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1. reference value and d quality levels are derived from the respective fields of the reference sheet Please note that the quality levels are shown with the boundaries assembled in a solitary cell The field marked d contains the observed value which is the value recorded in that water body of that specific MedWet site for each parameter of each quality element In other words the observed value fields are the only fields to be filled in on the water body sheet No other parameter is changeable in the WB sheet Although it is not necessary to compile all parameters it is recommended to enter as many fields as you can especially in case of good or high quality environments see 8 3 3 4 for details THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE The field number 8 calculates a simple ratio Ecological Quality Ratio between the observed value and the reference value or vice versa The field number 6 then assigns that ratio to a quality level comparing the ratio to the corresponding boundaries established in the relative water body type profile of the reference sheet After quality levels have been calculated they are displayed with the background colour of their cells changing according to the calculated quality level as depicted in Figure 3 3 4b below sno ez 30 30 365 oT one Out all out RESULTING VALUE 3 00 Figure 3 3 4b Screenshot of Calculated Quality Levels Note the last col
2. Figure 3 1a Screenshot of Software installed on Desktop Once you select model as file type MS Excel redirects you to save the file in the models directory 3 2 Software appearance The software is initiated by selecting File New then choosing the start from model option In the general tab there will be the MWD MEDWET model option Once opened you will see a screenshot like this THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE MECODDE M e Wet gt ARPAT WFD CODOR 9 IN TERREG LLTLIL 5 we Balkan 3 4 M MEDWET SITE a H Figure 3 2a Med Wet Site Sheet Screenshot Note that when starting a new file two sheets are displayed e MEDWET SITE sheet The Reference sheet named RefSheet 3 2 1 MedWet site sheet The first sheet MedWet Site contains some fields regarding general site information There are three major areas Site 15 map see section a of Figure 3 2a General site data see section Water bodies see section d i The site map area can host a bmp or jpg image of the area This option could allow the rough visualisation of the different categories and types of water bodies included in the wetland to perform this action click Set site map button and choose the image you want to load The General site data area hosts informatio
3. followed by the name of the institution and the date of validation This section is able to host several WB profiles all of them ending with the name of the creator and the validator 17 18 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 3 2 3 Water body sheets Once a water body sheet is generated see 8 3 3 for details a screenshot like this will appear aniei uiuit WI PEDET SUE ESE Figure 3 2 3a Screenshot of a Water Body Sheet Elements table Section For each water body created there will be a water body sheet like that shown in Figure 3 2 3a The name of this sheet consists of the acronym WB followed by the first ten letters of the name you assigned to the water body Note that this name corresponds to the Sheet name Sh name of the MedWet Site sheet but not necessarily to the name of the whole wetland this in the case of it being composed of more than one single water body This name can be changed although preserving the original one is recommended The authors strictly advise against manually deleting the sheets because this action would lead to instability and errors in performing calculations and other operations To erase a WB select it in the MedWet Site sheet and click Delete WB button This sheet is divided into three sections The first upper one is locked and useful only for r
4. 2 Good Better Worse Better Worse Better Worse Better Worse Better Worse EI ud 0707 040 040 030 030 010 E 010 000 Figure 3 3 2b Boundaries of the EOR for a given Parameter The second part of the row shows five double values that represent the boundaries of the EQR for each class shown in the upper bar of the quality element highlighted with their respective colour For example the value of 0 10 on level 4 POOR status of the first row represents the higher and in this case worse boundary of that level the observed value being 10 times higher than the reference value for that parameter this is a case of inverse mode EQR REF VALUE OBSERV VALUE It is only possible to change red circled values Unchangeable boundaries are dynamically connected with changeable ones to prevent possible mistakes during the compilation For example in case 1 of Figure 3 3 2b the better value of level 2 is the same as the worse value of level 1 THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE The field furthest right for each parameter is the Used field This field specifies if the corresponding parameter to determine the quality level of the element is in use or not Set to NO that parameter will be excluded from the computation and will remain so until set to YES again Figure 3 3 2c Combining criterion of a given Parameter The Combining criterion field d is a
5. Annex XI map A The Mediterranean Ecoregions are highlighted in red on the WFD Data form first page The Ecoregions are also defined in WFD Annex XI map A page L 327 71 The name of the Ecoregion to which the wetland site belongs is entered in the box provided National International River Basin WFD Art 2 13 National International River Basin codes should be obtained from each country s national water information network appropriate agencies Ministry of Environment water authorities etc The relevant code is entered in the box provided National River Sub Basin WFD Art 2 14 National River Sub Basin codes should be obtained from each country s national water information network appropriate agencies Ministry of Environment water authorities etc The relevant code is entered in the box provided National River Basin District WFD Art 2 15 National River Basin District codes should be obtained from each country s national water information network appropriate agencies Ministry of Environment water authorities etc The relevant code is entered in the box provided Ecoregion for transitional and coastal waters WFD Annex XI map BA The relevant Ecoregions for the MedWet Wetland Inventory system are highlighted in red in the WFD Data form They are also shown in WFD Annex XI map B page L 327 72 The name of the Ecoregion to which the wetland site belongs is entered in the box provided For more detail see
6. XI map B 2 Wetland site typology under the WFD Categories WFD Art 2 2 2 10 The assignment of a wetland site to a Water Body category or vice versa should have been conducted already at national level by all European Countries This means that national lists of significant Water Bodies WB divided into types of WB ought to exist Whether lists exist or not careful reading of the WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 is advised as the document outlines the process for determining wetland body types Relevant selected text from that document is given in the final part of this manual 8 4 1 3 Ecoregion and surface water body type The WFD requires that Member States identify the relevant surface water bodies not only with respect to the category rivers lakes transitional coastal heavily modified and artificial plus groundwaters but also to a further extent type Member States also have to establish reference conditions for these types The main purpose of type identification is consequently to enable type specific reference conditions to be defined which in turn is used as the anchor of the classification system The following information addresses the specific issues concerning types e Water body types may be differentiated using one of two systems System A or System B see Water Framework Directive pages L327 23 to L327 27 The two systems are similar in that they contain the same obligatory factors geographic position a
7. boundaries between the five classes of water quality high good moderate poor bad WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 outlines the features of the three main quality element groups The relevant text from that document is reproduced in the final part of this manual 8 4 2 Reference conditions for all Water Body types have to be established by the Member States and the EU through the THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Common Implementation Strategy CIS and the work of the Geographical Intercalibration Groups GlGs has to ensure that reference conditions for the different Countries and types are comparable This work is still in progress at individual Member State level At the end of the process they will be fixed definitively 5 Wetland site status It is not possible to assign an overall quality status to a wetland site under the WFD because the WFD considers Water Bodies and not wetland sites as a whole Therefore the tables in 5 represent the status of the wetland site as a mosaic of WBs Each WB Class is represented in terms of its surface 96 The tables allocate places for all the specific items requested by the WFD The work of the GlGs and the intercalibration process generally is described in 8 5 on page 38 of this manual INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 2 WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE DATA FORM 10 parehas Explanations and descriptions of ho
