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swEcologicalStatusOrPotentialValue - Required(EcologicalStatusCode_Enum).
Indicate the ecological status or potential of the surface water body, based on the most recently assessed status of the surface water body.
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The understanding of the information would benefit by doing the codelist more 'human readable'. An easy way to make it more friendly is by adding the textual information to the number. We have detected several cases in which High status was reported as 5 instead of one, because in the local system of the RBD it was undestood that ecological status was a list ranging from 5 to 1 instead of 1 to 5. As a general comment for the whole guidance, when possible it should be 'self explanatory'.
GENERAL COMMENT
In order to better understand and use the database, the quality or optimization of the database design must be sacrificed a little, giving more weight to its logical understanding.
NO supports ES
Next checks should be implemented:
The value reported must not be lower than any qeStatusOrPotentialValue reported in QualityElement for the surfaceWaterBody. (Implementation of the one out - all out principle)
The guidance requires 5 categories of ecological status/potential, including “High status or maximum potential” and “Good status or potential” categories. Different categories “maximum potential” and “good potential” are not WFD compliant – there is a “good or better potential” category only – and might lead to an incorrect interpretation. (The category “maximum potential” should be applied only on a quality element level.)
In the WFD the higher ecological potential classification is “good and above”. We propose to modify the EcologicalStatusCode_Enum as:
‘1’ = High status or maximum potential.
'2' = Good status or good and above potential
We support the comment made by IT.