1. www.jrc.ec.europa.eu Serving society Stimulating innovation Supporting legislation INSPIRE Marine Pilot Progress & status November 2015

2. Outline Marine Strategy Framework Directive Pilot aim and activities Highlights to-date Including first results from the “data exercise” Next steps Thanks to Paul Smits (JRC) for core presentation! Futher slides added by EEA

3. MSFD The aim of the European Union's ambitious Marine Strategy Framework Directive is to protect more effectively the marine environment across Europe.Marine Strategy Framework Directive The Directive defines Good Environmental Status (GES) as: “The environmental status of marine waters where these provide ecologically diverse and dynamic oceans and seas which are clean, healthy and productive” Article 3 11 quality descriptors to define GES

4. MSFD What does a Marine Strategy include?

5. MSFD What does a Marine Strategy include? The initial assessment of the current environmental status of national marine waters and the environmental impact and socio-economic analysis of human activities in these waters (by 15 July 2012) The determination of what GES means for national marine waters (by 15 July 2012) The establishment of environmental targets and associated indicators to achieve GES by 2020 (by 15 July 2012) The establishment of a monitoring programme for the ongoing assessment and the regular update of targets (by 15 July 2014) The development of a programme of measures designed to achieve or maintain GES by 2020 (by 2015) The review and preparation of the second cycle (2018 – 2021)

6. MSFD – Quality Descriptors Descriptor 1. Biodiversity is maintainedDescriptor 1 Descriptor 2. Non-indigenous species do not adversely alter the ecosystemDescriptor 2 Descriptor 3. The population of commercial fish species is healthyDescriptor 3 Descriptor 4. Elements of food webs ensure long-term abundance and reproductionDescriptor 4 Descriptor 5. Eutrophication is minimisedDescriptor 5 Descriptor 6. The sea floor integrity ensures functioning of the ecosystemDescriptor 6 Descriptor 7. Permanent alteration of hydrographical conditions does not adversely affect the ecosystemDescriptor 7 Descriptor 8. Concentrations of contaminants give no effectsDescriptor 8 Descriptor 9. Contaminants in seafood are below safe levelsDescriptor 9 Descriptor 10. Marine litter does not cause harmDescriptor 10 Descriptor 11. Introduction of energy (including underwater noise) does not adversely affect the ecosystemDescriptor 11

7. INSPIRE M ARINE P ILOT The aim of the INSPIRE marine pilot is to help improve the understanding of INSPIRE in the management of MSFD-related spatial information, and to provide guidance and tools that facilitate the mentioned obligations. http://inspire-marine.jrc.europa.eu Work Package 0- Management and communication Work Package 1- Overview of MSFD requirements in relation of INSPIRE Work Package 2- INSPIRE-based MSFD spatial data modelling Work Package 3- Development of the data flow Work Package 4- EMODnet and INSPIRE Work Package 5- Document and analyse the cost and benefit Work Package 6- Training and capacity building

8. WP1- Overview of MSFD requirements in relation of INSPIRE Link between INSPIRE & MSFD legal requirements:  MSFD & INSPIRE directives  COM 2010/477/EU on criteria and methodological standards on GES (MSFD)  Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services + 3 amendments documents (INSPIRE) Status:  Comments and questions received from SE, SL, ENV on DIKE-11-2015-06 – Thank you!  Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015

9. WP2- INSPIRE-based MSFD spatial data modelling Spatial data modeling:  Document and share data coming from the MSFD monitoring programmes  Introduction to the use of INSPIRE data standards  Data models for further use in the marine pilot Status:  Tabled today as DIKE-12-2015-05a, for comments and questions by end of November 2015  Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015

10. WP3- Development of the data flow MSFD INSPIRE Member StatesEEA More details during eReporting session

11. WP3- Development of the data flow Sandbox – development of technical solutions and tools – including free and open source software – that can be used required data flow http://inspire-marine.jrc.ec.europa.eu

12. First results from the data exercise MSFD Descriptor D5: Human-induced eutrophication is minimised, especially adverse effects thereof, such as losses in biodiversity, ecosystem degradation, harmful algal blooms and oxygen deficiency in bottom waters Including following indicators:  Nutrients concentration and ratio  Chlorophyll concentration  Water transparency related to increase in suspended algae, where relevant  Abundance of opportunistic macroalgae  Species shift in floristic composition such as diatom to flagellate ratio, benthic to pelagic shifts, as well as bloom events of nuisance/toxic algal blooms (e.g. cyanobacteria) caused by human activities  Abundance of perennial seaweeds and seagrasses (e.g. fucoids, eelgrass and Neptune grass) adversely impacted by decrease in water transparency  Dissolved oxygen, i.e. changes due to increased organic matter decomposition and size of the area concerned

13. Metadata Languages DE geoportal expects German keywords  search “MSFD” or “Marine” : no results  Search: “MSRL”=German acronym of “MSFD” or “Meeresstrategie”=“Marine strategy” found metadata

