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Reporting on State of Environment Reporting on State of Environment and trendsand trends

First meeting of the Drafting Group15. June 05IntroductionBeate Werner

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SoE reporting by EEASoE 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

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• 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

EEA interest

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Purposes for reporting

Drivers for data collection

ways and pupose of reporting in a shared ways and pupose of reporting in a shared information systeminformation system

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Purpose of EU-level SoE assessmentsPurpose of EU-level SoE assessments

National reports on WFD, N-Dir, UWWTD, implementation and compliance, e.g. Art 3 and 5 + nat. SoE reports

Collected on EU-level

Scattered picture limited comparability

SoE assessment on EU-level, reports in aggregated way with comparable data

EU-wide picture

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EEA assessmentsEEA 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

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Disaggregation for trends – Disaggregation for trends – Nutrients in freshwaterNutrients in freshwater

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Nitrate-groundwater bodies(90)

Nitrate-lakes (31)

Nitrate-rivers (1243)

Total phosphorus - lakes(107)

Orthophosphate-rivers (967)

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

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Are we moving into the right Are we moving into the right direction? - Are measures effective?direction? - Are measures effective?Many national monitoring programmes have been running for Many national monitoring programmes have been running for 20-40 years – good basis for evaluating trend20-40 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

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Present concentration of orthophosphate (µg P/l) in rivers in European countries

Dissagregation on station level

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

MK (10)

SK (8)

CZ (21)

RO (88)

GR (53)

NL (5)

HU (94)

PL (130)

DK (37)

LT (61)

LU (3)

FR (377)

BG (99)

IT (89)

DE (146)

GB (149)

LV (56)

IE (49)

EE (44)

ES (101)

SI (22)

BA (21)

AT (242)

SE (91)

FI (65)

% of stations

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10 to 50

51 to 250

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>500

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spatial dissagregation - spatial dissagregation - trend of information per catchmenttrend of information per catchment

Denmark - Total oxidised nitrogen concentration in rivers with different levels of arable land cover in their catchment in relation to N fertiliser

consumption at a national level

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Orthophosphate concentrations in Orthophosphate concentrations in different sized riversdifferent sized rivers

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comparabilitycomparability

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EEAassessment

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

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Summary on mandate and commentsSummary 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

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........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

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Task 1 :• Clarification of reporting streams required for

and contributing to SOE-assessments• Specifying (i.e identifying existing) flows on

a) 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)

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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)

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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)

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Summary on mandate and commentsSummary on mandate and commentsTask 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)

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Tasks:• 5) Requirements for technical integration

• To formulate requirements for the technical tools under WISE, e.g. Integration with data dictionary and REPORTNET tools

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TimetableTimetable 2005 2006 2007

Tasks

1) Clarification on reporting streams required for and contributing to SOE-assessments

2) Review of 2.7 Monitoring guidance and former EWN Guidance

3) Guidance on scope of SOE-parameters reporting sheets for SOER for surface and GWi) physico-chemical quality elementsii) biological quality elementsiii) hydromorphological quality elements

4) Guidance on data processing and handlinga) interoperabilityb) aspects of QA/QC and comparabilityc) statistical aspects;d) spatial and temporal aggregation of data;e) meta data to support the SOE data;f) business rules on data handling and dissemination;g) schedule for regular updating (based EIONET-water)

5) Requirements and recommendation for technical integration; review of development

a) needs for data base aspectsb) Development of Reportnet toolsc) Needs on GIS aspects

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Relation to the development of WISERelation to the development of WISE

Reflecting the recent discussion between DG ENV, JRC, ESTAT and

EEA

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Key messages from BrainstormingKey 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

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Current situationCurrent situation

Intern.Conv.

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EEA

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Member StatesData

Information Users

Information

Information Information

Information

Information

Data treatment

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Data treatment

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WISE – Process + Tool

Information Users

Intern.Conv.

M SPublicEEA

COMEU - level

Information

Compliancechecking

PolicyEffectiveness

SoETrends An.

Purposes for reporting

Drivers for data collection

Common visionCommon vision

Member StatesData

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SOE-datafrom WFD-networks

Other data

Compliance reporting

SOE-assessments and Policy effectiveness

Compliance

One common data infrastructure

(virtual dataplace)

With separated, but overlapping features e.g.

data repository, data dictionary visualisation tools, web interfaces

WISE

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