The EIONET-Water network of the European Environment Agency

The EIONET-Water network of the European Environment Agency 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 1

European Environment Agency (EEA) EEA institution and mission: The EEA is the EU body dedicated to providing sound, independent information on the environment. . . timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers and the public. http: //www. eea. europa. eu/ 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 2

Role of the EEA • Help the Community and member countries make informed decisions • Become an independent analyst, assessor and information provider • Build bridges between science and policy • Coordinate the European environment information and observation network (Eionet) • . . . to support policy processes and inform the public 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 3

EEA Member Countries 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 4

The EIONET network … is a collaborative network of the EEA 1 Agency EEA ETC 5 Topic Centres NFP 31 + 6 NFPs ~ 300 national institutions 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia NRC NRC Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water NRC 5

European Topic Centres (ETCs) • Air and Climate Change • Nature Protection and Biodiversity • Terrestrial Environment • Waste and Material Flows • Water 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 6

Data Service - Waterbase From national monitoring To European data warehouses Reference Waterbase WWW M E Q G L R EEA Data Service European Layer: Working databases at ETC Partners M E Q G L R National Layer: Annual deliveries from EIONET countries 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 7

EEA focus Information Needs ØStatus of Europe’s Waters (Inland, Transitional, Coastal and Marine) Questions to answer How is it? (Nutrients, pesticides, heavy metals, ecological quality. . . ) ØTime trends Is it getting better or worse? ØProspective analysis Will the policy target be achieved? ØPressures on the environment ØDiagnosis (Human, Industrial, Agricultural) ØState of Action on policies Are they working towards target? 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia What is causing the problems? Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 8

EEA Products EEA 5 -year state and outlook reports EEA Signals EEA Reports EEA Briefings EEA Technical reports EEA Fact sheets (total: 37, water: 9) EEA Multimedia publications Information services on the internet 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 9

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Relationship between EIONET-Water and reporting for WFD A number of WFD Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) Working Groups with strong ETC/EEA involvment WFD CIS Working Group on Reporting (WG 2 D) is taking the lead in developing a shared Water Information System for Europe (WISE) • Group chaired by the Commission • State of Environment Reporting (SOER) led by EEA 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 10

WISE To progressively develop and implement a streamlined flow of data and information which will provide a shared pool of common and timely data and information on the state of, and pressures on, Europe’s water (SOE_WISE) that meets the needs of all those organisations requiring to report and make assessments at a European level. The WFD compliant monitoring network will be the fully representative EIONET-Water network Reporting: 2006 Business as ususal (regular EIONET delivery) 2007 EIONET is replaced by WFD reporting through WISE SOER 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 11

WISE Concept WISE Input data frome MS Compliance data validated; From national, local Data centres SOER data validated; From national, subnational Data centres Data linked to WFD Data on quantity, quality, ecological status, classification of water bodies Data from other Directives e. g. IPPC, Nitrates and UWWT Directives. National SOER data to meet national needs. . . . in future decentralised but integrated I ) Central River Basin Data RBD II) GIS component of WISE – Catchmant data base CCM III ) Data Flow REPORTNET Eionet-Water IV) DB Emissions EPER and other emission data International conventions Integration to be developed, monitoring data TCM waters from marine conventions, dater from river conv. 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia System / Tool Components Output • Compliance checking • SOERAnalysis • Assessment • Inform public V) - Assessment. . Further Assessment tools to be developed. . . Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 12

EIONET-Water “the process by which the EEA obtains the information on water resources (quality and quantity) it needs to answer questions raised by its customers”. Priority Data Flow for the EEA is endorsed by EEA Management Board and NFPs 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 13

Data collected through EIONET-Water Rivers, lakes Nutrients, organic pollution indicators and hazardous substances Groundwater Nitrate, ammonium, dissolved oxygen, hazardous substances and pesticides Transitional, Coastal and Marine waters Nutrients, chlorophyll and hazardous substances + Hazardous substances in biota and sediments precipitation, river flows and renewable water resources Water quantity 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 14

Technical Guidelines • EUROWATERNET Quantity - Technical guidelines for implementation: Technical report No 99 http: //reports. eea. europa. eu/technical_report_2003_99/en • EUROWATERNET: Technical guidelines for implementation in transitional, coastal and marine waters: Technical report No 97 http: //reports. eea. europa. eu/technical_report_2003_97/en • EUROWATERNET Technical Guidelines for Implementation Technical report No 7 http: //reports. eea. europa. eu/TECH 07/en/tech 07. pdf • Data Dictionary http: //dd. eionet. europa. eu/index. jsp 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 15

Country evaluation - SMILIES Rivers, lakes At least 2 out of the following criteria are met: 1. More than 75% of sites identified and described, OR 2. Delivery of hazardous substances data, OR 3. Provision of a response to data validation questions. 1. Timely data delivery 2005 to national repository, and 2. Data delivered in the requested format, OR long time series (more than 10 years) for phosphorus, nitrogen and oxygen available. Delayed data delivery under Eionet-Water data collection (i. e. after the delivery deadline). OR Timely delivery, but delivered data are not fulfilling basic quality criteria. No data delivery under Eionet-Water data collection 2005. 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 16

SERBIA & MONTENEGRO Data flow name 2004 2005 Remark EWN-1: River quality Data delivered on time but not in the requested format. Only short time series delivered. No response to data validation questions provided. No hazardous substances data provided. EWN-2: Lake quality Data delivered on time and in the requested format. Only short time series available. No data on hazardous substances available. No response to data validation questions provided. EWN-3: Groundwater quality Data provided on time, but not in the requested format. General descriptions and quality data provided. No data on pesticides and hazardous substances or saltwater intrusion data provided. No GIS data provided. EWN-4: Water quantity N/A ME-1: Marine data 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Data delivered with delay (17 November 2005) and in the requested format. No data delivery in 2005. Source: http: //www. eionet. europa. eu/dataflows/pdf 2005/country_summary? country=CS Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 17

Eionet-Water Annual update 2006 update (http: //www. eionet. europa. eu/Topic_Areas/Water/data-request-2006): From 28 July to 31 October 2006 Technical specifications for requested data sets and information contained in Data Dictionary http: //dd. eionet. europa. eu/index. jsp Data delivered to EEA Central Data Repository http: //cdr. eionet. europa. eu/ Thank you for the on-time data submission (rivers, lakes, quantity)! 7 -8 November 2006 Belgrade, Serbia Extension of the EEA European Topic Centre’s Work Program to the West Balkan Countries in the field of water 18

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