Reporting schemes for the European water framework directive in the context of the internet portal WasserBLIck and INSPIRE

IT developments for the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) currently focus on the support of the reporting obligations, from regional Water Information Systems in multiple information integration and aggregation steps towards the European Commission. The present article illustrates how the reporting is currently organised in Germany based upon the Internet Portal WasserBLIcK. Furthermore, an outlook is given how the reporting schemes will be influenced by European projects like INSPIRE and ORCHESTRA that aim at providing standardised service-oriented architectures to improve the syntactical and semantic interoperability.