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Reporting on State of Environment and trends

This report highlights the importance of the European Environment Agency (EEA) in providing timely and reliable information on the environment, with a focus on reporting on the state and trends of environmental data. The report discusses the types of data reported to the EU, compliance checking, policy effectiveness, and the purposes of reporting. It emphasizes the need for disaggregated data for effective assessments and decision-making. The report also outlines the tasks and objectives of the Drafting Group in streamlining and improving reporting processes.

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Reporting on State of Environment and trends

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  1. Reporting on State of Environment and trends First meeting of the Drafting Group 15. June 05 Introduction Beate Werner

  2. SoE reporting by EEA • The European Environment Agency is the EU body dedicated to providing timely, targeted, reliable and independent information on the environment To this end EEA is mandated: • to provide the Community and the Member States with the objective, comparable information necessary for framing and implementing sound and effective environmental policies; • to record, collate and assess data on the state of the environment and to draw up regular expert reports on the state, quality, sensitivity and pressures on the environment

  3. Compliance checking Policy effectiveness EEA interest SoE, trends Types of data reported to EU • Legal transposition • Practical compliance –conformity with environmental standards, limit values… • Description on policy measures - plans programmes, instruments • Policy effects and effectiveness – effects of measures and distance to target • Environmental data – environmental pressures, state and trends

  4. Drivers for data collection ways and pupose of reporting in a shared information system Information Users 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

  5. Purpose of EU-level SoE assessments SoE assessment on EU-level,  reports in aggregated way with comparable data  Scattered picture limited comparability Needs disaggregated data from MS Collected on EU-level EU-wide picture National reports on WFD, N-Dir, UWWTD, implementation and compliance, e.g. Art 3 and 5 + nat. SoE reports Coarse resolution, for small catchment scale only aggregated information - not for looking in „your backyard“ Member States - EU

  6. EEA assessments • Core Set of Indicators • Nutrients in freshwater • Oxygen consuming substances in rivers • Urban waste water treatment • Use of freshwater resources • Other indictors, see Water Indicator Report • Hazardous substances • Water quantity • Broader integrated assessments e.g.: • Agriculture/water linkages, and effectiveness of UWWTD;  Linking water quality to pressures from agriculture and point sources • Impacts from climate change – water quantity on EU-scale

  7. Disaggregation for trends – Nutrients in freshwater

  8. Disaggregation for trends grouped by regions - Phosphorous in rivers

  9. Are we moving into the right direction? - Are measures effective? Many national monitoring programmes have been running for 20-40 years – good basis for evaluating trend 25 % of monitoring stations on Europe's rivers recorded a decrease between 1992 and 2001. However, around 15 % of river monitoring stations showed an increasing trend in nitrate concentrations over the same period.Source: EEA Signals 2004 - Dissagregated data needed to make the overall EU-level statistic

  10. Dissagregation on station level Present concentration of orthophosphate (µg P/l) in rivers in European countries

  11. spatial dissagregation - trend of information per catchment

  12. Orthophosphate concentrations in different sized rivers Catchment area (km2)

  13. MS MS MS MS MS comparability EEA assessment Provision of or access to data at the lowest level of aggregation needed to ensure comparability; e.g. annually/monthly concentration of nutrients at (representative) stations

  14. Summary on mandate and comments Objective: • SoE data stream streamlined with reporting obligations under all relevant water related directives • To support SoE reporting based on at least annual frequency where available (wording adapted) • Taking EIONET – water as a principal starting point taking into account necessary adaptation of EIONET and of the national Monitoring Networks towards the WFD requirements

  15. Summary on mandate and comments ........Objective: • Reference to INSPIRE principles and priority on easy access to data (added) • The Drafting Group will discuss and agree on the appropriate level of aggregation

  16. Summary on mandate and comments Task 1 : • Clarification of reporting streams required for and contributing to SOE-assessments • Specifying (i.e identifying existing) flows ona) data produced for compliance purposesb) other data MS provide (voluntary) to enable SOE, trend and pressures reporting out of the national monitoring networks under WFD and other policy processes • (identify synergies and relation between them to be possible used in their reporting)

  17. Summary on mandate and comments Tasks 2 : • Review of existing guidance documents • 2.7 monitoring guidance • Former EWN-guidelines • Monitoring and reporting guidance for other directives • The aim is to use monitoring networks under WFD most efficiently (clarified)

  18. Summary on mandate and comments Tasks 3 : • Write guidance document on scope of parameters • List scope and sub-set of parameters • Scope in cooperation with formulation of reporting sheets in compliance drafting group (added) • To be developed in alignment with establishment of new monitoring networks under WFD (iterative process) (clarified)

  19. Summary on mandate and comments Task 4 : • write Guidance document on data processing and handling • Elaboration of : • Semantic, conceptual and referential interoperability between the national/regional and EU-level set of information (added) • Aspects of QA/QC and comparability (added) • Statistical aspects; • Spatial and temporal aggregation of data; • Meta data to support the reported SOE data; • Business rules on data handling and dissemination; • Schedule for regular updating (based on the existing EIONET-water data flow). (modified)

  20. Summary on mandate and comments Tasks: • 5) Requirements for technical integration • To formulate requirements for the technical tools under WISE, e.g. Integration with data dictionary and REPORTNET tools

  21. Timetable

  22. Relation to the development of WISE Reflecting the recent discussion between DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA

  23. Key messages from Brainstorming Agreement on one common data infrastructure • SOE-Drafting Group has to agree on guidance: • on data specification and aggregation level • on exchange ways and formats in cooperation with compliance Draf Group • Requirements on GIS aspects in co-operation wih GIS group

  24. Current situation Information Users Public M S EEA Intern. Conv. Information COM Information Information Information Information Member States Data Data treatment

  25. Data treatment /aggregation WISE – Process + Tool Drivers for data collection Common vision Information Users Policy Effectiveness Public M S EEA Intern. Conv. EU - level Information COM SoE Trends An. Compliance checking Member States Data Purposes for reporting

  26. One common data infrastructure(virtual dataplace) SOE-datafrom WFD-networks WISE SOE-assessments and Policy effectiveness Other data Compliance reporting Compliance With separated, but overlapping features e.g. data repository, data dictionary visualisation tools, web interfaces

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