Water Information

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International Work Session on Water
Statistics Vienna, 20-22 June 2005
Water Information System for Europe (WISE)
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Introduction

• Current situation regarding reporting of water
  information in EU
• Water Information System for Europe -WISE
• State of play and progress on reporting under WFD
• The wider context (INSPIRE, EIONET, UWWT
  reporting, etc.)

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Current situation
Information Users
Public/ Stake-holders
Member States
EEA
Internat. Conven- tions
Information
COM
Information
Information
Information
Information
Member States Data
Data treatment
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WISE - Background
The EU bodies (DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and EEA) and
EU25 Member States, plus Norway, Bulgaria and
Romania in the framework of CIS for WFD agreed on
the Water Directors meeting in November
2003 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
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WISE -Common vision
Information Users
Public/ Stake-holders
Policy Effectiveness
Member States
EEA
International Conventions
WISE
COM
SoE Trends An.
Data treatment / aggregation
Compliance checking
Member States Data
Purposes for reporting
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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

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WISE process

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

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

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WISE state-of-play

• WFD reporting 2004 and 2005 (Art. 35)
  defined
• WFD 2004 reporting tool online (until end of
  June 2005)
• WFD 2005 reporting tool currently being finalised
  ( ready for testing in July)
• 11 ( 3) MS completed WISE reporting for Article
  3 report 2004

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Logon screen
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Article 3 report submission (June 2005)
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WISE - next steps and outlook

• Completion 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

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WISE in the wider context
Environmental Reporting/ EIONET/INSPIRE X-Cutting
Issues such as biodiversity and health
Water WISE
Air
Soil
Agri- culture
Climate
Others
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UWWTD integration into WISE
Environmental Reporting /
EIONET / INSPIRE
Water WISE
Air
Climate change
Agri-culture
SOIL
Others
Other Directives
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UWWTD a single reporting system
Reporting before 2005
Reporting long-term
WISE
Reporting after 2005
UWWTD DB Electronic format
Art.15
Art.17
Art.16
Other requests for all requirements
of UWWTD