Common Implementation Strategy CIS

WFD/EAE (2004) Expert Advisory Forum (EAF) on Priority Substances and Pollution Control Concept Paper on Emission Control from 8 lune 2004, Common Implementation Strategy (CIS) for the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), 7th EAF Meeting at Brussels, 14-15 June 2004. 

Article 16 also states that the list of priority substances needs to be reviewed by the Commission every four years. Eor the definition of the first list of priority substances, in accordance with the provisions of the WED, a Combined Monitoring-based and Modelling-based Priority Setting scheme (COMMPS) was devised. The implementation of this scheme also involved a data collection exercise to assess the level of contamination by chemical substances in Europe. This led to the development of the COMMPS monitoring database. But this was a one-off exercise (the database was never updated) and it was therefore recognised as fundamental that a data collection process should be carried out on a regular basis, with data to be included in the Water Information System for Europe (WISE) developed under the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS). 

In carrying out the collaborative and iterative process of identification of research needs to support the WFD implementation, it came out that compliance with agriculture was one of the priorities of the Adour-Garonne RED. Therefore, a pilot river basin (PRB), Gascogne Rivers , has been proposed to the Common Implementation Strategy (CIS, see Section 10.1.2). This PRE has a size of 6800 km (6% of the district), with a popnlation of 263 000 inhabitants (4 % of the district s permanent population). 

European Commission (2001) Common implementation strategy for the Water Framework Directive, European Communities, Final CIS document available at http //europa.eu.int/ comm/envrronment/water/water-framework/rmplementation.html. 

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