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Where the PFRA made more information on the impacts of flooding available in a structured way (although often not quantified or in monetary  terms), it is at the same time obvious that the PFRA reporting in itself is insufficient to act as the single database on floods and flood impacts in Europe (ETC/ICM 2015). As significant differences are found in the way countries reported past flood events. The next reporting cycle, with a PFRA due by the end of 2018, could benefit from additional guidance in order to obtain more homogeneous information across member states (Kjeldsen, et al., 2013). Examples are the non-uniformity in the criteria to declare flood events beings ‘significant’, or the term ‘not applicable’ which is sometimes used as 'was checked and was not observed' and in other cases in the sense of 'we do not know because there are no data available'.