14. Metadata Keywords The data and services published on geoportal include datasets about some parameters (for example Chlorophyll)  Geoserver data services  Using some keywords to find Chlorophill data on geoportal have no result (tested keywords: CHLS, Chlorophyll) –Metadata geoportal data services

15. Metadata: operational suggestions Keywords Insert the most important keywords related to the collected data Select keywords from thematic thesauri   Client able to exploit thesauri can recover metadata from: term ID (language independent) Exploiting narrower/relatives terms Semantic interoperability Language For cross-countries search, use at least also English translation of each keyword

16. Data Language: Field description and field value in NL  DE (English): field names and values FID Monster.identific atie Meetpunt.identific atie Parameter.omschri jving Biotaxon.na am Eenheid.co de Hoedanigheid.c ode Waardebewerkingsmethod e.code Inspire_Marine.fid- 7034c7f7_1504732985b_3e3318 chlorofyl-aug/lNVTP90 Inspire_Marine.fid- 7034c7f7_1504732985b_3e4317 chlorofyl-aug/lNVTP90 Inspire_Marine.fid- 7034c7f7_1504732985b_3e5316 chlorofyl-aug/lNVTP90 Inspire_Marine.fid- 7034c7f7_1504732985b_3e6315 chlorofyl-aug/lNVTP90 Inspire_Marine.fid- 7034c7f7_1504732985b_3e7314 chlorofyl-aug/lNVTP90 FIDIDSTATION_NAMEDATETIMEPARAMETERBESCHREIBUNG DESCRIPTI ONSIGNVALUEUNITORIGIN STATIO NIDLAT CPHL.fid- 1e767396_1504c465719_-2d07 NI_NL WKN_1Nney_W_2 2003-04- 07T23:59:00CPHLChlorophyll-a 30,79µg/L ni_nlwk n79 53, 698 66 CPHL.fid- 1e767396_1504c465719_-2d06 NI_NL WKN_1Nney_W_2 2004-07- 07T23:59:00CPHLChlorophyll-a 0,71µg/L ni_nlwk n79 53, 698 66 CPHL.fid- 1e767396_1504c465719_-2d05 NI_NL WKN_1Nney_W_2 2000-01- 25T23:59:00CPHLChlorophyll-a 4,03µg/L ni_nlwk n79 53, 698 66 CPHL.fid- 1e767396_1504c465719_-2d04 NI_NL WKN_1Nney_W_2 2005-01- 07T23:59:00CPHLChlorophyll-a 6,55µg/L ni_nlwk n79 53, 698 66

17. Data Methodology applied to measure the collected observation Example of chlorophyll-a different measures at the same time in the same place with different methodology 1° dataset: DE - method undeclared 2° dataset: DE - method declared 3° dataset: NL – method undeclared DE NL

18. Data Unit of measures The analysed datasets have information about the unit of measurement. The same parameters are not always expressed using the same unit of measurement DE  In some datasets, the chlorophyll-a is expressed in μg/l and in others in mg/l. NL  the chlorophyll-a is expressed in μg/l

19. What INSPIRE offers? Common approach to: Language Field description About field value, some of them are solved with the use of codelists stored in reference multi-languages registries Definition of field value Codelists colected in registry/thesauri solves also the meaning of the field value (semantic interoperability) Indication of methodology applied to compute parameters On Metadata information On data model (EMF)

20. What INSPIRE doesn’t solve Scale of geospatial element The scale of exposed data are stored in metadata for interoperability No mandate of exposing specific dataset in a pre-defined scale Unit of measures INSPIRE manages the parameters value and the related unit of measures used for them. No mandate of exposing specific parameter values in a pre- defined unit of measure These aspects need to be agreed in reporting requirements

21. WP4- EMODnet and INSPIRE Overview of legal, organizational, semantic and technical relations Based on outcomes of EMODNET & INPSPIRE workshop 30/06/2015 Proposes different roles for EMODnet in support of INSPIRE implementation in MS Status:  Tabled today as DIKE-12-2015-05b, for comments and questions by end of November 2015  Update (REV 3) scheduled for December 2015  Concrete action plan to be discussed with EMODnet projects in week of 20 October 2015  Possible use of EMODnet products in marine pilot

22. WP6- Training and capacity building Developed three training modules: -On line training modules for the basic INSPIRE understanding -Web conferences (recorded and available on line) – related to the interoperability and INSPIRE data models related to the MSFD implementation -“Hands on” – training module – capacity building for the transformation of data sets into INSPIRE data model; development of the INSPIRE compliant metadata, use of sandbox tools, etc… -We want to share with other MSFD implementers

23. Next steps Project progressing well with good discussions among the expanding partners France, Spain, and Italy indicated interest to participate in second phase HELCOM and OSPAR Written comments from WG DIKE members on D2.0 and D4.2 – first cut-off date for comments 27/11/2015 Inclusion of other interested MS in the pilot welcomed

24. Thank you for your attention! Inspire-info@jrc.ec.europa.eu http://inspire.ec.europa.eu