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Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS

Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS. Information needs – links between WFD and Eionet, and how data flows will be further facilitated Steve Nixon, WRc. Presentation. Water Framework Directive Reporting Eionet-Water WISE-SOE Streamlining compliance and SOE data flows.

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Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS

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  1. Workshop on WFD Article 8 reporting tools and WISE GIS Information needs – links between WFD and Eionet, and how data flows will be further facilitated Steve Nixon, WRc

  2. Presentation • Water Framework Directive Reporting • Eionet-Water • WISE-SOE • Streamlining compliance and SOE data flows

  3. EEA management Board Steering Coordination Group/Water directors EEA EIONET/NFPs Steering Group (DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA) WISE technical group(DG Env, JRC, Eurostat, EEA & experts) Working Group D Reportingchair DG Env WISE-GISworkshop NRCs for water and EIONET water Workshop Drafting Group Compliance Chair Dg Env EEA and WFD communities Drafting Group SOE/Trends Chair EEA

  4. Commission requires information to check compliance with the relevant EU legislation It requires information enabling it to: • Ensure data are plausible • Ensure data are consistent • Conduct cross-references and cross-checks on data (especially in International River Basins) • Ensure the Directive has been implemented in a harmonised way.

  5. Commission also requires • information on State of the Environment and trends (SoE), and on implementation of measures to allow it • to determine whether existing policies are adequately protecting the environment and • to identify where further measures may be needed.

  6. Reporting under WFD • Article 3 - due 22 June 2004 • Article 5 - due 22 March 2005 • e.g. Characteristics of River Basin Districts (identification of water bodies) • Article 8 - due 22 March 2007 • Summary report on monitoring networks operational end 2006

  7. Eionet- water • Agreed priority data flows with annual update on rivers, lakes, groundwaters, transitional, coastal and marine waters • Nutrients (nitrate in groundwater, chlorophyll in marine waters) • Organic pollution indicators • Hazardous substances in water (and in marine biota) • Water quantity • Using Reportnet tools • Validated data and information available through EEA web page

  8. Eionet-Water River Stations

  9. CSI 20 Nutrients in freshwater Are nutrients and organic pollution decreasing in our freshwater? Assessment of trends at the country level – Orthophosphate 1992 to 2002

  10. EIONET-water adaptation to WFD WFD –requirements - Charact. for RBMD /Water bodies (spatial represent.)- aggregated information on type specific quality classes - surveillance and operational monitoring  adapt networks EIONET-water- quality data- HS in biota- Quantity- (Biological)- (Emissions) Reportnet,CDR,DD Stratification stations representative per MS Conceptual adaptation:-SOE sites to represent River basin /water body - SOE sites to enable type specific assessment Technical- use of Reportnet tools in WISE/ inspire compatible- WISE – GIS Networksrestructured for 2006/7

  11. Objective of SOER-drafting group • To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information • To provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE) • To meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level.

  12. The challenge • Integration into WISE with streamlined reporting e.g. between Articles 3, 5, 8 and SOE-data flow • Selecting good monitoring sites for the Eionet-water/SOE-reporting • Representative for water body/group of WB • Allowing type specific assessments • Keep time series from the Eionet water data set as far as possible

  13. EEA Assessments • State of, and trends, in the water environment – Core set and other indicators • Broader assessments of specific water related issues e.g. eutrophication • Assessment of impact of specific sectors (e.g. agriculture) on water, perhaps based on conceptual models such as water accounts • EEA aims to make these assessments more representative (of each catchment and subcatchment within each river basin district in a country)

  14. Criteria for the monitoring sites to be used for EEA/SOE assessments Representative monitoring sites covering • All water categories (groundwater, rivers, lakes, transitional, coastal and marine waters) • All types of water body • Complete range of statuses present • All sizes • All types of pressure • Different sites for different quality elements • Sites may be from surveillance, operational and other monitoring networks • Annual monitoring may be undertaken at the sites for some of the determinands

  15. Rivers: Difference in numbers of surveillance monitoring and Eionet-Water sites

  16. Reporting of SOE data and information • Data will in principle be reported at the site level • Site level data may then be aggregated spatially and/or temporally in ways appropriate for the assessment being undertaken e.g. at water body level • Reporting at site level will ensure maximum flexibility in how data are subsequently compiled, aggregated and analysed by the EEA • Number of different relationships between monitoring stations, quality elements measured at the station and the water bodies they represent • Need supportive and interpretative information on how sites relate to water bodies and groups of water bodies

  17. Options for the treatment of data before reporting • Vary between quality elements and reporting sheets • Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with aggregation of data from the sub-sites associated with the site • Depth average for deep lakes (with surface values) • Width averaged for rivers (with certain conditions) • Countries can still report sub-sites if they so-wish (e.g. Danube) • Annual/seasonal aggregation of data for each monitoring site with NO aggregation of data from sub-sites • Disaggregated, individual sample data for each monitoring site and sub-site

  18. Draft Reporting Sheets for SOE data and information • 16 drafted • 12 of those currently in, or partially in, Eionet-Water and Data Dictionary • 4 on biological quality elements not in Data Dictionary • 16 require future development • Sheets for marine waters to be discussed with EMMA group

  19. Streamlining of reporting - Geographic information Monitoring site • Links to compliance reporting sheets on monitoring (Article 8) • Unique monitoring site code linked to unique water body code and unique codes for each water body within a group • Need not be reported again for SOE • However will be required for those sites included in SOER but not in WFD monitoring networks Article 5 • All water bodies • Unique code • Coordinates of centroid of water body • Shape/GML files of the water bodies

  20. Further process for reporting sheets • Final draft by beginning 2007 • All sheets drafted so far • Proposal for further development and list of issues to be clarified for undeveloped sheets • First draft of agreed sheets (basic set around old Eionet-water data flow) for German water Directors and summer EEA MB meetings •  May meeting of NFPs and strategic coordination group • Further development of technical implementation in WISE together with realisation Article 8 reporting until September 2007 • Task 4 and 5 • Final guidance for WD and EEA MB in Nov. 2007

  21. Streamlining of reporting Process • Article 8 submissions will be via ReportNet • Amend ReportNet processes (voluntary) to support Compliance reporting (obligatory) • Amend workflow to include compliance checking step. • Increased validation requirements • Improved reports functionality • Creation of European dataset

  22. Thank you for your attention!!

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