8. the understanding of the WFD is strongly advised to make trials and proofs to test the functionality of the system using copied trial sheets It is good to bear in mind that the MedWet CODDE B xlt system is only an independent unofficial tool useful for calculating the status of wetlands Afterwards and separately this status will be reported in the appropriate boxes of the MedWet WIS systems Of course no tracks of these attempts are automatically reported in the WIS 3 3 1 Setting up site data The first step is to compile the General site data section which provides the relevant information for that MedWet site in the MEDWET SITE sheet The information required is stored in these fields e Country Site code and name Terrestrial ecoregion e Marine ecoregion 20 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS Altitude range e National international river basin National river sub basin National river basin district Fields marked with are already codified and presented in a list as represented in the MEDWET countries The others are site specific information These fields should be left blank because in the future a European level coding of river basins might be activated Note that the combination of codes and list selectable names has been done to facilitate the task of an exporting routine to future databases Eventually you can put a bitmap inside the Site Map section by clicking
9. under the CIS Common Implementation Strategy Initiative to provide adequate information on how to implement the stringent requirements of the Directive The present contribution does not intend to substitute these Documents Instead it aims to be a guidance tool for the comprehension of the WFD strategy The EC Guidance Documents are all available at http forum europa eu int Public irc env wfd library I framework_directive guidance_documents amp vm detailed amp sb Title Given the implementation implications of the Directive relating to data availability and set boundaries for quality the introduction of a Data Form devoted to the WFD in the MedWet CODDE project provides a useful and necessary exercise and experiment for dealing with possible uncertainties and difficulties arising from the implementation of the Directive itself 1 2 Concepts of the WFD in the WFD Data Form The overall rationale of the WFD is to set the values of several biological hydro morphological and physico chemical n parameters so that through them it is possible to determine Water Body status among the five established Quality classes for all water types The primary objective here is to provide guidance for the completion of the WFD Data form of the MedWet CODDE project under the WFD criteria In order to do this it is important to understand the WFD concepts which determine the structure form and rationale of the WFD Data form fields This manual th
10. which guide the reader through the entire process from the early pioneering work to joining using and getting the best out of the system Purpose and aims of the manual The purpose of this manual is to allow to the compiler of the MedWet Web Information System MedWet WIS to fill in the WFD Data Form Water Framework Directive 60 2000 EC This is the data form for the WFD module one of the six MedWet WIS modules The WFD data form contains the fields needed to describe the location and quality status of EU wetlands under the WFD criteria The INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS WFD treats every wetland as a series of Water Bodies which can range from one to several as identified by the Member States in their national lists This manual is the reference source for the use of the WFD Data Form In particular the manual aims to Explain the rationale for incorporating the WFD in the MedWet WIS Data Forms Describe the fields contained in the data form and their links to the WFD chapters and paragraphs so that the compiler is aware of the scale and the extent of the WFD geographical coverage and quality requirements Provide detailed instructions on using the WFD_CODDE xIt downloadable tool to familiarize the compiler with the criteria used to assign quality status to the water bodies as the constituent parts of wetlands and to underline the importance of the parameters used to define that status Struc
11. 08 iii surveillance programmes for hydrochemistry and soil elements or for wetland birds refer to The Surveillance Module Farinha amp Fonseca 2008 As an end product to these data recording exercises users may wish to undertake statistical calculations and derive indicators for Status and trends relating to wetland area water quality threats bird populations and wetland extent covered by Ramsar designation In such cases they are advised to refer to The Indicators Module Fitoka et al 2008a The above manuals can be accessed through the present cdrom menu or by downloading from the Downloads section of the MedWet WIS at www wetlandwis net THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1 Background One of the most challenging issues in the study of wetlands is the use of absolute criteria to describe wetland status from a trophic chemical or general point of view In undertaking this work the manager or the scientist is guided by the newly adopted Water Framework Directive 2000 60 EC which gives clear parameters to assess and monitor at the very least the water quality of each wetland type The Water Framework Directive WFD takes into account not only rivers and lakes but also coastal transitional and ground waters and this allows a very comprehensive evaluation of all the wetland types for which a status assessment is required Over fifteen Guidance Documents have been produced by the EC
12. Agenzia regionale per la protezione ambientale della Toscana uo INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Mario Cenni and Sergio Tarsiero Nick J Riddiford scientific reviewer led Wet sus vas us o4 THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE us ARPAT INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS IHE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Mario Cenni and Sergio Tarsiero Nick J Riddiford scientific reviewer m MedWet__ INTERREG INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS Readers are welcome to reproduce texts figures and images featured in this publication provided credit is given to the authors and to the copyright holders The presentation of material in this work and the geographical designations employed do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of any of the agencies involved concerning the legal status of any country territory or area or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries This manual should be cited as follows Cenni M amp Tarsiero S 2008 Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands The Water Framework Directive Module MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford ISBN 978 960 6858 04 8 ISBN set 978 960 6858 00 0 The current work is published in the MedWet series Inventory ass
13. Compiling the reference 20 3 3 3 Creating and deleting water body SHEETS csssssssscssssssscsecsecsssscsecsessssscsecsesssssssecsecsssssscsecssssssscssesseassucssenseassassseassassessseaseaseeses 25 3 3 4 Compiling water body sheets ass cessssccanstcinverassstiosseecacnsavsezeraasosursi cscoecatneenaszensantocangsqsawennnsvtbaestecetiensteceaye oasesgeaveasnstsannvbcqnstscenssarbotias 26 33 5 Water DOAVSstalustalcUlatio tar 27 SE Additonal Noantri 30 4 SELECTED TEXTS FROM THE WED CIS GUIDANCE DOCUMENT N0 2 rire 31 4 1 Selected text pertaining to section 2 of the WFD Data Form scssssssessessssssessesssecsesssssssessesscsscsecsessesscsecsessesscsecsecseeseeseess 31 4 2 Selected text pertaining to section 4 of the WFD Data Form ccssssssssessessssssesssssssscsesssssssessessesscsscsessessesscsesseesesscsecaeeseeseens 34 ANNEX THE INTERCALIBRATION PROCESS ccccesssssssssssssssssssssssscsussucsucsscssssussscsucsucsucsucsucsscsucsucsucsscsucsucsecsucscascsscsecsucsucsenseses 35 REFERENCES Gul lla 36 THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE ABOUT THIS MANUAL The new MedWet series The manual for The Water Framework Directive Module is part of the new series nventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands published under the auspices of the MedWet information and knowledge network for the sustainable development of wetland ecos
14. Directive Knowledge of this process is provided for background information it is not a prerequisite for the use of this module Who should use this manual This manual is intended for users with a basic to good degree of knowledge and experience of the Water Framework Directive It can however also provide some help to users less familiar with the principles of the WFD by explaining the WFD s functions and rules and providing a source of reference for those users interested in a fuller understanding of the Directive To get maximum benefit from the software users will need to store their data in the MedWet WIS Therefore they should familiarize themselves with the MedWet Web Information System User Manual Katsaros et al 2008 regarding the use of MedWet WIS tools and the MedWet Inventory Data Sharing Protocol Fitoka et al 2008b for understanding the framework of defined procedures applied for data stored in the MedWet WIS Users are also advised to refer to the other manuals in the new MedWet series which provide specific detail relating to the relevant wetland data recommended for wetland inventories These manuals are of particular relevance to users contemplating or undertaking the following inventory approaches i broad scale inventory refer to The Pan Mediterranean Module Tomas Vives 2008 ii simple or detailed inventory of wetland sites and their catchments refer to The Catchment Module amp The Site Module Farinha et al 20
