COMPARISON AND LINKAGES OF SCHEMAS CONTENT
Surface water body
Article 3 / Article 5 / Article 8 / Article 13
RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / SWB schema – Surface Water Body information. Includes links to Groundwater bodies and protected areas and risk assessments. / SurfaceWaterMonitoringStations schema – holds the information about each monitoring station. It also describes
  • The programme the monitoring station is linked to
  • the quality elements measured
  • the water bodies linked to
  • Any links to international monitoring stations
  • The type of protected areas that are measured from the station
/ Article13SWB schema – Holds the following statuses and exemption details for
  • Ecological status or potential
  • Article 7 protected area status
  • EQS for heavy metals
  • EQS for pesticides
  • EQS for industrial pollutants
  • EQS for other pollutants
  • EQS for other national pollutants
  • Disaggregated statuses

Groundwater body
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / GWB schema – Ground Water Body information. Includes links to Surface Water bodies and protected areas and some risk assessments. / GroundwaterMonitoringStations schema – holds the information about each monitoring station. It also describes
  • The programme the monitoring station is linked to
  • the parameters measured
  • water bodies linked to
  • Any links to international monitoring stations
/ Article13GWB schema – Holds the following statuses and exemption details for
  • Good quantitative status or potential
  • Good chemical status nitrates
  • Good chemical status pesticides
  • Good chemical status other pollutants
  • Significant upward trends
  • Disaggregated statuses

Monitoring Programmes
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / Monitoring schema – Defines the programmes as follows
  • Surface water investigative and operational monitoring programmes
  • Surface water investigative programmes and Groundwater monitoring quantitative and chemical status programmes
Defines type of monitoring (e.g. quality elements and parameters) and the type of water bodies being monitored.
RBD Surface Water Summary information
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / RBD schema – Holds summary information for RBDs based on reporting sheets as follows:
  • SWB1: Typology of Surface Water Bodies
  • SWB2: Identification of Surface Water Bodies
  • SWB3: Provisional identification of Artificial and Heavily Modified Water Bodies
  • SWPI1: Summary of significant pressures on surface waters in the RBD. Each pressure should be assessed according to importance within the RBD as Not Applicable, Very Important, Important, Less Important or Unknown.
  • SWPI2: identification of surface water bodies at Risk
  • SWPI3: Significant point source pollution on surface waters
  • SWPI4: Significant diffuse source pollution on surface waters
  • SWPI5: Significant water abstractions from surface water
  • SWPI6: Significant water flow regulations and morphological alterations
  • SWPI7: Assessment of the impacts on surface water bodies
  • SWPI8: Uncertainties and data gaps
  • SWPI9: Preliminary recommendations for surveillence monitoring
/ Article13RBD schema – holds summary information associated with River Basin Management Plans based on reporting sheets. Not that information is required at either RBD or Sub-Unit level.
  • RBMP1: River Basin Management plan (RBD)
  • POM1; Summary of steps and measures taken to meet the requirements of Article 11 (RBD) Includes pressures
  • SWO1: System for classification of surface water (RBD) includes all quality elements at lowest level.
  • SWM3: Results of surface water monitoring stations (Sub Unit)
  • SW02: Use of exemptions in surface waters (Sub Unit)

RBD Groundwater Summary information
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / RBD schema – Holds summary information for RBDs based on reporting sheets as follows:
  • GWB1:Identification / delineation of groundwater bodies
  • GWPI2: identification of ground water bodies at Risk
  • GWPI3: Significant diffuse source pollution in groundwater
  • GWPI4: Significant point source pollution to groundwaters
  • GWPI5: Significant groundwater abstractions
  • GWPI6: Significant artificial groundwater recharge
  • GWPI7: Significant saltwater or other intrusion
  • GWPI8: Assessment of the human impacts on ground water bodies
  • GWPI10: Uncertainties and data gaps
  • GWPI 11: Recommendations for monitoring
/ Article13RBD schema – holds summary information associated with River Basin Management Plans based on reporting sheets. Not that information is required at either RBD or Sub-Unit level.
  • RBMP1: River Basin Management plan (RBD)
  • POM1; Summary of steps and measures taken to meet the requirements of Article 11 (RBD) Includes pressures
  • GWO1: Classification Systems established for groundwaters (RBD)
  • GWM2: Results of groundwater monitoring programmes (Sub Unit)
  • GW02: Use of exemptions in ground waters (Sub Unit)

RBD Other Summary information
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / RBD schema – Holds summary information for RBDs based on reporting sheets as follows:
  • ECO 1: Economic analysis

Protected Areas
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RBDCA schema – RBD and Competent Authority information / ProtArea schema – Protected Area Schema base information. Includes type of Protected Area and links to water bodies / PROT_AREA schema could be a sub-set or all of Art 5 PAs. Art 8 surface water programmes asks for numbers of PAs and numbers of monitoring stations within each type of PA aggregated to RBD level. / WithinProtectedArea and Art7ProtectedAreas requests status (according to WFD or other directives).