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Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) – Reporting requirements and status of Competent Authority reporting Working Group on Data, Information & Knowledge Exchange 11 May 2011 European Commission, Brussels David Connor DG Environment, Marine Environment Unit 2

MSFD provisions for reporting Reporting by MS to the Commission for a number of Articles, e.g.: Art. 26 - transposition Art. 7 – competent authorities Art. 8 – initial assessment MS are required to make public: Summary information relating to the IA, GES, targets, monitoring and measures (Art. 19.2) Report on network of MPAs and where management action at Community/international level is needed (Art 13.6) Access to data and information by MS (Art 19.3) Provide the Commission with access and use rights in respect of data and information resulting from the initial assessments and from the monitoring programmes Within six months to the EEA INSPIRE compliant Technical formats for reporting (Art. 24.2) Technical formats may be adopted for the purposes of transmission and processing of data, including statistical and cartographic data.

Main elements of MS reporting Article Deliverable Date WISE-Marine 26 Transposition into national law 15-07-2010 4.2 Subdivisions (of subregions) 7.1 Competent authorities 15-01-2011 Yes Revision of subdivisions 15-07-2012 9.2, 10.2 Initial assessment, determination of GES, environmental targets 15-10-2012 13.6 Report on network of MPAs 31-12-2013 (public) 11.3 Monitoring programmes 15-10-2014 13.9 Programmes of measures 31-03-2016 17.3 Updates of assessments, GES, targets 15-10-2018 18 Interim report on progress with measures 31-12-2018 ? Updates of monitoring programmes 15-10-2020 Updates of programmes of measures 31-03-2022 Main MSFD reporting requirements for MS with elements that can be expected to fall under WISE Marine reporting indicated. The 2013 MPA report is to ‘public’ but COM to review in 2014. Subdivisions (where identified) should be tied with provision of a GIS file of area of marine waters covered by IA 4

Data and information Reporting sheets for Art. 8, 9, 10 Interpretation GES determination, assessment GES criterion Target & indicator Target & indicator GES criterion Reporting sheets for Art. 8, 9, 10 Interpretation Assessment of current state (IA) Information Data Characterisation of marine environment, pressures, impacts & uses (IA) Underlying evidence/knowledge base (e.g. used in IA, from monitoring programmes) e.g. INSPIRE, EMODnet, GMES Data access

Reporting of Competent Authorities Reportnet facility developed late 2010 Guidance developed from WFD, based on MSFD Annex II Name, address of each CA Legal status Responsibilities Membership Regional/subregional coordination Guidance released in March 2011, with request for nominations of official contacts for MSFD reporting Request to report on CAs by 30 April 2011 Reminder late April

State of play on Competent Authority reporting (02/05/11) MS By letter WISE reporting Reported QA Approved AT L ES J MT BE FI NL K BG FR PL CY HU PT CZ IE RO DE IT SE DK LT SI EE LU SK EL LV UK 16 underway 11 to start SI - File delivered but task not released by reporter UK – For Gibraltar Approved – needs check by DG ENV before MS finalisation – DE, LT, LU, NL are not checked by ENV but MS has finalised report in WISE The column “by letter” reflects the following: GREEN – Letter with details at Member State level received (not yet checked by Commission) YELLOW – Letter with details for part of Member State received RED – No letter received (not necessary if now reported into WISE) The WISE reporting columns reflect: GREEN – Completed YELLOW – Partially completed RED – Not yet completed Reporter nominated: AT, IR, UK 7

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