Towards a regular assessment & reporting process based on SEIS UNECE/WGEMA meeting 1-2 November 2012.

Towards a regular assessment & reporting process based on SEIS

UNECE/WGEMA meeting 1-2 November 2012

Ministerial Declaration

14. ….’To keep the pan-European environment under review, we decide to establish a regular process of environmental assessment and to develop the SEIS across the region. These will serve multiple policy processes, including MEAs, and include capacity-building of countries in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia and South-Eastern Europe to monitor and assess their environment. We invite EEA and its partners to develop an outline for how these actions could be performed and to present it to the ECE Committee on Environmental Policy.’ … http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/env/documents/2011/ece/ece.astana.conf.2011.2.add.1.e.pdf

The mandate

• Keep the pan-European environment under review• Establish a regular process of environment

assessment• Develop a Shared Environmental Information

System

So that SEIS gradually develops to underpin future environment assessment and review activities

TWO time perspectives

• Short-term: 2012-2013• Medium/Long-term: 2014-2020and:• Regular monitoring & assessment of the

implementation process

SEIS and related EU policy instruments

a) SEIS communication 1/2008

c) SEIS staff working paper 6/2012 (EU internal) b) Communication on better implementation

3/2012

SEIS implementation in practiceStakeholders Why? What ?

(content)How? (infrastructure)

Who?(networks)

EU Better policies Env compliance INSPIREGMES

MS

EEA Improveassessments

Reporting activ. IndicatorsSENSE2

EIONET

Member States Streamline Rep. oblig. Data flows, CDR National and local authorities

ENP Harmonise Water, air, waste AoA, REPORTNET Env. & statistics

CA Trust cooperation

Water, air rep. oblig., MEAs

AoA, indicators Env. & statistics water bodies

Pan-European Monitor envCapacity building

Regular report CSI, AoA UNECE, MEAs, Int. org

Global Interoperability Monitoring status UNEP/Live, EoEData policyStandards

ISO, GEOSS, OGC,

SEIS implementation short-termStakeholders

Time frame What (content)

How (infrastructure)

Who(networks)

EEA 2012-2013 WISE, BISE, CLIMA-ADAPT, Air quality E-reporting

SENSE (indicators)SERIS (reports)INSPIRE (Geo spatial data services)EoE (web services) GEMET, SOER LiveData policy

EionetW BalkansGMES-in situ

ENP 2014 IndicatorsData flowsRegular Assessments

IT working group Env. & statistic networks

CA 2014 IndicatorsData flowsSOE

Env. & statistic networks

Global 2015 UNEP Live SOE Live GEOSS, GNON

Steps in the process so far

• Sept. 2011 –Astana Declaration• Oct. 2011 – WGEMA – first ideas on implementing the Astana

mandate • March 2012 – EEA MB – Discussing draft outline prepared for

CEP• April 2012 – EU WPIEI – Discussing Astana follow up actions and

EU position to CEP meeting • April-Sept. 2012 - Comments and proposals to the draft outline • July- onwards – Dialogue with key partners (MEAs, EU, OECD,

UNEP, RECs) • October 2012 - Revised draft outline available for UNECE/CEP

and WGEMA

Other SEIS related activitiesCapacity building• ENP/SEIS - Workshops on SEIS/infrastructure and indicators

for both East and South (*)• Caspian sea- Env information system (together with

UNEP/Grid) Sept.2012• Central Asia - Aware project including SEIS national events

New SEIS projects• Central Asia – tendering closed on 1 Oct. for FLERMONECA

project (including SEIS extension); expected start 2013• Caspian – new SEIS related project for consideration for EU

funding

Relevant SEIS events

• SEIS dedicated side event in Rio –June 2012 (attended by UNECE, UNEP, CAREC and EEA members)

• Central Asia – EU panel on environment and climate change (Sept. 2012) – SEIS development endorsed as priority for cooperation in new fin. perspective 2014-2020;

• ENP/Steering Committee (21-22 Nov. Copenhagen)• Central Asia- EU –high level meeting on env. issues (to

endorse the proposed priorities 10-11 Dec. Bishkek, tbc.)• The first Eye on Earth user conference (4-6 March 2013,

Dublin)

SEIS Action Plan

• Develop the next SOER cycle in a consistent way across region, using the indicators developed with associated assessments , following DPSIR framework

• Underpin the indicators used in the next SOER by regular data flows

• Streamline the activity of existing networks towards creating building blocks in the MDIAR(K) process for regular reporting

Points for discussion

• Role of WGEMA and JTF in the process• Coordination of networks at national level• Planned deliverables and timetable• Contributions to mid term review (2013)

SEIS in action

Snapshot of EEA/SEIS activities

Multiple use of information for EEA assessments

EEA Knowledge

Base

(incl indicators)

