9th Implementation Report of Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive and modern information system for all countries: UWWTD SIIF

Under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, the 28 European Member States have to report every two years the detailed situation as regards implementation of the Directive. In 2012, the European Commission has developed a concept of Structured Information and Implementation Framework (SIIF) to ensure the production and the online dissemination of information allowing the citizens to know the status of implementation of the Directive. For the DG environment, OIEau has developed a prototype UWWTD SIIF platform and then implemented in a pilot phase the platform for seven countries. The open source platform (a set of softwares combined to gather treat and visualise the data reported by countries which forms a standalone software package) can be re used by any country willing to visualize its wastewater data with graphs, maps, summary tables and online access to all this (see presentations). The platform received an international award from the Open Geospatial Consortium - OGC in category best practices in public administration and data visualization (see award and video).

The current project had two key objectives:

-Technical support to assess the legal compliance of the implementation by the 28 European countries of the UWWTD to prepare the 9th European UWWTD implementation report

-Implement the UWWTD SIIF platform for all EU 28 Member States, import the 8th and 9th official reported MS datasets, and use them for the assessment (see UWWTD SIIF platforms).

with in view accelerating the availability of the most recent information for all.

The project has produced a platform for each of the 28 EU countries with two reporting years, and a set of reports and annexes. They have also been extensively used to conduct the last official assessment of country sanitation situation. The entire set of information and final report were made available officially during Spring 2017, and were extensively used to interact with each country to improve the provided data, and the resulting assessment. This resulted during the process in gathering and treating also the data of 2 countries which had difficulties in the previous exercise and the result is that all the 28 Member States are now covered with a detailed platform showing the situation. This proved to be useful and the use of the platforms since, have shown how much this information can also be reused by others.