1. CIS progress June-November 2011: main highlights
WFD reporting tools for 2012 ready (see separate info note 1f)
Intercalibration (agenda item 2b)
Work on WSD indicators (agenda item 2c)
Streamlining work WFD/NiD/SoE
Workshop on hydropower, Brussels, September 2011
Conference Water pricing in agriculture, Poland, September 2011
Workshop on Climate Change, Water and Agriculture, Madrid, September 2011
SPI activities (see separate progress report):
Event on Ecosystem services and WFD, Brussels, September 2011
Information session for the SCG November

2. EG on Climate Change and Water mandate
Overview:
Organized by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs in collaboration with the United Kingdom and the European Commission
EG on Climate Change and Water mandate
Madrid, 22nd and 23rd of September
90 representatives of different Member States
Structure:
Objectives:
identify the knowledge, action and policy requirements to support a sustainable water management in the agricultural sector in the context of climate change challenges
enable input into current EU policy developments (ex: CAP post-2013 and the Blueprint)
State of the understanding
Knowledge gaps
Adaptation examples
Political tools for adaptation

3. Recommendations: Monitoring networks
- Ensuring long term, geographically broad and coherent monitoring networks.
- Preserving monitoring sites with long time series.
- Reviewing with caution the investments due the current financial pressures.
Use of the information obtained (current evidence, key challenges and evidence requirements) for the next Research Framework Programme.
MS should develop simple communications to stakeholders and policy makers about the impacts, challenges and uncertainties of climate change facing water management in the agricultural sector.
The EU policies should develop mainstreaming of adaptation through greater explicitness in the identification and evaluation of multi-objective adaptation measures for water management in a long-term effective way.

4. Water Science-Policy Interface (CIS-SPI) Progress report
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
RESEARCH DIRECTORATE-GENERAL
Directorate I – Environment
Water Science-Policy Interface (CIS-SPI) Progress report
Water directors – 9 December 2011
F. MARTINI (FRANCE - ONEMA)
M. SCHOUPPE (COM - DG RTD)

5. Quick overview on SPI activities
Task 1 Inventory of research and implementation needs from CIS groups
Task 2 Available research and research gaps
Task 3 Improving transfer and usability of research outputs
 Identification and ongoing prioritisation of S&T questions of high relevance to the CIS
Involvement of CIS groups
With the help of nominated SPI-correspondents
Questionnaires in and 2011
Validation through annual SPI events in Autumn , 2011 and (planned) in 2012
 Draft list of needs compiled and communicated to EU and National research programme owners
Mapping of FP6-FP7 research projects of relevance to each CIS group
Collection of policy briefs from research projects
Transfer of available knowledge and project synopses directly to the SCG in 2011 and (planned) in 2012
Ongoing analysis of available research versus CIS needs from Task 1 to validate research gaps
 SPI member of the Stakeholder Advisory Group of the JPI on water
Recommendations towards improved Science-Policy Briefs (following analysis of existing briefs)
Connecting scientists and WFD end users
1st SPI event Sept round tables on CIS needs
2nd SPI event Sept “Implementation of the WFD: when ecosystem services come into play”
3rd SPI event Sept (tbc) 10 round tables on CIS gaps
Other types of connecting events (e.g. by CIS groups, FP7 support actions, WWF6…)
Towards recommendations on good dissemination practices and instruments for water management (EU to local scale)

6. The water directors are invited to:
take note of state of the progress made by CIS-SPI and next steps to make
take note of the usefulness of having tasks 1 and 2 of CIS-SPI activity permanent and to consider research transfer tools experimentation continuation; on this basis, CIS-SPI plans to draft a second mandate
take note of the importance of SPI to implement WFD as mentioned in the Blueprint document

7. Documents to be endorsed
Technical report on Groundwater Dependent Terrestrial Ecosystems
Recommendations for the review of Annexes of the Groundwater Directive*
Guidance document on inventory of emissions, discharges and losses of priority substances
Concept paper on the intercalibration of Good Ecological Potential to be presented and endorsed under agenda point 2b intercalibration
Flood risk management plans reporting sheet
* Proposal to add the following footnote to the reference to Directive 91/414/EEC on page 13:
“Directive 91/414/EC has been replaced by Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, which provides for a definition of "relevant metabolite" in relation to human toxicology and ecotoxicology. This is setting a legal framework for the interpretation of this term. However, additional guidance might be necessary for the implementation of the mentioned regulation as well as the GWD.”