15. FD concepts and Data Form described above his her main task will be to download and implement the software which permits the construction of the database on which the WFD purpose of monitoring and assessment will rely There follows a detailed step by step description of this process 3 1 Installation Required software Office 2003 XP The software comes in a package zip file containing the following files WFD CODDE B xIt the program document template Lakes general wbt a standard lake profile file for exercises Other real profiles updated and definitive for different types of WBs will be downloadable each time on the WIS website or can be built manually after the compiler obtains the official values for the type The software code is embedded inside an Excel document template xlt To install it please perform the following operations 1 Unzip the file WFD CODDEZIP in a specific directory e g C WFD_CODDE 2 Right click on the document model WFD CODDE B xlt on the context menu select open 3 Open the save as file dialog and select document model type You will be redirected to the Excel document model folder 4 Save the file Generale soluzioni foglio di calcolo Modeli office 97 y rz Emm Cartels di WADIS 14 levano dhakke fitoplancton version 2 WADIS WADIS WADIS WADIS abi version 2 1 feta Model dal sto Office Onine sonda
16. HN AE wa T 5 ameter cnc j Measurement Se Beier Viren Beter Morte Betler _ Verte Beier 16 Dica de rane Reterence value flore creo 0M 30 j 300 600 6500 3S0 1 eat WF Paameter lTzxpnpmi compouton 1d und General 1 Wiese Worse Vivis 10 ERE rer 1 Feteranen value foo 11201 9 1 059 on om om I 20 Combining criterion nut ali ul 21 22 23 3 5 w 27 28 a 30 n 32 E 3 Figure 3 2 2a Reference Sheet Screenshot As shown in Figure 3 2 2a section of the sheet comprises the upper three rows which locked and always visible This section is useful to surf inside the reference sheet and manage its content using two toolbars The first one WB Profiles operations allows the user to add erase import and export profiles the one already loaded is lake wbt but is only a test file or to scroll the window from one profile to another see illustration below and 5 3 3 The second one Parameters operations allows the user to add or delete parameters from a profile see also Figure 3 2 2b below and 8 3 3 This sheet is a collector of profiles which are the reference conditions and the quality class boundaries of the water body types you have uploaded or built up The list of profiles can be completely rearra
17. ITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS The software s calculation of all the water body sheets allows the quality level of each and every WB to be displayed the MedWet site datasheet O INSUFF DATA 0 INSUFF DATA gt m be E a k INSUFF DATA O IMSUFF DATA O mSuFF DATA DATA INSUFF DATA 3 Xx n ESI 34 EJ N EJ Figure 3 3 5d Water Bodies their Single Evaluation and the Overall Evaluation 3 4 Additional notes This software has been coded as an Excel document template to respond to three important issues 1 Simplify the interface programming and consequently the code required 2 Utilize the functions of an already widespread and known software 3 Integrate it easily with other spreadsheet data sources This version in particular meets two important needs 1 The means to create modify import and export water body type reference files 2 The need for a safer environment in which the user can modify only the proper cells Anyone who would like to suggest functionalities can send an email to m cenni arpat toscana it describing the issue clearly Once the quality class for each WB ofthe wetland site is obtained it should be inserted in Table A5 1 ofWFD_Dataform doc of the MedWet_CODDE project A word of Caution Please note that this Excel file is only a calculator and is not a guide to respecting t
18. ONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS In the y axis of the table the quality element groups are displayed The x axis shows the order of magnitude of the assessment At the element level resulting values of each quality element are reported and their relative class and explanation are displayed Of course if the water body sheet has just been created there will only be one set of data and this will be insufficient for any kind of assessment It is only when data are entered in the Observed value of the Water body status sheet that the situation will change Once all the data fields are compiled the sheet will perform a correct assessment of the water body see Figure 3 3 5b Please note that instead of the categories high good moderate poor and other assessments like worse than high and worse than good may appear HIGH GOL GOOD HIGH iu Figure 3 3 5b Status Calculation ofa Water body after an adequate Data Insertion At the second level of assessment the element group level there is a further evaluation of the biological quality elements in order to assess the general quality level of the biological element group This assessment is statutory WFD and is obtained using the one out all out method alone following the principle that the worse quality element status affects and limits the other ones In the case shown in Figure 3 3 5b
19. acda 28 00 2007 3 68 recent l harena 3KB File WEP 22 00 2007 12 02 Nestet 23kB Foglio 20 02 2007 13 21 i S copa d 489 KB Foglio di loro dii 2A 0 f2007 9 10 Desktop alfano Fis 28 02 2007 14 95 I lakes DEB Fis wee 24 02 2007 16 08 Ex E lakes normal fie WEP TOON 4 55 EY i lakes ordinary 1EB File WEP 28 00 2007 14 21 Document S MEDWET Medie Ale HTH nes 13 06 i PEDWET Medie 54 KB Pie Hih 2a 2007 11 57 EB d liano d ZEJUCTDOQUT 6 14 Ma Bp tees arate L 506 KB Documento dien 28 02 2007 18 03 users Manual WF PSUR Docugmentnd Mice 28 02 2007 14 25 ni Dabasheet hice Pr H A Hn Fascrse di rehe Tio he Daama di Mera IZXOCIODT 10 48 a 24 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS To importa profile follow the steps described below 1 In the WB PROFILES operations toolbar select the Export button 2 A standard File open box will appear Since the software is able to understand if the file selected is a real profile type it can be imported without any risk 20112007 16 36 Backup d User s 1 331 di User s Documento di bach 2840212007 14 28 3 JKD Fie WEP 22 02 2007 12 02 cate 23WB Foglio di M 20 02 2007 13 21 Copia d 111 st 46908 Fogliodilivor
20. and adjacent to the channel that s structure and condition is directly relevant to the achievement of the values for the biological quality 33 elements i e the riparian zone and b the relevant biological elements In relation to wetlands this means that those wetlands must be associated with a water body which are directly influencing the status of the related water body The boundaries of such wetlands must be identified in a pragmatic way in order to meet the requirement of a discrete and significant element The question of wetlands in the context of the Water Framework Directive will be subject to a separate Guidance Documents G D n 12 under the umbrella of the Common Implementation Strategy It is recommended that this Guidance on wetlands which will emerge in the first half of 2003 should develop the understanding of wetlands as a component of a surface water in more detail G D n 2 continues with a Specific guidance on bodies of groundwater 3 The Article 4 1 a iii priority substances objectives apply to all surface waters regardless of whether they are identified as surface water bodies 34 Annex V 1 1 amp Annex V 1 2 34 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 4 2 Selected text pertaining to section 4 of theWFD Data Form The following text has been taken directly from the WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 and provides further more detailed information re
21. but only their results For the selection of sites information was scarce for most of the biological quality elements This was mainly because there were no national monitoring systems in place that made use of these elements and also met the requirements of the WFD to be type specific Therefore some of the sites were selected on the basis of information on only one or two quality elements This does not limit the usefulness of those sites as intercalibration is carried out at quality element level More information on the chosen sites will be publicly available soon Organisation of the work The intercalibration work is led by Working Group A on Ecological Status under the WFD Common Implementation Strategy and the technical work is coordinated by the European Commission s Joint Research Centre JRC in Ispra Italy The intercalibration exercise is carried out within 14 Geographical Intercalibration Groups GlGs These are groups of Member States that share ecological types of rivers lakes and coastal transitional waters and can thus compare monitoring results between themselves Examples of river lakes and coastal GlGs are Mediterranean rivers Northern lakes or North East Atlantic More than 500 experts from all 25 Member States Norway Bulgaria and Romania are actively participating in the work 36 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS REFERENCES Farinha JC amp Fonseca E 2008 Invento
22. data sharing protocol which supports data exchange and sharing between wetland stakeholders and the use of Earth Observation techniques EO as enhanced means of mapping wetland features Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands guides the reader through the upgraded MedWet system incorporating the socioeconomic and cultural aspects of wetlands the Water Framework Directive requirements inventory based indicators the Pan Mediterranean Wetland Inventory and EO techniques Most importantly it provides a full description of and guidance through the new online MedWet WIS a system which offers an advanced and flexible way to provide or restrict access to data supported by a relevant protocol 5 Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands incorporates the following series of manuals e The Pan Mediterranean Wetland Inventory Module e The Catchment Module amp The Site Module The Water Framework Directive Module e The Surveillance Module e The Indicators Module e The MedWet Web Information System User Manual e The MedWet Inventory Data Sharing Protocol Mapping Wetlands Using Earth Observation Techniques They set out to explain the background the relevance and the benefits of the new MedWet system and to provide detailed guidance on how to apply it Each manual can be used in two ways as a stand alone reference for its particular theme or subject or as an integral part of a series of works
