Chemical monitoring activity under the common implementation strategy of the WFD

Abstract

The future monitoring programmes under the Water Framework Directive will represent a cornerstone for European environmental assessment, which will be closely coordinated with European Environment Agency’s State of the Environment (SoE) reporting in the context of WISE (Water Information System for Europe). The wide-scale gathering of monitoring data will be of obvious interest to all those involved in environmental sciences. Harmonisation will, however, be required to make sure that monitoring data will be of comparable quality. This news article is an extended version from information provided in the newly published WISE Newsletter, which is the bulletin of information of the EC Environment Directorate-General’s Water & Marine unit (http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/water/).