1. Water statistics reporting in the EU in the recent years
ESTP Water Statistics Vienna 2016
Arnulf Schönbauer
THE CONTRACTOR IS ACTING UNDER A FRAMEWORK CONTRACT CONCLUDED WITH THE COMMISSION

2. History of the Joint-Questionnaire
First issued by OECD in 1980
Eurostat joined in 1988
Collaboration with UN Statistical Divisions since 1996
Items: Air, Inland Waters, Marine environment, Land, Forest, Wildlife, Waste, Noise, Environmental Expenditures
Significant revision of JQ-Inland Water in 2012

3. Objectives of the JQs
Collection and harmonisation of national environmental data
Update and improve environmental statistics
To contribute to work of the Commission of the European Communities on environmental policy

4. JQ-Inland waters: Main purposes
Structural indicators and indicators for sustainable development
Indicators for water management
Economic analysis of the water industry and water accounts
Environmental performance reviews

5. REQ Objective regional environmental statistics for Europe Items
Water, Waste, Transport, Energy, Land Use

6. REQ Time-line Pilot exercises 2010 Afterwards biennial
Next release 2016

7. Coverage Geographic coverage JQ-IW: National REQ Time coverage
NUTS 2 note: will be cancelled from 2016 on
River Basin Districts (EEA)
Time coverage
Both questionnaires: yearly data

8. Structur of the JQ-IW Table 1-4
Freshwater tables T 1 Renewable freshwater resources T 2 Annual freshwater abstraction by source and by sector T 3 Water made available for use T 4 Water use by supply category and by sector

9. Structur of the JQ-IW Table 1-4
Wastewater tables
T 5 Population connected to wastewater treatment plants
T 6 Treatment capacity of wastewater treatment plants in terms of BOD note: (cancelled from 2016 on)
T 7 Sewage sludge production and disposal
T 8 Generation and discharge of wastewater
OECD only
T 9 Water quality of selected rivers, at mouth or downstream frontier
T 10 Water quality of selected lakes

10. JQ-IW versus REQ