003 …) – Working Group D on Reporting a co-operation (between EU bodies and MS) a set of tools (GIS, prototype, RTD, …) an internet and “single entry” portal (wise.jrc.cec.eu.int) a definition of reporting requirements a gateway for (public) information (2006)

Water Information System for Europe WISE elements Water Information System for Europe WISE concept Process Tools Components WISE reporting sheets WISE prototype WISE RTD web WG Reporting WISE GIS WISE Compliance WISE GIS experts Reference data WISE / EIONET Water

WISE process Close co-ordination between European bodies (ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) Collaboration with Member States Spin off to linked activities (INSPIRE, GMES, env. Reporting, RTD) Inclusion of new technologies Development of WISE tools (reference data, internet prototype, GIS) Agreement of reporting requirements (reporting sheets)

Current situation Information Users EEA Information COM Information Public/ Stake- holders Member States EEA Internat. Conven- tions Information COM Information Information Information Information Member States Data Data treatment

Purposes for reporting Common vision Information Users Policy Effectiveness Public/ Stake- holders Member States EEA International Conventions WISE COM SoE Trends An. Data treatment / aggregation Compliance checking Member States Data Purposes for reporting Drivers for data collection

WISE in the wider context WISE Environmental Reporting/ EIONET/INSPIRE X-Cutting Issues such as biodiversity and health Air Soil Water WISE Agri- culture Climate Others …

WISE – state-of-play input prototype online WFD reporting 2004 and 2005 (Art. 3+5) defined WFD 2004 reporting tool online 5 MS completed WISE reporting 2004 WISE GIS tool under development Interface for RTD information under development

WISE - next steps and outlook Development of 2005 reporting input template Development of output module (restricted and public-to be launched in 2006) Preparation of WFD reporting guidance on monitoring and RBMP Further development of WISE GIS Integration of other water databases: intercalibration, UWWT, flooding etc. Closer integration of EIONET Water Further development of RTD interface

WG D on Reporting New chairman Meetings scheduled for 27 April and 13/14 October Drafting Group “Compliance” to meet in-between Focus 2005, monitoring reporting guidance (including, where relevant monitoring data to be formally reported in 2010) EEA to start work on “SoE” Group Guiding WISE and GIS work

WG D and WISE Workshop “WasserBLIcK and WISE” starting point for closer co-operation between EU bodies and MS WG D to discuss the establishment of WISE Drafting Group together with GIS Experts in order to exchange “best practices” and ensure “interoperability” of national, IRBD and WISE system. WG D to ensure link to other groups working on the integration of other directives into WISE (e.g. UWWT)