1. Communication on ongoing processes - agreements on task 1 and 2

2. EEA and WFD communities
EEA management Board
Water directors
EEA
EIONET /NFPs
Steering Coordination Group
Working Group D
Reporting chair DG Env
Drafting Group
Compliance
Chair Dg Env
Drafting Group
SOE/Trends
Chair EEA
NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop

3. Task 1
EEA needs for data and information  indicator based assessments (Core set of indicators)
Comparable information needs for EU-level picture
Using: Monitoring-data-information-assessment-reporting (MDIAR) and DPSIR framework

4. Task 1 Eionet-water as starting point
Disaggregated data from monitoring sites to ensure comparability in assessments and to enable trend assessments
Eionet-water needs to adapt to networks under WFD
 subset of Art.8 reported set, coming from the same networks

5. Task 1
SOE reporting does not require additional monitoring but uses the the WFD monitoring network or monitoring under other directives
Paper clarifies basic principles on
Data versus information
Frequency in sampling versus frequency in reporting annuality should be kept (only) where data are monitored annualy

6. Changes in task 1 paper after discussions in Working group reporting (WGD) and Steering Coordination Group (SCG)
Task 1 paper final

7. Task 2 Review of existing guidance documents
Useful exercise to support set up of 2006 monitoring networks
Doesn‘t need to be part of SOE-guidance document

8. Further process
Completed papers on task 1 and 2 agreed background information in the WFD community to be reported to NFPs and EEA Management Board
Task 1 paper into introduction in future guidance document (which will be mainly documents on Task 3, 4 and 5)
Final guidance for WD and EEA MB in November 2007

9. Further comments
Urgent request from SCG (AT) to present the first set of final draft reporting sheets already in June 2007 Water Directors meeting in Germany
 Align progress with discussion on 2010 reporting sheets in compliance drafting group