WFD 2000/60/EC

PROJECT
TRACEABLE MEASUREMENTS FOR MONITORING CRITICAL POLLUTANTS
UNDER THE EUROPEAN WATER FRAMEWORK DIRECTIVE (WFD 2000/60/EC)
URL:
http://www.emrp-waterframeworkdirective.bam.de
DURATION
2011 - 2014
PROJECT TYPE
The Joint Research Project (JRP) ENV08 “Traceable measurements for monitoring critical pollutants under
the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) 2000/60/EC” has been conducted under the European
Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) (https://www.euramet.org/index.php?id=emrp). It received
funding from the EMRP participating countries within EURAMET and the European Union.
SCOPE
The WFD specifies a list of 33 priority water pollutants. For these substances, Environmental Quality
Standards (EQS), equivalent to the maximum allowable concentrations, had been defined at very low levels.
EQS values refer to the whole water body, i.e. include contaminants which are associated to suspended
solids or colloids present in the natural water. For several priority pollutants primary analytical methods
capable of measuring the target analytes at EQS level in natural water are still missing. The project has
developed and validated such methods for three selected compounds, namely Tributyltin (TBT),
Polybrominated Diphenylether (PBDE) and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH).
Furthermore, the JRP has developed concepts for the preparation of reference materials (RM) which contain
the target analytes at EQS level in a matrix as close as possible to natural water. Such materials serve as a
Quality Assurance tool for monitoring laboratories to assess their measurement capabilities. The JRP
therefore helps to implement the WFD and to improve the quality of measurements carried out by test
laboratories in the field of water analysis and helps to achieve the final objective of WFD, namely good
quality of surface, ground and coastal water in the EU by 2015.
CO-ORDINATOR
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung (BAM),
Department Analytical Chemistry, Reference Materials
Dr. Rosemarie Philipp, email: [email protected]
PARTNERS

Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und –pruefung (BAM), Germany

Biroul Roman De Metrologie Legala (BRML), Romania

Institut Jozef Stefan (IJS), Slovenia

Joint Research Centre- European Commission (JRC-IRMM), EC

LGC Limited, UK

Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), France

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany

Suomen ymparistokeskus (SYKE), Finland

TUBITAK Ulusal Metroloji Enstitusu, Turkey

Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany

Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Italy

Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum fuer Material- und Kuestenforschung GmbH (HZG),
Germany

Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI), Spain

Bulgarian Institute of Metrology (BIM), Bulgaria
OUTCOME
A final summary of the project and the project report is available at the EURAMET website
https://www.euramet.org/research-innovation/search-researchprojects/details/?eurametCtcp_project_show%5Bproject%5D=1125&eurametCtcp_project%5Bback%5D=470
&cHash=7029f7eb64ec1043d640a9301829fce5 .
MAIN PUBLICATIONS

A. Gonzalez Gago, D. Proefrock, A. Prange: Optimizing GC-ICP-MS for ultra-trace quantification of
PBDEs in natural water samples using species specific isotope dilution, J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 30
(2015) 180-190, DOI: 10.1039/C4JA00112E

C. Swart, F. Gantois, P. Petrov, J. Entwisle, H. Goenaga-Infante, M. Nousiainen, M. Bílsel, B. Binici, A.
Gonzalez-Gago, D. Pröfrock, A. C. Gören: Potential reference measurement procedures for PBDE in
surface water at levels required by the EU Water Frame Directive, Talanta 152 (2016) 251-258, DOI:
10.1016/j.talanta.2016.01.066

E. Alasonati, I. Fettig, B. Fabbri, C. Yardin, M. E. Del Castillo Busto, J. Richter, R. Philipp and P. Fisicaro:
Experimental design for TBT quantification by isotope dilution SPE–GC–ICP–MS under the European
water framework directive, Talanta 134 (2015) 576-586, DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2014.11.064

A. Rodríguez-Cea, P. Rodríguez-González, N. Font Cardona, J. L. Aranda Mares, S. Ballester Nebot, J. I.
García Alonso: Determination of ultratrace levels of Tributyltin in waters by Isotope Dilution and Gas
Chromatography coupled to tandem Mass Spectrometry, J. Chromatogr. A, 1425 (2015) 265–272, DOI:
10.1016/j.chroma.2015.11.031

S. Elordui-Zapatarietxe, I. Fettig, R. Philipp, F. Gantois, B. Lalere, C. Swart, P. Petrov, H. GoenagaInfante, G. Vanermen, G. Boom, H. Emteborg: Novel concepts for preparation of reference materials as
whole water samples for priority substances at ng L-1 level using model suspended particulate matter
and humic acids, Anal Bioanal Chem 407 (2015) 8009–8018, DOI: 10.1007/s00216-014-8349-8
2

S. Elordui-Zapatarietxe, I. Fettig, J. Richter, R. Philipp, G. Vanermen, E. Monteyne, G. Boom, H.
Emteborg: Preparation and evaluation of sufficiently homogeneous and stable reference materials for
priority hazardous substances in whole water, Accred Qual Assur 21 (2016) 113-120, DOI:
10.1007/s00769-015-1189-1

J. Richter, S. Elordui-Zapatarietxe, H. Emteborg, I. Fettig, J. Cabillic E. Alasonati, F. Gantois, C. Swart, T.
Gokcen, M. Tunc, B. Binici, A. Rodriguez-Cea, T. Zuliani, A. Gonzalez Gago. D. Proefrock, M. Nousiainen,
G. Sawal, M. Buzoianu, R. Philipp: An interlaboratory comparison on whole water samples, Accred Qual
Assur 21 (2016) 121-129, DOI: 10.1007/s00769-015-1190-8
3

Download Report