In the French WIS, automatic data exchanges have been organized, e.g. in the field of quality control of aquatic environments between the ordering parties responsible for monitoring the quality and the laboratories they employ to take samples and analyze them, which might be public or private. 
Ordering parties have their own specific information systems to match their particular information management requirements. As a result, it was difficult for these organizations to exchange specialized information. 
The national standardization system for data exchange, called “EDILABO”, was set up by Sandre with the support of a group of experts in order to:
1- Adopt a common vocabulary used by all stakeholders so that they can understand each other using specialized terminology;
2- Choose the specialized information that stakeholders wish to exchange to carry out quality controls in aquatic environments and to make samples and analyses;
3- Create a single code for some key data, such as parameters measured, for all stakeholders and use it to create a shared repository;
4- Choose a specific syntax to format specialized information so that it can be exchanged.
Thanks to this standard, in 2017, several thousand results of analyses of physico-chemical and microbiological parameters relating to the quality of aquatic environments were able to transit between different information systems and stakeholders.