23. dure Do not delete water body sheets manually this will only cause problems 3 3 4 Compiling water body sheets Due to the fact that the new sheet exclusively concerns a specific water body it will contain the parameters and their values as they have been compiled in the respective water body type profile of the reference sheet That means for instance that a L M4 type water body sheet contains the chosen parameters of the respective profiles stored in the reference sheet with their boundaries reference value weight etc Each quality element should appear as in the following Figure uil T_ Pai ii aa A Moderate Poor ciba ov me O G65 888 625 065 AL 7 _ _Tti6 1 15 0 650 33 0 15 0 65 D 21 0 39 0 410 21 m 0090 E ESAE a Mami S CRITERIUM meaa ge an 2 a 40 ED 4 Li Figure 3 3 4a An Element Cluster ofthe Water body sheets Note the similarity with the same parameters in the reference sheet see Figure 3 2 3a Please note that the number of parameters of a given item depends on the number of parameters of the same water body type section in the reference sheet In contrast to the first version of this software Used and Not Used parameters are both present although used parameters do not contribute to the resulting value Items identified with the number a measurement unit
24. e s e where this is not possible screen small Purposes and elements of surface water for identification as water I Ma bodies according to their significance in the context of the Directives purposes and provisions e g ecological importance importance to the objectives _ Dono entity es a of a Protected Area significant adverse impacts on other surface waters in the river basin district In such a case small elements 1 belonging to the same category and type 2 influenced by the same pressure category and level and 3 having an influence on another well delimited water body may be grouped for assessment and reporting purposes those small elements of surface water not identified as surface water bodies protect and where necessary improve them to the extent needed to achieve the Directives objectives for water bodies to which they are directly or indirectly connected i e apply the necessary basic control measures under Article 11 Figure 8 A suggested approach to ensuring appropriate protection of smallest surface waters 3 6 Components of a surface water body and wetlands A surface water body comprises the quality elements described in the Directive for the classification of ecological status In concrete terms this means that e g a river water body comprises a the hydro morphological quality elements which include the water flow the bed of the channel that part of the l
25. ecognising the name and the related type of water body and to switch between the second and the third section The second section entitled ELEMENTS TABLE as in Figure 3 2 3a contains the quality element parameters their values and some derived data e The third section Status calculation see Figure 3 2 3b shows the steps derived from a working of the water body data which lead to the water body status THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE IL PRE fw fw ee 107 f igaeeesssedas 1 amp 58RSESBTESEBE E 4 amp HN MEDWET SITE WB fdh kk a Figure 3 2 3b Screenshot of a Water Body Sheet Status calculation Section Navigation between sections and of the water body sheets is achieved by clicking alternatively on the Elements table or Status buttons in section 3 3 Using the software When using this software it is important to keep in mind the precise meaning of each file 19 Every single MedWet CODDE B file contains all the information pertaining to ONE MedWet site It should not be used to collect data from more than one MEDWET site For this reason it makes sense to compile a site file only when sufficient data are available for that site This avoids mixing water body data from different sites which should not be done even if the sites are part of adjacent systems At the same time the user interested in
26. eless it should be noted that once environmental standards have been adopted at Community level for the priority substances listed in Annex X these substances should only be taken into account in the classification of surface water chemical status and should not be used as supporting elements for the classification of ecological status see 2 7 and 3 8 2 3 WED Annex V Table 1 2 provides a general definition of ecological status in each of the five status classes For each relevant quality element more specific definitions for ecological status at high good and moderate status in rivers Table 1 2 1 lakes Table 1 2 2 transitional waters Table 1 2 3 and coastal waters Table 1 2 4 are given In addition a similar approach has been used for HMWBs and AWBs with definitions for maximum good and moderate ecological potential being given Table 1 2 5 For the purposes of mapping and reporting the two upper classes for HMWBs and AWBs i e maximum and good ecological potential are combined as good and above 1 2 4 As a basic step the values of the biological quality elements must be taken into account when assigning water bodies to any of the ecological status and ecological potential classes In order to ensure comparability the results of the biological monitoring systems shall be expressed as ecological quality ratios for the purposes of ecological classification The ratio shall be expressed as a numerical value between zero worse c
27. erefore not only guides the compiler step by step through the process of installing and compiling the requisite WFD data but also specifies where the reader can obtain the necessary background information to explain the concepts as outlined in the Water Framework Directive This is achieved both by referencing the precise locations within the Directive which explain those concepts and additionally repeating key passages of the Directive as they relate to the WFD Module All compilers are strongly urged to study these references carefully before and during the compilation process 1 3 Concepts and definitions applicable to WFD Data Forms 1 to 5 1 Location The Ecoregions for inland surface and groundwaters as defined in WFD Annex XI map A page L 327 71 are easy to detect and usually follow national borders or natural barriers They are necessary to allocate rivers lakes groundwaters etc Water Framework Directive is given in full at http circa europa eu Public irc env wfd library Il2 framework directive legislative texts wfd en pdf EN 1 0 amp a d INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS The WFD has led to river basins sub basins and districts being determined and coded at national level Please see WFD Articles 2 13 2 14 and 2 15 for the definition of each category The location and boundaries of Ecoregions for the categories of transitional and coastal waters are depicted in WFD Annex
28. erence sheet are compiled in increasing decreasing order since overlap control is limited to adjacent boundaries Otherwise the software will not give any warning and inconsistent data will be produced As appropriate remember to pay special attention to the better boundary of the high status and the worse of the bad status If these boundaries do not respect the range of possible values correctly some data will be outside any boundary as a consequence they will not be classified e Please state the exact number of parameters you have to use for a given water body type If you are not sure how many parameters you have to consider add more parameters than you are supposed to use Unneeded parameters can be switched off setting the relative USED field to NO 3 3 3 Creating and deleting water body sheets Once you have compiled the MedWet site sheet and the reference sheet you can start to record the water bodies belonging to the specific MedWet site 3 3 3 1 Creating water body sheets First select the MedWet site sheet and click the Add water body see e in Figure 3 3 3 1c button The following box will appear Add water body item Water body acronym Surface ha Relevance Create water body item Figure 3 3 3 1a Add water body item Box Choose the water body type acronym you want to insert The list of available water body types is based on available water body type pr
29. espective Environment Ministries Columns 2 3 4 are for the three groups of quality elements which are the reference conditions for the type of water bodies present in the wetland site These are established at international level through the work of the Geographical Intercalibration Groups GIGs These figures together with the actual site conditions for the same elements parameters are needed to run the calculation software CODDE B xlt 12 The software contained in the file WFD CODDE B xlt allows the quality status of the Water Body to be assessed The procedure to assign a water body to a specific ecological quality class is not an easy process to run refer to G D n 10 and for this reason it is proposed to use the WFD CODDE B xlt program The program makes the whole process more user friendly and comprehensive Up to now the software can be applied only to natural WBs and not to Artificial WBs Heavily Modified WBs and to Terrestrial Ecosystems So it is not possible to calculate the Ecological Potential through the software 5 Wetland site status These boxes should be filled with the data already available in the National Environment Agencies and Ministries of some EU Member States Because it is obligatory and the process has already begun calculated water quality status should be available already for most Water Bodies in most Countries Despite this national assessments may not have covered completely some less significa
