Marine Environment and Water Industry Unit Marine Strategy Framework Directive: reporting on monitoring programmes European Commission DG Environment Marine Environment and Water Industry Unit WG DIKE 18-19 March 2013, Brussels

Process to date Joint discussions with WG GES and WG DIKE Ad-hoc monitoring meeting 22-23 January Development of concepts and principles for MSFD monitoring Refinement of reporting paper, particularly the main questions to address and reporting structure Post-meeting development Comments by MS on a revised reporting paper Paper further revised for WG DIKE, also taking account of revised concept paper

What does the Directive require? – Art. 11 and Annex V Approach to reporting What does the Directive require? – Art. 11 and Annex V What does the Commission need? – Art. 12 Links to Art. 8, 9, 10 (assessment, GES, targets) [Future] links to Art. 13 (measures) Effective and efficient reporting

Links to Directive and Art. 12 Analysis of Directive requirements Art. 11 and Annex V Associated articles – 5, 6, 19 Commission assessment (Art. 12) Key requirements identified (as per concept paper) Assessment of environmental status (against GES) Assessment of progress with targets Supporting requirements Effectiveness of measures Activities causing pressures, new/emerging issues Variability/major changes in environment Coherence/consistency across region, integration with other policies Leads to: set of questions about the programmes (Annex 1)

Structure Relationship Art. 11 to Art. 19.3 What is a programme? What can be defined now, what is variable during implementation? What is a programme? Level of detail per programme – number of ‘programmes’ Variability within a theme (e.g. methods for offshore versus inshore) How to accommodate different types of monitoring (e.g. state/impact, pressures, activities, measures) and differing levels of detail/periodicity (surveillance, investigative)

with ‘survey’ and ‘processing’ metadata Relationship Art 11, Art 19.3 Monitoring programme reporting Data products Data Reporting for Art 11 to EC WISE-Marine Access for EC/EEA Art 19.3 INSPIRE compliance with ‘survey’ and ‘processing’ metadata

Decentralisation & regional cooperation How can ‘reporting’ be made most efficient? Multiple ‘audiences’ European scale - EC/EEA Regional scale – RSC, ICES/GCFM, RFMOs etc National – Policy, public, technical delivery Integration Other EU Directives RSC and other international agreements CFP (DCF) National programmes

Directive ‘needs’ (reporting question) Decentralisation Directive ‘needs’ (reporting question) National ‘needs’ EC ‘needs’ (Art. 12) Technical Policy Public Summary Which descriptor? Which target? Link to other programmes? How, where, when, etc? Structure for programme Differing levels of detail Held by MS, access by COM Report to COM

Regional cooperation on reporting Directive ‘needs’ (reporting question) National ‘needs’ EC ‘needs’ (Art. 12) Technical Policy Public Summary Which descriptor? Which target? Link to other programmes? How, where, when, etc? Reports prepared jointly for common programmes Prepared once for all MS Demonstrates coherence across (sub)region ??

Possible structure for Programmes Programme: eutrophication Benthos Plankton Oxygen Nutrients Input loads Area-based study Environment: state/impact Measures: pressure reduction Environment:investigative Environment: pressure Accommodate: Areas of higher intensity (= WFD operational) Areas of lower intensity (= WFD surveillance)

Possible structure for D1, 3, 4, 6 State/ impact: Birds Mammals, reptiles Fish, cephalopods Pelagic (plankton) Benthic community Physical: Bathy/ substrate Chemistry N, P, O2 Oceanography T, S, currents D3 Commercial fisheries D1 Biodiversity (mobile species groups) D6 Seafloor integrity D1 Biodiversity (seabed habitats) D4 Food webs D1 Biodiversity (water column habitats) Pressure Physical loss/damage Hydrological changes Extraction of spp. Activities Coastal Fisheries Sand & gravel Oil & gas Renewable energy Measures (existing only for 2014) Area-based measures MPA effectiveness EIAs Examples: Double-ended blue arrows = similarities in data collected/methods – could be combined. Assessments

Outstanding issues (Annex 3) Definition of ‘programme’ Purpose of reporting section Inclusion of links to Art. 19(3) Links to existing monitoring programmes Links to existing measures

Proposed way forward Discuss and agree the main paper Discuss and develop options for decentralisation and regional cooperation on reporting Discuss and agree the ‘questions’ (Annex 1) Develop the reporting sheet structure and ‘responses’ to the questions (Annex 2) including what is a ‘programme’ and its components (sub-programmes) Discuss outstanding issues (from Annex 3) Develop process/actions up to MSCG/Marine Directors (May) and beyond

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