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Definition
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Data on emissions will be collected annually through the WISE-SoE Reporting process. Data and information obtained through the WISE-SoE Reporting process are primarily used to compile indicator factsheets, associated with the EEA's Core Set Indicators, upon which EEA assessment reports are based. Data collected through the WISE-SoE Reporting process are also published in Waterbase, a series of water topic-specific databases and web pages, publicly accessible via the EEA Data Service's web site. Data on the status and quantity of Europe's water resources can be viewed, analysed and downloaded from Waterbase at:
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/avail...
Full details of the data requested on emissions are presented in this specification and include emissions of nutrients, organic matter and hazardous substances from a range of both point and diffuse sources.
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Methodology for obtaining data
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Summary of changes in 2011
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IMPORTANT CHANGE !!!
Codelist of Nutrients was updated by following way:
- CODES OF 2 SUBSTANCES WERE CHANGED (harmonized with Groundwater quality reporting category):
Total Organic Carbon 2010: 554 -> 2011: 1299
Total Nitrogen 2010: 550 -> 2011: 1321
- determinand Biochemical Oxygen Demand was removed, new determinands BOD5 and BOD7 are added instead
- determinand Chemical Oxygen Demand was removed, new determinands CODMn and CODCr are added instead.
Codelist of Hazardous Substances was slightly updated:
Hazardous substances "Dichloromethane dissolved" and "Trichloromethane dissolved" were removed, use remaining substances Dichloromethane and Trichloromethane instead (these substances are allways dissolved, it was confusing to keep dissolved / non-dissolved duplicity in the list of substances).
Other minor changes were applied to this codelist (correction of few names; several substances were added).
Codelist of River Basin District codes has been updated according to the RBD GIS reference layer version 1.4.
Codelists of River Basin District SubUnit codes and names have been created according to the RBDSU GIS reference layer version 1.4.
Emission field in all tables - text of the Definition was modified to become more clear.
Tab-separated ASCII text is not accepted more as data delivery format. See item 8. in the section below.
Codelists of Nutrients and Hazardous substances (incl. specification of Preferred SoE Hazardous substances) as well as codelists of River Basin Districts and RBD SubUnits are available on the public section of Circa in Excel table format:
http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/eionet-circ...
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The data requested through the WISE-SoE Reporting process should be derived from existing national and/or regional sources within each EEA Member Country. Member Countries are asked to provide data on emissions. It is expected that these data should provide a general overview, based on truly comparable data, of emissions to water at a European level.
It is recognised that whilst Member Countries already report data under various obligations (e.g. UWWTD, E-PRTR and WFD) there may be information gaps in the data supplied in terms of the requirements of the EEA; for example, with respect to pollutant discharges from UWWT plants It is not the intention of the EEA that Member Countries should make duplicate deliveries of data, so any data already submitted via existing (legislative) reporting obligations need not be resupplied through the WISE-SoE Reporting process. Member Countries are only asked to provide missing or additional data. If data has been provided already under WFD, UWWTD, E-PRTR, or SoE Quantity reporting then please flag using value -1, - 2, - 3. - 4 or -5 respectively.
Especially in the case of comparison with E-PRTR reporting, we request that aggregated emissions data per spatial unit (preferably RBD) should include those emissions from the smaller facilities that are below the required E-PRTR threshold for reporting. If this information is not available and data reporting under E-PRTR emissions is indicated (via a flag), the ETC will aggregate those E-PRTR data.
Please consider the following when compiling your data delivery:
1. Submit data up to and including 2010. Do not supply any data for 2011.
2. Submit data on annual nutrient, organic matter and hazardous substances emissions aggregated at the national RBD level. If more spatially detailed information is available at sub-unit or water body level, then this would be appreciated.
3. Submit emissions data from both source (gross) and load (net) oriented approaches where available, providing full methodological details.. Source (gross) approaches estimate the emission to – but not within - an inland waterbody and do not account for retention (loss) processes within that waterbody. Load or net approaches describe a total pollutant load (ideally separated into source categories) at the river mouth or downstream point and, account for in-river processes.
4. Provide as long a time series of data, for as many determinands and as many individual source of pollutants as possible. To facilitate comparison of emissions data between years, it is preferred that assessment methods remain consistent over time. Any change in method should be clearly indicated.
5. Modify and add to the information on the characteristics of the spatial units used (national RBDs, sub-units or water bodies) Provide this permanent data only once for each assessment unit unless there are changes between reporting periods. Provide population information for each reporting unit. If information regarding proxy pressures has already been provided under WFD reporting, please flag using value -1.
6. Provide a data description with, for example, a summary of the methodology used for quantifying significant point and diffuse sources including a description of the following where appropriate: Screening criteria, numerical models (including whether they are source (gross) or load (net) based), data sources etc. All such information should be delivered in an accompanying text file.
7. Use the templates (XML schemas, MS Excel or MS Access) and these specifications to guide you in formatting and collating your data delivery. All are available for download from the data dictionary.
8. Supply data in XML, MS Excel (preferred) or MS Access format. In the case of Excel format, xls files (= Excel 1997 – 2003) can be used only. Do not use xlsx files. Ensure commas are not used as decimal separators. Please do not use formulas in Excel template fields, fill values only. In the case of MS Access format, it can be used for data delivery only in combination with XML or MS Excel format. The MS Access template has directly implemented functions for exporting data into these two formats.
9. Upload your data files to your nominated repository: the Central Data Repository at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ or your national Eionet server.
Categories of point and diffuse sources of emissions:
Point sources to coastal and transitional waters:
D0....Direct Discharges (total)
Point sources to inland waters:
U1....Urban Waste Water Untreated (U11-U14)
U2....Urban Waste Water Treated (U21-U24)
I3......Industrial Waste Water Treated
I4......Industrial Waste Water Untreated
O5....Other Waste Water Treated
O6....Other Waste Water Untreated
G7....Point Sources to GW (total)
Difuse (non-point) sources to inland waters:
NP1...Agriculture Emissions
NP2...Atmospheric Deposition
NP3...Un-Connected Dwellings Emissions
NP4...Urban Diffuse Emissions
NP5...Storm Overflows Emissions
NP6...Abandoned Industrial Sites Emissions
NP7...Other Diffuse Emissions
NP8...Background Emissions
More details are available in the emission data dictionary accompanying file: Emission Source Discharges Scheme and Legend, which is available on:
http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Public/irc/eionet-circ...
The ETC Water contact person for the WISE-SoE Emissions reporting is Hana Prchalova, based at the CENIA, Prague, Czech Republic. If you have any questions about the format and content of the data request, please contact her by e-mail at: hana.prchalova@cenia.cz.
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