Reporting obligation for: River quality (EWN-1)

Title	River quality (EWN-1)
Description	Data on rivers are collected annually through the WISE-SoE data collection process. WISE SoE was previously known as EUROWATERNET (EWN) and EIONET-Water. Biological quality elements in rivers are integrated into reporting of Rivers water quality starting from 2012 reporting period. The data requested on rivers includes the physical characteristics of the river monitoring stations, proxy pressures on the upstream catchment areas, as well as chemical quality data on nutrients and organic matter, and hazardous substances in rivers. It also includes the biological data (primarily calculated as national Ecological Quality Ratios), as well as information on the national classification systems for each Biological Quality Element and waterbody type. This reporting obligation is an EIONET Priority Data flow Reporting under this obligation is used for EEA Core set of indicators
Legislative instrument title	EEA AMP
Reporting dates and guidelines
National reporting coordinators	National Focal Points (eionet-nfp)
National reporting contacts	EIONET PCPs and NRCs for Rivers and Lakes (eionet-nrc-riverslakes)
Reporting frequency	Annually
Next report due	31/10/2013
Date comments
Report to	European Environment Agency
Other clients using this reporting
Reporting guidelines	Guidelines and templates available through the Reportnet Data Dictionary [Valid since 03/08/2012]
Extra information	A formal request is sent to NFPs and NRCs every year with reference to templates to use and guidelines. The guidelines are being updated every year. In 2012 the request was also sent to Ecostat network and national contact points who provided biological test data in 2009 and 2011(available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwate...). Letter on WISE SoE data request 2012 is available at http://icm.eionet.europa.eu/announcements/wise_soe... The general content of reporting as agreed by Water Directors is described in the guidance document "Reporting required for assessing the state of, and trends in, the water environment at the European level" (February 2009), which includes reporting sheets for several EEA SoE data flows, available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwate... In addition, updated and new SoE reporting sheets for biology in rivers and lakes (July 2010) are also available on the NRC EIONET Freshwater interest group library (subfolder SOE- reporting guidance Eionet/WFD CIS) at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwate...
Principle repository	CDR
Data used for	Waterbase - Rivers including biology in rivers
Type of information reported	Data, State of the environment