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euWaterBodyCode - Required.
Unique EU code of the surface or groundwater body as reported in the SWB or GWB schemas in which the monitoring site is physically located in or near (in the rare cases where the monitoring site is not physically located in the water body).
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The element is redundant here. The information is part of the spatial data set (WISE GIS Guidance): see featureOfInterestIdentifier and featureOfInterestIdentifierScheme WISE GML data elements and „foiId“, „foiIdSch“ attributes in „MonitoringSite“ shapefile spatial data set.
the Guidance states
"SWB or GWB schemas in which the monitoring site is physically located in or near (in the rare cases where the monitoring site is not physically located in the water body)."
and in the GIS Guidance specify which distance can be considered "near":
'monitoring site representative point should be within a 200 metre distance of the water body geometry.'
we propose to include this specification
HU: We do not think a concrete distance should be specified here. By a monitoring point somewhat downstream a SWB can be perfectly characterised, even if it is at 300 or 350 m far from the SWB.
In the Guidance Document No 15. on Groundwater monitoring, it is stated, that " Where groundwater bodies are determined to be not at risk according to the Article 5 review process, bodies may be grouped if they are sufficiently similar in terms of aquifer characteristics, pathway susceptibility(ies), pressure(s) and confidence in the risk assessment(s)." Grouping is very essential in monitoring for countries that have a large amount of groundwater bodies not at risk (e.g. Finland, Sweden) to get better coverage of monitored groundwater bodies. Yet there was no way to report grouping in the last reporting. In the next reporting we strongly wish that grouping would be reintroduced, as it was possible in the 1st cycle reporting.