30. essment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands This series is the outcome of the project MedWet information and knowledge network for the sustainable development of wetland ecosystems MedWet CODDE The project was launched under the INTERREG IIIC programme to read more about the MedWet CODDE project visit the website www medwet org Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands incorporates the following series of manuals e The Pan Mediterranean Wetland Inventory Module Tom s Vives 2008 e The Catchment Module amp The Site Module Farinha et al 2008 The Water Framework Directive Module Cenni amp Tarsiero 2008 The Surveillance Module Farinha amp Fonseca 2008 The Indicators Module Fitoka et al 2008a e The MedWet Web Information System User Manual Katsaros et al 2008 e The MedWet Inventory Data Sharing Protocol Fitoka et al 2008b Mapping Wetlands Using Earth Observation Techniques Fitoka amp Keramitsoglou 2008 Technical Coordination EKBY Designed and published by Sympraxis Team www sympraxis gr Sore Es SUG Liuesl INTERREG IIIC die i AUTHORS Mario Cenni ARPAT Agenzia regionale per la protezione ambientale della Toscana Area Mare A F Ecosistemi palustri e laghi Via A Vallisneri 6 55100 Lucca ITALY http www arpat toscana it e mail m cenni arpat toscana it Sergio Trasiero ARPAT Agenzia regionale per la p
31. he Directive s criteria The onus is on the compiler to introduce the correct reference condition for each specific WB category and type both for number of elements parameters and for their values It should be borne in mind that the calculator will give responses even if not all the values needed to obtain a correct status classification are completed for the WB in question THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE 4 SELECTED TEXTS FROM THE WED CIS GUIDANCE DOCUMENT NO 2 4 1 Selected text pertaining to section 2 of the WFD Data Form The following text has been taken directly from the WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 and provides further more detailed information relating to the concepts and definitions relating to section 2 of the WFD Data Form 3 4 Suggested process for the practical application of the term surface water body The principles described above for the identification of surface water bodies can be applied through an hierarchical process see Figure 7 below Annex 5 1 6 Annex H 1 10 31 Fumats To mpteve according to other criteria such as mrearinohul at water differences in status or the extent of bodies sea Section 2 and 3 3 Aticle 4 3 and Annex li 1 Inj Figure 7 Summary of suggested hierarchical approach for the identification of surface water bodies To ensure that water bodies do not cross the boundaries of surface water categories Paragraph 3 2 2 t
32. he suggested first step in delineating surface water bodies is to identify the boundaries of the surface water categories To ensure that water bodies do not cross the boundaries of surface water types Paragraph 3 2 3 the suggested second step in delineating surface water bodies is to identify the boundaries of the surface water types in each river basin district INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS To ensure that water bodies represent discrete and significant elements of surface waters the suggested third step in delineating them is to identify boundaries using distinct physical features Paragraph 3 2 4 that are a likely to be significant in the context of aquatic ecosystem characteristics and b are consistent with the examples of discrete and significant elements of surface water given in the Directive s definition see Section 5 1 In order to ensure that water bodies are identified in a meaningful way the suggested fourth step in identifying surface water bodies is to identify boundaries on the basis of other relevant criteria cf Section 3 3 This approach is also necessary for the identification of heavily modified water bodies see Section 3 2 5 Initially in the case of absence of information on status the pressure and impact assessment procedure required under Article 5 will provide estimates of status changes refer to WFD CIS Guidance Document No 3 The monitoring programmes will p
33. lass and one best class 2 5 The values of the hydromorphological quality elements must be taken into account when assigning water bodies to the high ecological status class and the maximum ecological potential class i e when downgrading from high ecological status or maximum ecological potential to good ecological status potential For the other status potential classes the hydromorphological elements are required to have conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified in Tables 1 2 1 1 2 5 for the biological quality elements Therefore the assignment of water bodies to the good moderate poor or bad ecological status ecological potential classes may be made on the basis of the monitoring results for the biological quality elements and also in the case of the good ecological status potential the physico chemical quality elements see paragraph 2 6 below This is because if the biological quality element values relevant to good moderate poor or bad status potential are achieved then by definition the condition of the hydromorphological quality elements must be consistent with that achievement and would not affect the classification of ecological status potential 2 6 The values of the physico chemical quality elements must be taken into account when assigning water bodies to the high and good ecological status classes and to the maximum and good ecological potential classes i e when downgrading from high status maxi
34. lating to the concepts and definitions relating to section 4 of the WFD Data Form 2 2 The WED requires surface water classification through the assessment of ecological status or ecological potential and surface water chemical status WFD Annex V Table 1 1 explicitly defines the quality elements that must be used for the assessment of ecological status potential see Table 1 below Separate lists are provided for rivers section 1 1 1 lakes section 1 1 2 transitional waters section 1 1 3 and coastal waters section 1 1 4 Section 1 1 5 specifies that the quality elements for the classification of heavily modified and artificial water bodies are those relevant to whichever of the four surface water categories the heavily modified or artificial water body most closely resembles The lists of quality elements for each surface water category are subdivided into 3 groups of elements 1 biological elements 2 hydromorphological elements supporting the biological elements and 3 chemical and physico chemical elements supporting the biological elements The chemical and physico chemical quality elements supporting the biological elements include 1 General physico chemical quality elements specified in Annex V table 1 1 of the WFD 2 Specific non priority pollutants identified by Member States as being discharged in significant quantities and 3 Specific priority pollutants as being discharged specified in Annex X of the WFD Neverth
35. ltitude geology size and for lakes natural heavily modified and artificial depth Optional factors from System B can be used as desired by Member States and can be complemented with factors other than those mentioned in the WFD e The WFD s descriptors of geology in System A refer to the dominant feature calcareous siliceous etc expected to have the strongest influence on the ecological character of the water body e The WFD requires that Member States must achieve at least the same degree of differentiation of WB types using System B as would be obtained using System A This means that if System B is used it should result in a greater degree of variability in type specific reference conditions than if System A had been used This means that only a higher number of types using System B would be acceptable In order to cope with natural variability within types specific water body type reference conditions within a range of values for the type as a whole may be used Categories Artificial H M Water Bodies and Small elements have to be matched to and recorded as the most similar natural WB type 4 Reference conditions Columns two three and four of the Table are for the three groups of quality elements biological physico chemical and hydro morphological These are the reference conditions for the type of water bodies present in the wetland site and have particular relevance because they provide a tool for defining the
36. ment of a given profile contains some parameters and their relative data see 3 3 for compilation details that can be used for the evaluation For instance Aquatic flora may be measured using taxonomic composition abundance and bacterial coats and tufts parameters element group is divided into four elements Parameters of a same quality element are all grouped together as shown in Figure 3 2 2b BL a ul i Li aser dane e px Pele aa eri i Li J H elorophgl A crat Toe sat SB LI False arcu alza im E komin ES Folio a Fuge Pam pi ves PE wahya 249 W drequeneg of booms Fota rate ignit OOO cl pl B vu La E tone snakes biy 20 Wierna rA 4 LM m dm mmm ED GERE ED nme cw an Ere ie ide 5 east ici ra Bl Con Cu lose Cast om T ow 1 pap EN Ls zB pe iac p 4 haad 1200 4260 40 500 La HE hac par BR Val ii Bemm o pa Wow jak Bete Lanf x Loxm p ose nue qme ox e Figure 3 2 2b Fields that compose each Quality Element Cluster The profile ends in the lower part with an orange strip holding two more fields PROFILE CREATED BY followed by the name of the creator s VALIDATED
