1 Improving waste water management – support from the European Structural and Investment Funds 4 th meeting of the CoR/EC Technical Platform for Cooperation on the Environment Wednesday 8 October 2014 Structured Implementation and Information Frameworks (SIIFs) with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive European Commission Directorate General for Environment Unit C.2 - Marine Environment & Water Industry Jeroen CASAER SIIF's: the origin • Concept introduced in the 2012 Implementation Communication (COM(2012)95) • Identified as an action to improve implementation of the environmental acquis in the 7the Environmental Action Programme (Decision No 1386/2013/EU, priority objective 4, action 65) • DG ENV launched a pilot project for the UWWTD aiming to: • Provide a good understanding and define the SIIF concept (phase 1) • To elaborate an operational SIIF IT system together wit a few MS (phase 2) • SIIF pilot inspired by excellent FR government website (see next presentation)
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Improving waste water management –support from the European Structural
and Investment Funds
4th meeting of the CoR/EC Technical Platform for Cooperation on the Environment
Wednesday 8 October 2014
Structured Implementation and Information Frameworks (SIIFs)
with the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
European Commission
Directorate General for Environment
Unit C.2 - Marine Environment & Water Industry
Jeroen CASAER
SIIF's: the origin
• Concept introduced in the 2012 Implementation
Communication (COM(2012)95)
• Identified as an action to improve implementation of the environmental acquis in the 7the Environmental Action Programme (Decision No 1386/2013/EU, priority objective 4, action 65)
• DG ENV launched a pilot project for the UWWTD aiming to:• Provide a good understanding and define the SIIF concept (phase 1)
• To elaborate an operational SIIF IT system together wit a few MS (phase 2)
• SIIF pilot inspired by excellent FR government website(see next presentation)
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SIIFs: overall aim
• Designed to improve implementation of environment legislation through better online information on how laws work in practice
• Helps national authorities, the Commission, the public and stakeholders:• To assess implementation based on accurate up to date data
• To design and implement measures to fill compliance gaps
• To provide accurate up to date info to the public on water services
EU website(s) and all otherdata and map viewers
National website(s), data and map wiewers
Automaticexchange of data
EU DBs
NationalDBs
SIIF APPROACH and PRINCIPLES
The information
1 - Focus on compliance
2 - Be easy to access and focus on user'sneed
3 - Be up-to-date, accurate and comparable
4 - Be forward Looking
The Process
5 - Decentralize, self-assess and qualify
6 - Share automatically
7 - Increase efficiency and reduceadministrative burden
8 - Develop step-by-step
EU
MS
Creation of national UWWTD websites
Sharing information
EU-MS
Improvement of EU map viewer and website
SIIF PROJECT 2014
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DG-ENV/EEA/MS
Environmental reporting
e.g. collection system
(art. 3) or treatment
plant (Art. 4)
EPERTR UWWTP,
Different UWW data, working together
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SIIF versus INSPIRE
SIIFINSPIRE
SIIF principles• Focused on compliance• Be up to date, accurate and
comparable• Be forward looking• Self assess and qualify• Developped step by step
SIIF principles• Be easy to access and focus on
user's need• Decentralise• Share automatically• Increase efficiency and reduce
administrative burden
Development of national and EU website(s) and IT tools