1. SCG Meeting
Brussels, 18 February 2005
Agenda item 6d - Water Information System for Europe (WISE) and WG D Reporting
State-of-play

2. Introduction
What is the “Water Information System for Europe” (WISE) and where are we?
Progress on reporting in 2005
Plans for the WG D on reporting

3. WISE aims
Efficient management of all water-related information at EU level
Coherence between various reporting mechanisms and needs
Acces to information / data for various purposes and needs

4. Common objective
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”

5. What is WISE?
The “Water Information System for Europe” is:
an idea/vision (2002)
a concept (2003) – concept paper published on internet
a process (2003 …) – Working Group D on Reporting
a co-operation (between EU bodies and MS)
a set of tools (GIS, prototype, RTD, …)
an internet and “single entry” portal (wise.jrc.cec.eu.int)
a definition of reporting requirements
a gateway for (public) information (2006)

6. Water Information System for Europe
WISE elements
Water Information System for Europe
WISE concept
Process
Tools
Components
WISE reporting
sheets
WISE prototype
WISE RTD web
WG Reporting
WISE GIS
WISE Compliance
WISE GIS experts
Reference data
WISE / EIONET
Water

7. WISE process
Close co-ordination between European bodies (ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA)
Collaboration with Member States
Spin off to linked activities (INSPIRE, GMES, env. Reporting, RTD)
Inclusion of new technologies
Development of WISE tools (reference data, internet prototype, GIS)
Agreement of reporting requirements (reporting sheets)

8. Current situation Information Users EEA Information COM Information
Public/
Stake- holders
Member States
EEA
Internat.
Conven-
tions
Information
COM
Information
Information
Information
Information
Member States
Data
Data treatment

10. Purposes for reporting
Common vision
Information Users
Policy
Effectiveness
Public/
Stake- holders
Member States
EEA
International
Conventions
WISE
COM
SoE
Trends An.
Data treatment
/ aggregation
Compliance
checking
Member States
Data
Purposes for reporting
Drivers for data collection

11. WISE in the wider context WISE
Environmental Reporting/
EIONET/INSPIRE
X-Cutting Issues such as biodiversity and health
Air
Soil
Water
WISE
Agri-
culture
Climate
Others …

12. WISE – state-of-play
input prototype online
WFD reporting 2004 and 2005 (Art. 3+5) defined
WFD 2004 reporting tool online
5 MS completed WISE reporting 2004
WISE GIS tool under development
Interface for RTD information under development

13. WISE - next steps and outlook
Development of 2005 reporting input template
Development of output module (restricted and public-to be launched in 2006)
Preparation of WFD reporting guidance on monitoring and RBMP
Further development of WISE GIS
Integration of other water databases: intercalibration, UWWT, flooding etc.
Closer integration of EIONET Water
Further development of RTD interface

14. WG D on Reporting
New chairman
Meetings scheduled for 27 April and 13/14 October
Drafting Group “Compliance” to meet in-between
Focus 2005, monitoring reporting guidance (including, where relevant monitoring data to be formally reported in 2010)
EEA to start work on “SoE” Group
Guiding WISE and GIS work

15. WG D and WISE
Workshop “WasserBLIcK and WISE” starting point for closer co-operation between EU bodies and MS
WG D to discuss the establishment of WISE Drafting Group together with GIS Experts in order to exchange “best practices” and ensure “interoperability” of national, IRBD and WISE system.
WG D to ensure link to other groups working on the integration of other directives into WISE (e.g. UWWT)