(Dedicated) theme-sector specific assessments / reports

Integrated environmental

assessment reports

(Regular) SOER-type thematic assessments

FLIS IMS / CSI SENSE

A B C

11 GMT fiches 20-30 thematic fiches 39 country fiches

11 to 44 indicators 37 to 200 indicators 8 to 37 indicators

SYN

Synthesis report

3 indicator reports & stakeholder workshops

2012

2013

2014

Synthesis &

Derivatives

Global Megatrends

Thematic SOE summaries

Country-levelSOE summaries

Signals 2015 and other derivatives

? ?Reportnet

(incl. PDF, ...)Eionet

(incl. SERIS)FLIS

Dyn

am

ic in

form

ati

on

SOER2015

SOE Live

IMS relation with other parts of the information system

Indicator = Specification + assessment Data sources(with metadata)

Data visualization (with metadata)

Graphs

Maps

Daviz

Eye on Earth

Map viewers

AQ e-Reporting ?

• A new system for reporting air quality information

• A single system for all regulatory & informative reporting

• Modernised and standards based, to make full use of computers and the internet to deliver

Automation

Reliability / consistency

Medium to long-term savings

Enhanced information sharing

• All existing systems replaced as of 1 January 2014

Overview of the transition to air quality e-Reporting

VALIDATED AQ DATA

•Compliance data•Additional exchanged data

AQ Questionnaire Reporting•Attainment info•Exposure info•Area info•AQ management zones

PROVISIONAL

DATA•Up to date data•Summer ozone•Comparison with Alert & Info thresholds

AQ plans•Exceedance info•Source apportionment

•Projections•Measures

XML

New XML-based transmission(all AQ dataflows)

Currently reported and exchange information:

XML-based air quality data reporting and exchange under the current mechanism

Nationalor

regional

database

EEAdatabase

InitialQA/QC

Up-to-date datatransmission34 countries +

Russia, US

Public

EEA’s web pages

Eye on Earth

National/regional public

O3 summer exceedances calculations

Other European projects

AQ stations

Provisional data

Consistency between national/regional and EEA

databases!!!

Re-transmission Corrected data

Current XML reporting

Shared Infrastructures and Tools

Informationproducts

Contentregistry

Datadictionary

Reportingobligations

EEAdata

services

Dataexchangemodules

Networkdirectory

Datarepository

Data handling

Data reporting Data dissemination

UNEP Live components Relevant EEA existing infratructure components SEIS

1. Integrated Search

2. Reports

3. Maps and Graphics

4. Data and Indicators

5. My Country

6. Near Real-Time Alerts

7. Crowd Sourcing

8. SOE-Live

Synergies UNEP Live – EEA SOE Live

UNEP Live components Relevant EEA existing infratructure components SEIS

1. Integrated Search Semantic Data Service , Environmental Discovery Service ETDS, GEMET

2. Reports Publications

3. Maps and Graphics Maps and Graphs, Discomap

4. Data and Indicators Reportnet, Data service, Indicator Management System

5. My Country Country Assessments , Country fiches

6. Near Real-Time Alerts Watches EoE, GMES

7. Crowd Sourcing Eye on Earth

8. SOE-Live SENSE , SERIS, AoA

Synergies UNEP Live – EEA SOE Live

Multi-lingual Thesaurus GEMET

Reportnet Central Data Repository

Reporting Obligations Database

Data Centre Services

Semantic Data Service

State of the Environment Reporting Information System SERIS

Europe's Environment Assessment of Assessments EE-AoA

Indicator Management System

Sharing European and National State of the Environment - SENSE

Forward-Looking Information and Services (FLIS)

EUNIS - Linked env. data and information

EIONET-Forum - infrastructure

Interest groupInterest

group

ZOPEApplication server

NaayaContent management system

EIONET Forum

Interest group

EnviroWindows

CHMBiodiv

BISE

Portal/websiteCustomise

Toolkits Customise/developNew features

CMSDevelopment/use

Application serveruse

EEA Multimedia Services

Eye on Earth

Open government – Open data

Portal ready by end of 2012Member State portal to be launched in 2013EEA will share all its environmental data

SEIS ENPI - Cookbook

• A set of case studies collected from EEA Member and Cooperating countries and ENPI partner countries.

• A SEIS Checklist comprising a set of questions designed to assess the status of SEIS development and identify possible gaps and areas for further enhancement.

• Steps to be taken into account when planning SEIS implementation.

• Useful links.

http://www.seiscookbook.net

A Case study:

• Gives light on how to translate SEIS principles into practice

• Addresses real examples of implementation (currently 25 case studies)

• Identifies a series of services/tools that can be (re)used to meet the SEIS principles in a range of contexts

• Provides a SEIS barometer to benchmark your system / process

List of case studies

SEIS implementation plan – DG ENV

• Inter-service consultation of a EC staff working paper SEIS implementation plan

• Publication end 2012 (tbc.)• Introducing SIIFs (Structured

implementation and information frameworks)• EEA is supporting pilot SIIFs on:

• Air quality• Urban waste water treatment

Thank you !

http://www.eea.europa.eu/