1. WISE - State of the art --- WISE - in the context of SEIS
Beate Werner, Stefan Jensen

2. How does WISE look like today?
What happened to Eionet-water?
Where do we want to go from here?

3. WISE has been launched on March 22nd 2007…

4. EEA - European water data centre - provider of thematic information and data

5. From ”stand-alone” EIONET water to WISE – SOE integrated with other water data
New ways of communication!
... from tabular data to interactive maps ...
New integrative viewing and assessment options (merging EU directives)
First time supporting the themes
Information on MyRiverbasin and competent authorities in MS
European waterbodies at risk and / or highly modified
Waterquality (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, Teleatlas layers)
Full access at

6. Information from Eionet in WISE ...
Finland & Bothnian Bay
River stations
Gauging stations
Lake stations
Marine stations

7. ... now merged with WFD (right) and urban waste water and bathingwater data (below) ...

8. ... reaching from European level down to regional stations.
(here: nitrate levels at rivers stations)
Weser

9. How has Eionet water changed?
monitoring site
Reference to geography; catchment, WB (Art. 3+5)
Reported once under Art. 8
due 22. March 2007
agreed: Nutrients, Chl a, HZ, in FW + GW
In discussion: biolog. Elements, quantity, emissions, marine, HZ
measured regularly
(monthly, annually, biannually…)

10. Eionet-water in WFD implementation as WISE-SOE
Parameters of the Eionet-Water priority data flow now endorsed in the WFD Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) as first set of WFD-SOE parameters to be reported under WISE
The information reported under Art. 8 WFD will be used directly for the description and selection of the Eionet-water sites

11. Commission (DG Env) EEA Compliance check Policy compliance data
SOE information
Voluntary
Agreed with EEA MB
Commission (DG Env)
Policy compliance data
Mandatory (+voluntary)
Based on legislation
Based on same monitoring networks/ information in Member States
Data exchange
1st Quality assurance
1st Check for consistency
Compliance check
Assessment, basis for infringement procedures
SOE assessment
Indicators
Policy analysis

12. WISE principles are SEIS principles
cooperation of EU institutions and Member States
Information is managed as close as possible to its source Distributed WISE nodes
Information is provided once and used for many purposes
As of 2007 Reportnet is the WFD reporting tool
Information accessible for clients to make comparisons at the appropriate geographical scale and information available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, - (WISE map viewer displays of countries, river basins, catchment areas)
European funding mechanisms should focus on delivering cost-effective analytical tools and services e.g. HarmoiCA (

13. WISE in the context of SEIS
content
Integrated assessments  information from WISE-SOE, WFD, other directives and other environmental areas + spatial and (non-water) statistical information
streamlining
Reduced reporting burden  WFD, SOE and data from other water related directives - parameter alignment
- all flows through REPORTNET under WISE
access
distributed system
output side  provide shared water services for public
and input side  leave data at source

14. Towards development of distributed system
Output
Link to member states’ Water Information Systems to show regional assessments
Need for common data features e.g. spatial data
Input
Data at source - harvest of data
Ensures regular update of data from source
Requires agreed meta-data and exchange formats

15. Important role for Eionet in the further WISE development
Conceptual development from SOE perspective
How do we share water related SOE- data and assessments in the Eionet
Which are the priority assessments in WISE and how to display them – using best available data
Co-operation throughout all water related legislations and processes
With WFD – CIS
With other water related directives and policies

16. EEA and WFD communities
EIONET /NFPs
NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop
EEA management Board
SOE
Group
Chair EEA
Working Group D
Reporting chair DG Env
compliance Group
Chair Dg Env
WISE technical group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts)
Steering Coordination Group/ Water directors
EEA