WFD Reporting , Copenhagen, 4th Feb 2010

Schema overviewSchema overview

WFD reporting trainingCopenhagen, 4 February 2010

Jorge Rodriguez-RomeroDG Env, European Commission

1. WFDCommon2. River Basin Districts and

Competent Authorities (Schema RBDSUCA)

3. Surface Water Bodies (Schema SWB), Groundwater Bodies (Schema GWB) and Register of Protected areas (Schema ProtArea)

4. Surface Water and Groundwater Methodologies (Schemas SWMethods and GWMethods)

5. River Basin Management Plans and Programmes of Measures (Schema RBMP_POM)

6. Monitoring (Schemas SWMonitoringStations, GWMonitoringStations and Monitoring)

Reporting schemas

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Schema linkages

• This schema contains the elements common to all schemas including the enumeration lists.

• Some degree of overlap in enumeration lists in order to– Reduce mistakes– Follow strictly the agreements in the reporting sheets (e.g. Level of detail)

WFD Common

WFD Common

Used in the context of SW Monitoring

Used in the context of exemptions

Used in the context of

ecological status methodologies

• This schema deals with the identification of Competent Authorities, River Basin Districts and Sub-units

• In principle it is expected that there will only be one file per Member State

• Sub-units are only relevant for surface waters and for some MS

• It is linked with most of the other schemas through the RBD code

River Basin Districts and Competent Authorities

Schema linkages

• These three schemas are related

• The SWB and GWB provide all the information at water body level – Characterisation of the water body (including category, typology, area/length)– Pressures and impacts– Status

• The SWB and GWB include the association of water bodies with protected areas

– Allowing a many to many relationship

• The schema Protected Areas contains the register of protected areas and provides information on each area

– If reported previously under other legislation the PA code should be maintained so that a cross reference to other reporting streams is possible

Surface water bodies, Groundwater bodies and Protected areas

Schema linkages

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• These schemas basically contain all textual information that has to do with methodologies for:– Characterisation of the RBD (identification of water bodies,

typology, designation of HMWB, further characterisation for GW)– Pressure and impact analysis– Classification of status

• Surface water: ecological, including specific pollutants, and chemical• Grounwater: quantitative, chemical including threshold values, upward

trends and trend reversal – Exemptions

Surface water and ground water methodologies

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• This schema contains information about– The RBMP preparation, elaboration, public participation and

consultation process, dates, etc– The contents of the POM: basic measures, supplementary

measures, costs, international coordination...– The overall information on pressures for surface and

groundwater at RBD level– The overall information on application of exemptions at RBD

level– The economic analysis of the RBD and measures related to

WFD Article 9

RBMP and POM

• Three schemas:– Monitoring programmes– Surface water monitoring stations– Ground water monitoring stations

• Flexibility to include information at sub-programme level or at site level

• See WRc reports sent individually to Member States in December– Information on the type of monitoring should be reported at the individual site

level for all monitoring sites used for WFD purposes. For surface water sites, information should be provided on whether the site is used for surveillance and/or operational purposes, on the QEs monitored and the frequency of monitoring. For groundwater sites, information should be provided on whether the site is used for surveillance, operational and/or quantitative purposes, on the number of parameters monitored and the frequency of monitoring.

– Information on monitoring methods and programme design should be reported at the programme or subprogramme level as appropriate, and should be specific for each QE, water category and type of monitoring.

• Surveillance and operational monitoring should be clearly distinguished (QEs, frequency)

Monitoring