While NTS is a critical tool for exposure assessment, the first NTS portals were developed independently of each other using different metadata standards.

Identified Strategic Objectives:

• Technical Harmonization: Enhancing interoperability across national NTS platforms.
• Infrastructure Development: Supporting a robust, coordinated European NTS network.
• Data Integration: Linking NTS findings to existing national and EU monitoring databases
• Regulatory Alignment: Bridging the gap between research communities and chemical management decision-makers.

The path forward involves establishing dedicated working groups to develop regulatory use cases and transparent quality control protocols, so that we can transition from isolated data silos to a comprehensive monitoring framework covering the entire water cycle.