1. Water Information System for Europe
Working Group F - Floods
Brussels, 19 October 2007
Violeta Vinceviciene/Joachim D’Eugenio
European Commission, DG Environment
Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, WFD Team

2. Principles of reporting
To check compliance with the requirements of specific articles of the Directive
To carry out preliminary assessment of the situation in the Member States
To carry out further detailed analysis (where additional data may be required)
To compile statistics for its own needs and to inform the European Parliament
To create an European-wide picture to inform the public

3. Lessons learned  purpose of improvement
Reporting:
Not streamlined
No co-ordination among EU water policy (other directives)
No possibility for
data exchange and
integrated assessment & analysis of water quality situation in receiving waters

4. Situation before 2007 Information Users Public M S EEA Intern. Conv.
COM
Information
Information
Information
Information
Member States
Data
Data treatment

5. Purposes for reporting
Common vision by 2010 and +
“Report Once, Use Many”
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

6. Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission
Unit D.2 – Water and Marine, DG Environment, European Commission

7. WHAT is WISE ? “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”

8. WHAT is WISE ?
WISE Implementation plan is flexible 3-stage work programme:
2005: planning
2006: preparation
2007 – 2010: construction
Strategic planning, does not provide all details
Principle: report once use many – harmonise reporting tools
New WISE GIS will provide multilevel GIS infrastructure  building block for INSPIRE
Support data integration and content interoperability along the WISE IP

9. 2007 OUTPUT INPUT 2010 EOINET water / SoE WISE Public Viewer
WFD
State of env’ment
Member states
Bathing water D
Urban WWD
Report Net
WISE Public Viewer
INPUT
OUTPUT
WFD, UWWD
EIONET Water
Member states
ESTAT
Other policies/ users
WISE Public
2010
ReportNet: Push/ Pull
Proto-cols
WISE: Access
WISE Expert
WISE Analysis

10. Integration of other EU water policy areas into WISE
WHAT is WISE ?
Integration of other EU water policy areas into WISE
Urban Water Water Treatment – 2007/8
Nitrates Directive – 2008
Bathing Water Directive –2007/8
Drinking Water Directive –2007/8
Thereafter starting in 2008
ESTAT/OECD Joint questionnaire on inland waters
Marine protection strategy
Floods directive
Priority substances directive via streamlining with EPER/e-PRTR reporting

11. WISE IP

14. WISE viewer: WFD

15. From European level to stations
Weser

16. WISE map and data access:
Full access at
River Basin District view simple, regional, overview
Thematic view medium details, thematic
Expert view complex, full functionality, all
Access to and download of tabular data
Document libraries
Beta services to establish WMS connections

17. Structured information on research and development projects
WISE Projects
Structured information on research and development projects
Extension to relevant LIFE, INTERREG and other projects planned
Developed by two RTD projects (HarmoniCA, SPI-Water)
Full access at
Floods directive related projects can already be included

18. WISE in the wider context
Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) and INSPIRE
Air
Soil
Water
WISE
Agri-
culture
Climate change
Others …

19. WISE – success factors
Joint ownership and leadership of DG ENV, EEA, ESTAT, JRC
The co-operation of the Member States
EU27 and the EEA member countries
All Working Groups incl. WG F
Int. river commissions
Definition of core data set against which reporting is made (decentralised set up with central reference data base)
WISE conceptually fully integrated in wider environmental reporting discussion (incl. INSPIRE, etc)
Provision of access to all information types
Numerical data (raw), ecological status (computed), thematic maps, reports, downloads, documents (e.g. methodologies)
WISE is a complex process to manage, it needs positive commitment

20. Useful references On water policy at EU level:
On WISE:
On CIRCA: