Water Information System for Europe WG F meeting 16 April 2008 Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, WFD Team

Contents What is WISE? WISE Implementation Plan (WISE IP) WISE Structure, principles Organisation of reporting under EU water legislation within WISE community WISE construction phase: current developments and next steps Success factors WISE viewer - examples

Purposes for reporting Common vision by 2010 and + Information Users 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

WISE concept “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”

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

Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission WISE calendar 2003: development / vision of WISE agreed by WDs 2005: WISE Implementation plan agreed by Go4 22 March 2007: WISE viewer as a gateway of information access on water internet access & ‘single data entry’ portal 2007-2010: WISE construction phase by 2015: WISE as distributed system Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission

How we are developing WISE ? Principles: to work on informal basis through Common Implementation strategy (CIS) for WFD + extension of it to the other EU water legislation and reporting streams on water WISE community: Water Directors => SCG => WG D =====> (see next slide) => WGs and/or Committees for other EU water Directives: BWD, UWWTD, NiD, DWD, etc. WISE Steering group (Group of 4) => WISE technical group

Structure WFD reporting WISE Steering Group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA) Working Group D Reporting WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts) Drafting Group Compliance DG Env Drafting Group State of the Environment/Trends EEA WISE-GIS workshop

How we are developing WISE ? WISE OUTPUT Practical steps: WISE INPUT Visualisation of reported data Reporting obliga-tions (What? When?) Reporting sheets (further specs) Tools for data entry including QA/QC checks Compliance checking (legal) Lead: Thematic Working Group Consultation: Reporting WG Lead: Reporting WG + Thematic WG (if needed) Technical development: GIS experts + WISE technical group

Next steps 2007/8: Integration of ‘old’ / remaining directives (Urban Water Water Treatment, Nitrates, Bathing, Drinking water) 2008: Interlinks with ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire on inland waters (water statistics) From 2008: Concept for WISE as distributed data management system 2008-2010: new legislation Floods directive Marine protection strategy directive Links to EPER/ e-PRTR reporting

WISE implementation plan

Advantages and capacities Electronic reporting for uploading data & information in a structured way Quicker feedback on validation of quality of reported data (QA/QC) Technical possibility for data exchange & interoperability Interactive maps with zooming & searching possibilities Possibility of integrated analysis at various scales Enabling an integrated view on pressures & impacts

WISE in the wider context Water WISE Environmental Reporting INSPIRE & SEIS Air Soil Agri- culture Climate change Others … WFD UWWTD NiD BWD DWD MSD FlD SoE JQ-IW EU water legislation and other EU reporting activities on water

WISE viewer: WFD

From European level to stations

WISE: reporting of WFD monitoring programmes (Art.8)

WISE viewer: Bathing Water

From piecemeal approach to data integration in WISE New ways of communication! ... from tabular data to interactive maps ... New integrative viewing and assessment options First time supporting the themes: Information on My Riverbasin and competent authorities in MS European water bodies at risk and / or highly modified Water quality (nitrates, phosphates, Ammonium, BOD) in rivers and lakes Urban Waste water treatment European bathing water status Multiple spatial reference data (Corine Landcover, Image2000, Digital Elevation Models, GISCO data, Teleatlas layers)

WISE public viewer: e.g. information from EIONET in WISE Finland & Bothnian Bay River stations Gauging stations Lake stations Marine stations

From European level to stations Nitrate levels at rivers stations Weser

Policy relevant trends: Trends on total ammonia

Urban waste water treatment Tertiary treatment (nutrient removal) Secondary treatment Primary treatment No treatment Zoom

Urban waste water treatment Tertiary treatment (nutrient removal) Secondary treatment Primary treatment No treatment

Integration of Urban Wastewater and Bathing Water data

Outlook of future challenges Complete integration of all water-related directives Develop further the input and output functionalities Develop WISE as a distributed system (INSPIRE) Establish links to the national information systems

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