1. Guidance on sediment & biota Monitoring- SCG 5-6th May 2010
Mario CARERE (ISS,Min env Italy)
Valeria DULIO (INERIS, France)
Georg HANKE (JRC, EC)
Stefano POLESELLO (IRSA-CNR, Italy)
Caterìna SOLLAZZO (Mìn Env, Italy)
Madalina DAVID (DG ENV, EC)

2. THANKS TO DRAFTING GROUP MEMBERS
Organisation and Institutes: BAFG, MARLAB, ISPRA(ICRAM), MUMM, RWS, UNEPMAP, MERMAYDE, Finnish EPA, Swedish EPA, Swedish Natural History Museum, Uni-Trier, CEMAGREF, ISSEP, ITM, ISS, CNR-IRSA, JRC, INERIS, NIWA, OSPAR, IT Min Env, Eurometaux, Aquaref, SedNet, MedPOL.
Members: Sara Danielsson; Ian Davies; Kees Kramer; Chiara Maggi; Elisabeth Nyberg; Michael Angelidis; Antonella Ausili; Anders Bignert; Petros Gikas; Per Jonsson; Roland Klein; Jaakko Mannio; Yves Marneffe; Gerrit Niebeek; Markus Quack;Mathias Ricking; Patrick Roose; Birgit Schubert; Ashley Tilghman; Jan Wollgast, Branislav Vrana, Ian Allan, Raphael Demouliere, Lidia Regoli, Maria Belli, Ian Allan, Catherine Muntschy, Peter Lepom, Norman Green, Susanne Heise, Marine Coquery, Anne Morin

3. Aim and Scope of the Guidance (mandate CMA 2007-2009)
Support for MS for the transposition and implementation of Directive 2008/105/EC; follow-up of the CIS guidance n.19 on chemical water monitoring.
The Directive gives possibility to MS to derive EQS for sediment and biota and obliges MS to perform trend analysis on sediment and biota (in line with WFD objectives).
Need for harmonisation with the TGD on EQS derivation.
Support for chemical monitoring in marine-coastal waters where sediment and biota are widely monitored compartments. (e.g. Marine conventions)

4. Drafting Process of the Guidance
: Draft 1 sent to CMA
: Discussion in Gent
: Draft 2 sent to CMA
: Discussion in Rome
31/01/2010: End of Consultation with CMA (Draft 3)
: Draft 4 sent to WG E
15-16/03/2010: Discussion Open Issues and Approval of the guidance at WG E
23 April 2010: Submission to the SCG

5. Collection and consultation of 300 CMA comments

6. Structure of the guidance
Chapter 1: Scope of the guidance
Chapter 2: Terms and Definitions
Chapter 3: Selection of parameters
(Introduction, Selection of Compounds to be monitored in sediment or biota, Table with recommended matrix).
Chapter 4: Sampling Strategy: general requirements
(Statistical considerations, data analysis, QA/QC)

7. Structure of the Guidance Chapter 5 (sediment monitoring)
Para 5.1: Sampling strategy
Para 5.2: Technical aspects of sampling
Para 5.3: Analytical Methods
Para 5.4: Normalisation co-factors

8. Structure of the Guidance Chapter 6 (biota monitoring)
Para 6.1: Introduction
Para 6.2: Sampling Strategy
Para 6.3: Technical Aspects of Biota sampling
Para 6.4: Choice of Tissues for analysis
Para 6.5: Analytical Methods
Para 6.6: Preparation for data analysis
Para 6.7: Environmental specimen bank

9. Structure of the guidance
Chapter 7: Complementary Methods (passive sampling in sediment and in biomonitoring; ecotoxìcologìcal tools)
Chapter 8: Case Studies (France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Finland)
Chapter 9: References

10. Ch. 6 Open Issue - Use of Eel (anguilla anguilla) for biota monitoring
Some Member States commented that eel is an endangered species (e.g. UK, France, NL) and for this reason should not be part of WFD monitoring programmes.IUCN has included eel in the red list (critical endangered specie).
On the other hand, other MS (Belgium) and OSPAR suggest that eel is a suitable indicator of a waterbody contamination and for monitoring purposes only few exemplars would be taken for analysis.
Proposal: To be decide 10

11. Proposal for EEL
Because of the protected status eel should only be used for trend monitoring (to continue old trend monitoring programs). 11

12. Invitation to SCG
Approval of the final draft of the “Guidance on chemical monitoring of sediment and biota” in view of its endorsement by the Water Directors.
Thank you for your attention!!!