37. mum ecological potential to good ecological status potential as well as from good to moderate ecological status potential For the other status potential classes the physico chemical elements are required to have conditions consistent with the achievement of the values specified in Tables 1 2 1 1 2 5 for the biological quality elements Therefore the assignment of water bodies to moderate poor or bad ecological status ecological potential may be made on the basis of the monitoring results for the biological quality elements This is because if the biological quality element values relevant to moderate poor or bad status potential are achieved then by definition the condition of the physico chemical quality elements must be consistent with that achievement and would not affect the classification of ecological status potential THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE ANNEX THE INTERCALIBRATION PROCESS The intercalibration exercise is referred to in the Directive Annex V section 1 4 1 Its objective is to harmonize the understanding of good ecological status in all Member States and to ensure that this common understanding is consistent with the definitions of the Directive Intercalibration is a complex task that takes into account current scientific knowledge about the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems and how human activities influence them The process of defining good ecological status does
38. n about the location of the site see 8 3 3 for the fields used The Water bodies section hosts the list of water bodies of the MedWet site with their parameters Initially there are no water bodies in the list Figure 3 2a However once the first water body is compiled a series of information is displayed for each WB including Progressive ID e Sheet Name e Water body name Surface hectares e Relevance Status code and evaluation An explanation of these fields is given in 3 3 3 16 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 3 2 2 Reference sheet The reference sheet appears as follows n er E R8SC2 T Aydro morphologic al 1 4 P 8 g gt di 12 2 E r3 4 mm __ Lakes _ mere inni 5 x ECOLOGICAL STATUS Biological elements pecu ME LL m o Sw 8 _ 10 Raie ence valve Mac MSI Coo 1 op 1000 1 Parameter CUTS PEERS ESSERE Meaturerment und Belen Wem Werte Varie Better 12 SDAA PE Mi Romanga valia carri I om L EN J 1220 13 Parameter ioc Measurement und fecuri Eo enni Bele Better Worse Betio Worse Better dal Pu 1 Reference value ano om T sm l aec apo T 700 EE in mmm ar I WR LO
39. nged It is possible to add or erase profiles and to import or export them using a text data format named Water body type profile wtp It is impossible to modify a profile once imported into a RefSheet because the software recognises it as a standard for that profile it is necessary to delete and re build it or to upload a new correct one After they have been established EU and loaded eg from the MedWet WIS website if available the list of profiles will contain all the reference values and boundaries of a specific quality element and its parameters in a specific water body category and type WB type is a composite acronym which describes all together category ecoregion and altitude size geology and consequent acronyms L ake M edit 4 L M4 It results from the further specification obtained through the WED Annex II Ecoregions and surface water body types THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Section of Figure 3 2 2a contains all the profiles loaded or manually introduced Each profile begins with an orange strip holding two fields WB CATEGORY followed by the category name rivers lakes etc WB TYPE followed by the type acronym LM 4 RM 5 etc Each section in turn is subdivided into quality element groups e biological e physico chemical e hydro morphological The biological Phytoplankton e Aquatic flora e Benthic invertebrate fauna Fish fauna Each ele
40. not take account of socio economic factors These are covered by the exemptions to the general objectives The intercalibration register of sites The first step in the intercalibration exercise was to select sites representing ecological status at the boundaries between the high and good and between the good and moderate classifications The selection was made by Member States back in 2003 and 2004 on the basis of their understanding of good ecological status Thereafter on 19 September 2005 the Commission published the register of sites in a Commission Decision published in the Official Journal of the EU es es 83 89 Cet fel Cer Gt Ni N 50 er p 59 20 8 9 paf 193K B pdf 193KB The register includes 1489 sites from all 25 Member States Bulgaria Norway and Romania The sites were selected by Member States on the basis of the information available on the biological quality elements included in the definition of ecological status for example composition and abundance of aquatic flora or composition abundance and age structure of fish fauna see WFD Annex V Section 1 1 for the complete list Although the WFD defines which biological elements must be taken into account when assessing ecological status it leaves the Member States flexible to define the details of their own assessment system That is why the purpose of intercalibration is not to harmonize 35 assessment systems
41. nt water bodies wetlands for which the compiler may wish to understand more Also some non EU Countries in the Mediterranean eg in North Africa or the Middle East may be interested in applying the WFD criteria to verify their WBs quality status This one of the purposes though by no means the only one of developing the THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE WFD CODDE B xlt software through this EU project The way to use it is explained in the next section 8 3 At the end of the process carried out by the software program the status of the different water bodies whether one or more of the wetland site to which the WFD Data form is applied are registered in the final tables 5 of the WFD Data form For each water body type the relevant code is entered Room is allowed for different types within each category The columns to the right show the percentage surface area of the wetland corresponding to each type allocated to the appropriate column Thus for instance the table may show lake LA1 60 in the moderate column river RM2 30 in the moderate column and river RM3 10 in the good column The sum of percentages should add up to 100 of the wetland site but some parts may not be identified as significant by the WFD in which case the total will be lower 13 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 3 SOFTWARE STRUCTURE OF WFD CODDE B XLT Although the compiler needs to be familiar with the W
42. o di Mi 28 02 2007 9 10 ID Me 2000212007 14 38 normal DID File WEP 26 02 2007 16 08 lakes normal 38B Fie WEP 20 02 2007 14 59 EE 108 File WEP 26 02 2007 14 21 MEDIWET Medie id Pie HTM 36 02 2007 13 35 W MEDWET Medie 54 KB Fie HTM D6 02 2007 11 57 prova SIONS Foglio di 26 02 2007 16 16 Si user s Manual WF 1 506 Documento di Mero 26 02 2007 18 03 Manual WF 244088 Documento di Micro 28 02 2007 14 38 EiwrD Datasheet _ GEE Documento di Mero 23 02 2007 10 18 Nome file p ma 3 The reference sheet cannot contain two or more profiles with the same name This would be incorrect for obvious reasons the same water body type cannot have different reference conditions number of parameters etc and would lead to problems in managing data For this reason if you import a file with a profile name that is already stored in your reference sheet a box will appear forcing you to change the imported profile name before using it Profile acronym already exists Action 5 Moving among profiles As you insert and import or modify new profiles their number grows To move across profiles you can follow these steps 1 In the WB PROFILES operations toolbar select the Goto button THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Some cautionary notes and recommendations Make sure that all the boundaries of the ref
43. ofiles stored on the reference sheet Then put its name the Water body name field and click the Create water body item button Add water body item X Water body acronym L ALA3 Water body name Lago di Massaciuccoli Surface ha 233 Relevance 11 Figure 3 3 3 16 Example of completed Add water body item Box 25 26 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS Please fill in the fields Surface and Relevance The first specifies the extent of the water body in hectares while the second expresses a conservation value for the water body you wish to allocate to the specific site All these parameters are reported in the water bodies list for the site Consequently a new sheet named WB followed by the first ten letters of its name will appear In the MEDWET SITE sheet a new row will appear showing the Sheet Name the Water Body Name 2 the Surface da and the Relevance both cells can be selected and modified the relative WB type 6 and the assessment of the water body status 6 TOTAL WE 1 ms E un Figure 3 3 3 1c WB Page in the MEDWET SITE Sheet 3 3 3 2 Deleting water body sheets Water body sheets can be deleted but the following procedure is required To delete a water body sheet check a selectable cell in the corresponding row then click the Delete WB button It is essential to follow this proce
44. olarity n The Parameter field contains the common name of the given parameter expressed using the Measurement unit d specifications The weight field contains a number that states how that parameter is important relative to the others which belong to the same quality element In other words it takes into account the relative weight of each parameter when compared to the weight of the other ones belonging to the same quality element Weight field can be used or not depending on the choice of the Combining criterion field The reference value 4 field states the reference conditions for that parameter at High status The polarity d direct and i inverse expresses whether the parameter the direction High status towards Bad status grows i or declines d This polarity i d is chosen when adding the parameter or modified afterwards Note that the reference value and the observed value are actual numbers endowed with units of measure while the EQR Ecological Quality Ratio is the decimal number resulting from the function OBSERVED VALUE REFERENCE VALUE or vice versa In fact to allow for constantly decreasing EQRs moving from High towards Bad status the software calculates OBSERVED VALUE REFERENCE VALUE in the direct d mode and REFERENCE VALUE OBSERVED VALUE in the inverse i mode This allows for the EQR q n inside the High status interval value to be always zT 1 High Level
