European Register of Sites

There is a legal requirement for Member States to report the results of their classification of waterbodies to Europe. The UK is taking part in the European intercalibration process (known as ECOSTAT) that will support defining the thresholds between statuses of water bodies under the WFD (high, good, moderate, poor). The UK's Intercalibration Steering Group with the Rivers, Lakes and Marine task teams have identified the network of sites across the UK and providing this information into the European register.

The European register of sites can be found at: http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/eewai.html The European register of sites will be amended in line with intercalibration reports by June 2007, subject to sign-off at the European level by the Article 21 Committee.

For further information about the intercalibration process see:

12a Selection of sites and monitoring networks

Standardisation of River Classifications – EU STAR project: