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Class: MonitoringSite
- Please include here any comments which apply to all the schema elements in this Class.
- In addition to those general schema element level comments, we welcome your views on: a) whether you think this Class can be simplified; and b) whether you think the linkages with other reporting Classes or Schemas can be improved, and how;
Previous comments
Monitoring site purposes are in GML schema without any link to XML. The EU Assessors could not match that information.
In order to facilitate the reporting it could be helpful to have separate classes for GWBs and SWBs.
This has been very time consuming to fill this element. The level of detail required (information linked to the monitoring station) is too high and it seems it hasn't been used byt the Commission in their assessment of the RBMPs. We think it could usefully be simplified.
Schema: Monitoring, class: MonitoringSite, atribute: euMonitoringSiteName – there is no need to translate the name of monitoring site from the motherland language to English. On and EU level it should not be an identifier of the monitoring site. For this reason the unique euMonitoringSiteCode identifiers will have been given. Given the necessity of providing the names of the sites can be acceptable, the guidance for the way of doing it need rewording if are to be kept as mandatory.