45. pplied at the element level This means that the choices made affect all the parameters of that element In fact it states which kind of data manipulation is to be applied to each parameter considered There are three criteria Arithmetic average Weighted average and the One out all out principle The arithmetic average considers all used parameters with the same weight The weighted average is an average calculated using values specified in the weight field The One out all out by contrast is an approach that selects the worse status calculation among all the used parameters of a given quality element Action 4 Importing exporting profiles Water body type profiles can be exported and imported To export a profile you have written please perform the following operations 1 Find the profile you want to export and select the WB CLASS cell in its orange header row ECOLOGICAL STATUS E Pi 2 In the WB PROFILES operations toolbar click the Export button 23 3 A standard Save as box will appear Note that it will suggest you lt TO gt name the profile file wbt with the name of your profile for example L M4 wbt It is not necessary to maintain the suggested file name but it helps to remember which kind of water body type this is him El di sers 0 KB Documento d bah 2 01I2007 L6 34 Donme Bacup d User 2 77208 Documentodb
46. rotezione ambientale della Toscana Area Mare A F Ecosistemi palustri e laghi Via A Vallisneri 6 55100 Lucca ITALY http www arpat toscana it THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS CONTENTS ABOUT THIS MANUAL Lan 5 The new 5 Purposes GIG aims ortiemqmabudl 5 SOHCEBTG GT mantidl 6 Who should use this manual eee tees eete tte rtnten tontos ta tentes tutta tates tos ezio eenzenzenie ee ziezenieeiezinzio eee zioni ii zie ieoionioni 6 LINTRODUCTION io 7 L IBICCOIOUA diana ia 7 1 2 CONcepisorthie VED intheWeDPibommaaaa ana 7 1 3 Concepts and definitions applicable to WFD Data Forms 1 to 5 wu cesessesssssssessesscsscsecsesssssssecsessesscsecsessessesecsecseesesscsecseeseeseens 7 2 WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE DATA FORM ccccssssssssssssssssssssssesscsscsscssssscsscsucsussscsscsucsecsucscscsessecsucssensenseses 10 3 SOFTWARE STRUCTURE OF WFD CODDE B XLT cc cccsssssssssssssssssssscsscsecssssscsussucsecsussucsucsucsucsucsucsucsucsucsucsscsucsssecsucasensenseses 14 ISGIRIOILilc a 14 3 2 SOV AN GD OS AU AUN rca 14 3 2 1 MedWet site 15 2 21 16 3 2 SINC OL NUNTIUS 18 ISU INITTNES0 Wii ei 19 19 3 3 2
47. rovide the information necessary to confirm status based boundaries Hence an iterative approach for identifying water bodies should be applied At the same time it is evident that the delineation of water bodies must be finally agreed at a certain point in time in order to enable the preparation of the river basin management plan The competent authorities of a river basin district will have to ensure that a balance between an iterative identification and the final assignment of water bodies is achieved 3 5 Small elements of surface water The purpose of the Directive is to establish a framework for the protection of all waters including inland surface waters transitional waters coastal waters and groundwater Member States must ensure that the implementation of the Directives provisions achieves this purpose However surface waters include a large number of very small waters for which the administrative burden for the management of these waters may be enormous The Directive does not include a threshold for very small water bodies However the Directive sets out two systems for differentiating water bodies into types System A and System B Only the System A typology specifies values for size descriptors for rivers and lakes The smallest size range for a System A river type is 10 100 km2 catchment area The smallest size range for a System A lake type is 0 5 1 km2 surface area No sizes for small transitional and coas
48. ry assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands The Surveillance Module ICNB MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford Farinha JC Fonseca E Rito Araujo P Carvalho S Lavinas C Silva EP Kouvelis S Vi ales Blasco amp Morant M 2008 Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands The Catchment Module amp The Site Module ICNB MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford Fitoka E Chrysopolitou V amp Tsiaoussi V 2008a Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands The Indicators Module EKBY MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford Fitoka E Kapanidis Y Tom s Vives P Katsaros P amp Liaska A 2008b Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands The MedWet Inventory Data Sharing Protocol EKBY TAV amp AUTH MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford Katsaros P Kapanidis Y amp Mentis A 2008 nventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean Wetlands The MedWet Web Information System User Manual AUTH amp EKBY MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford Tom s Vives P 2008 Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands The Pan Mediterranean Wetland Inventory Module TdV MedWet publication Scientific reviewer Nick J Riddiford
49. tal waters are given The application of system B must achieve at least the same level of differentiation as system A It is therefore 32 recommended to use the size of small rivers and lakes according to system A However it is recognized that in some regions where there are many small water bodies this general approach will need to be adapted Having said that it may be appropriate to aggregate water bodies into groups for certain purposes as outlined in Chapter 5 in order to avoid unnecessary administrative burden However there are still large numbers of discrete rivers and lakes that are smaller than these thresholds A possible approach for the protection of these waters is outlined below Member States have flexibility to decide whether the purposes of the Directive which apply to all surface waters can be achieved without the identification of every minor but discrete and significant element of surface water as a water body 27 Annex 11 1 5 Article 8 Article 1 Annex Il 1 2 31 Annex II 1 2 1 Annex 11 1 2 2 THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE IL A suggested approach see Figure 8 is to Can thia alamant be ncdudad Yi of a na ghibouninsg e include small elements of surface water as surface water body part of a contiguous larger water body of the same Ma surface water category and of the same type where Yet possible ls the siamen significant in the context of the Directiv
50. the moderate status of phytoplankton determines the moderate status of the entire biological quality elements group Please note that Physico chemical and Hydro morphological element groups have only one element class For this reason second assessment is not needed and they have the same evaluation of their element level The water body level assessment is far more complicated In fact it must follow the guidance document n 10 of the WFD which on page 5 delineates the water body assessment Do the estimated values Do the phvsico Do the hydro for the biological chemical condition Li morphological quality elements meet meet high status conditions meet high reference conditions tart Do the estimated values Do the physico chemical for the biological quality conditions a envure elements deviate only ecosystem functioning slightly from reference and b meet the EQS condition values for specific pollutants Classifv on the basis of i the biological deviation I the deviation from reference moderate condition Greater 1 the deviation Y major di Greater Fig 3 3 5c Workflow Diagram THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE A study of this workflow diagram results in the following principles 1 Biological quality assessment is the major driving force determining the overall quality status In case of a strong devia
51. the MedWet Web Information System User Manual Katsaros et al 2008 11 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS 2 Wetland site typology under the WFD Categories WFD Art 2 2 2 10 In completing table 2 consideration is given to whether the wetland overlaps or is included within a single national WB 100 of that WB or if it is a mosaic of several categories of WB eg a wetland site could be 30 Lake 70 River Details of types of WB are derived from national lists Further typology description can be found on page 2 of the WFD Data form 3 Ecoregion and surface water body type The Ecoregion information for the 3 Data form will be the same as given in 1 and will be the same for all WBs as they refer to the same site Type should already have been established at national level and each allocated a code eg L AL3 or L AL4 for alpine lakes of different types It is this code which is entered in the Type boxes In the next column the notation A or B refers to the system chosen between System A and System B as outlined in the Water Framework Directive pages L327 23 to L327 27 The column Data Sources records if the identification is a governmental one or not 4 Reference conditions The first column of table 4 lists the categories types of Water Bodies that are included in the wetland site using the relevant code for each category type These are normally published at a national level by the r
