Call for tenders for the development of tools and services for the Water Information System for Europe
The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the development of tools and services for the Water Information System for Europe (WISE). The integrated approach on water management in the EU implementing the EU water legislation has led to the need for integrated information management of all EU water policies. The WISE has become the main reporting tool for water-related legislation- a comprehensive and shared European data and information management system for water, including river basins. The development of the WISE system has been carried out until now according to the 1st WISE Implementation Plan. Further development of the WISE system is planned to integrate additional information and to streamline reporting by ensuring information exchange and interoperability at different hierarchical data information levels under all EU water policies and other EU-wide reporting obligations on water. WISE is an important thematic block of a wider process of developing horizontal policies on environmental information management. It will be able to collect data for multipurpose use with many points of accessibility of information for end-users (primary to public authorities) and the general public and make comparisons of information on an appropriate geographical scale. This will enable more efficient EU-level analyses, streamlines reporting and monitoring and empowers citizens.To see the official call announcement, please consult: OJ No S 92 of 13 May 2011(opens in new window)