1. Mandate of the EEA To provide the Community and Member States with:
objective, reliable and comparable information enabling them to take the requisite measures to protect the environment, to assess the results of such measures and to ensure that the public is properly informed about the state of the environment.

2. Mandate of the EEA
To publish a report on the state of, trends in and prospects for the environment every 5 years
Supplemented by indicator reports focusing on specific issues

3. EUROWATERNET is:
The process by which the EEA obtains the information on water resources (quality and quantity), state and pressures it needs to satisfy its mandate
It is based on existing national networks and dataflows are channelled through the EEA network: EIONET

4. Representative information
Representative of:
Europe - all regions
country
water types within each country
pressures placed on the water environment
policies in place - effectiveness
changes with time
emerging/unforeseen issues

5. Physical characteristics and pressure information for rivers
Geographic location
Catchment area upstream of station
Altitude at station
River discharge at station
Station name
River name
River catchment
Population density
Corine Land Cover (or equivalent)
% Urban area
% Total agriculture
% Arable agriculture
% Pasture
% Forest

6. Maps Presentation of indicators, data and information on maps of:
river, lakes, groundwater bodies and
marine waters
River catchments and Sea drainage basins
Web based tools for presentation
Publish in NATLAN
Inter Regional (Sea) Forum working group on GIS  common strategy between IRF-organisation and EEA

7. EUROWATERNET

9. Sea Drainage Basins
GISCO Catchments Map: 1:10 Million Scale.

10. Assessment tools
Derivation of proxy pressure information using CORINE LC data and other datasets
Derivation of physical characteristic information
Assessment of state/impact in relation to pressures

11. Intensive agriculture

12. Type of zone

13. Selected representative stations

16. Role of the EEA and EUROWATERNET
Water Framework Directive
Identification of reference conditions for the surface water body types
EEA
EUROWATERNET selection criteria and network could help with this process

17. Role of the EEA and EUROWATERNET
Water Framework Direct.
significant pressures and impact of human activity
EEA/EUROWATERNET
Guidelines for European emissions inventory including relationship with IPPC Directive, HARP and other initiatives
Proxy indicators based on Corine Land cover
Eurowaternet-Quantity criteria and harmonised definitions with Eurostat

18. Monitoring required by the Water Framework Directive
Surface water monitoring network should:
provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of ecological and chemical status, and ecological potential within each river basin and
allow classification of water bodies
be shown on maps in River Basin Management Plan.
Have an acceptable level of precision and confidence
Be operational within 6 years

19. Surveillance monitoring
“Surveillance monitoring shall be carried out of sufficient surface water bodies to provide an assessment of the overall surface water status within each catchment or sub catchments within the River Basin District.

20. Water Framework Directive -operational monitoring
status of bodies at risk of failing EOs, and
changes in status from programmes of measures.
sufficient monitoring points in
bodies at risk from significant point and diffuse source pressures,
representative of relative risks of occurrence and of failure to achieve good status

21. Comparison of EUROWATERNET and Water Framework Directive
Basic network
Fully representative network
Impact network
Water Framework Directive
Surveillance monitoring
Operational monitoring
Investigative monitoring

22. Concluding comments
There is overlap in the national datasets needed to formulate the RBMPs for the WFD and what is needed by EEA for its reports
It is strongly recommended that countries make these non-mandatory datasets available within the mandatory GIS maps
The datasets could be reported through EUROWATERNET or the GIS reporting framework for the WFD

23. Concluding comments
Recommended that reporting is through EUROWATERNET because of the different time and geographic scales reported by EEA compared with the WFD
Support the development by JRC of a common river/lake catchment and river/lake network GIS, and a digitised European map of groundwater - all with a common European coding system

24. Concluding comments
INSPIRE - DG ENV led initiative to set up an European Spatial Data Infrastructure is the appropriate framework for the current initiatives between Commission, JRC, EEA and Member States