52. the button Set Site Map It is recommended to insert Maps possibly with a cartographic subdivision of water bodies instead of simple landscape shots 3 3 2 Compiling the reference sheet Once the site specific information has been entered and before inserting water body data which is not allowed from this sheet a reference sheet needs to be compiled Initially the reference sheet contains no profile The reference sheet is activated by means of the WB Profiles toolbar see 8 3 2 Action 1 Adding a water body profile 1 In the WB PROFILES operations toolbar select the Add button A new box will appear oo eo 2 Enter the Water body class category Lakes Rivers Coastal ecosystems etc and the Water body type acronym in their respective fields then click Create Add a water body profile gt 3 water body profile will appear This profile shows all the Quality Elements but none of these will be associated with Parameter 11083 3 dh Wn Cia F nn m Split G lag d SST H THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE Action 2 Setting the Parameters of each Quality Element of the water body profile 1 Move to the first Quality Element of the profile Phytoplankton then click on it once LAI 2 Click the add button in the PARAMETERS operations toolbar a box will appear 3 Choose the polarity of yo
53. tion from the reference values chemical and morphological data have no importance while biological assessment is fundamental 2 A high overall quality status assessment requires all three quality element groups to be high For this reason a high overall status can be assessed only if enough data are available for all the element groups Application of these principles means that in the case of a moderate poor or bad status physico chemical data are not required to perform the assessment Hydro morphological parameters are required only if the status of physico chemical and biological ones is high The intercalibration process will probably avoid defining an intermediate poor or bad status of non biological element groups because there is no need to do so all should be at good status by 2016 For this reason it is more appropriate when a useful status evaluation of Hydro morphological and physico chemical element groups is not met to define respectively a worse than high status and a worse than good status The full combination of evaluations which can be deduced following the procedures outlined in Figure 3 3 5c is shown in Table 3 3 5a below Biol Elements 29 Table 3 3 5a Combination of Elements and Resulting Overall Evaluation D Insufficient Data ALL All the combinations including 1 D 30 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MON
54. ture of the manual To achieve its purpose and aims the manual is structured as follows Section 1 Introduction provides an outline of the concepts of the Water Framework Directive as they relate to the WFD inventory Section 2 Water Framework Directive Module Data Form describes and explains the data fields in the Water Framework Directive Data Form This paper version was produced primarily for EKBY programmer informatic expert use and to demonstrate development outcomes to the EC and other backers of the project It is described and explained here primarily for background interest Compilers will not be confronted with this option because they will work directly from the MedWet Web Information System MedWet WIS version available on the website Section 3 Software structure of the WFD_CODDE_B XLT presents guidance on how to install and use the software version of the WFD MedWet WIS and instructions on entering the data The software is a tool for calculating the water quality status of water bodies under the Water Framework Directive Section 4 Selected Texts from the WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 a more detailed guide of the Water Framework Directive as it relates to the WFD inventory is presented in the form of selected texts reproduced from the WFD CIS Guidance Document No 2 ANNEX The Intercalibration Process outlines the steps taken to harmonize understanding of good ecological status amongst the EU States for the Water Framework
55. umn shows how cells background changes according to the quality assessment level The field number 8 represents a synthetic value which is derived from manipulation of the sum of the levels of each parameter of the quality element The ways it performs this are as follows When the One out all out methodology is chosen only the worse of the level values will be taken When the arithmetic average methodology is chosen the parameter values of the levels will be summed and divided by the number of parameters When the weighted average methodology is chosen the resulting level will be multiplied by the weight and then averaged for each parameter applying this formula I Where i is the number of selected parameters QI and W are respectively the i indexed quality level detected and its weight according to the reference sheet Please note that this calculation considers only USED parameters Once as many fields as possible have been compiled the water body sheet calculates the quality levels at the maximum possible degree of resolution 3 3 5 Water body status calculation Water body status is calculated in the Status calculation section When a water body sheet is created this section appears as below one out all out RESULTING VALUE 3 00 Figure 3 3 5a Status Calculation ofa Water body at the beginning of Data Insertion 27 28 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND M
56. ur parameter clicking the i d box In a direct mode a higher value means better situation in an inverse mode it means a worse situation 4 Two rows will be inserted under the Element row Repeat this operation for all the parameters of the quality element you want to introduce hytoplancton Tee Parameter ici cani e IN Weight EE ee ee a al 1 Ret 5 Switch to the following Element Aquatic flora and repeat steps 1 to 4 21 6 Removal of parameters is possible if there are too many or they are wrong to do this select the Parameter cell of the parameter you want to erase real d qua uua Nem 7 Click the Erase button in the PARAMETERS operation toolbar Repeat steps 5 and 6 for all the parameters you want to erase 22 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF MEDITERRANEAN WETLANDS Action 3 Writing parameter values Each parameter has some associated fields which must be completed in order to calculate the water bodies status see Figure 3 3 2a for details Parameters i Measurement unit RETE RI EI Reference value rtm Fi e ill r lh de nr l ee l Phytoplancton Parameter Frequency of blooms _ Figure 3 3 2a General Fields of a given Parameter For each parameter there are four fields listed in the left hand column they are 1 Parameter name 2 Weight 3 Measurement unit 4 Reference value 5 P
57. w to use the Water Framework Directive Data Form are presented below The Data Form is appended to the end of this manual 3 Users can access the Data Forms of the six modules as well as the relevant Appendices through the cdrom menu THE WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE MODULE A word of caution for users who intend to store their data in the MedWet WIS The data have first to be stored in the General Data Form or the Pan Mediterranean Wetland Inventory Data Form by filling in as a minimum three obligatory fields These are Site code Usual wetland name and Country This means that for a given wetland site one of the above two Data Forms must be created before any other Data Form can be initiated This is necessary for the MedWet WIS to create a list of available wetland sites In order to create any of the other Data Forms the user has first to nominate the wetland site and this can only be accomplished by selecting the appropriate wetland site from the MedWet WIS list Site code first page top right An identification code is allocated to each site The code is unique as this will allow all the information to be associated with the relevant site The site codes must be established at national level and the country should be identified by the first two digits following the ISO code rules The site code is composed of a maximum of ten alphanumeric digits 1 Location Ecoregion for inland surface and groundwaters WFD
58. ystems MedWet CODDE project Undertaken between 2005 2007 the MedWet CODDE addresses the urgent need for policy makers wetland managers and researchers to have easy access to up to date and standardized data in order to assess and monitor the current status and trends of Mediterranean wetlands and their surroundings The project was launched through the INTERREG IIIC programme The purpose of the new MedWet publication Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands is to assist wetland managers and scientists to inventory their wetland resources to facilitate the monitoring and assessment of these resources and to promote data harmonization and compatibility among various inventory efforts in the Mediterranean and beyond It has its roots in the original MedWet wetland inventory work Costa et al 1996 Hecker et al 1996 Farinha et al 1996 Zalidis et al 1996 developed during the MedWet 1 ACNAT project and presented in 1996 at the Conference on Mediterranean Wetlands in Venice as a standard inventory methodology for the countries of the Mediterranean region The publication also draws on the outputs of the first upgrading effort done under the SUDOE project INTERREG IIB Inventory assessment and monitoring of Mediterranean wetlands introduces a Mediterranean wide system which is based on a web database the MedWet Web Information System MedWet WIS which provides the tool for the creation of a Mediterranean wetland databank a

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