Marine Strategy Framework Directive: Status of reporting Art. 8/9/10 Progress with Art. 12 assessment European Commission DG Environment Marine Environment and Water Industry Unit WG DIKE 7-8 October 2013, Brussels

MSFD Scoreboard Status at 7 Oct. 2013 Art. 26 Art. 7 Art. 8/ 9/10 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/marine/eu-coast-and-marine-policy/implementation/scoreboard_en.htm Status at 7 Oct. 2013 Art. 26 Art. 7 Art. 8/ 9/10 Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Art. 26 Art. 7 Art. 8/ 9/10 Latvia Lithuania Malta Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Spain Sweden UK Received Part received Not received

Art. 8 (initial assessment) Art. 9 (determination of GES) Art Art. 8 (initial assessment) Art. 9 (determination of GES) Art. 10 (targets) Reporting elements: Paper reports Electronic reports (reporting sheets) Priority fields (7 xml files) Non-priority fields (7 xml files updated) Geographic data (2 shapefiles)

Assessment, GES, targets – reports received (Art. 8, 9, 10) Status at 7 Oct. 2013 Member State 'Paper' reports Electronic reports Art. 8, 9, 10 Art. 8, 9, 10 (7 xml files) Spatial data (2 files) BE Belgium BG Bulgaria HR Croatia CY Cyprus DK Denmark EE Estonia FR France FI Finland DE Germany EL Greece IE Ireland IT Italy LV Latvia LT Lithuania MT Malta NL Netherlands PL Poland PT Portugal RO Romania SI Slovenia ES Spain SE Sweden UK United Kingdom Report received Report part received Report not received 6

Reporting Art. 8/9/10 - summary Non reporting PL Partial reporting HR, PT Geographic data (maps) awaited BG, CY, HR, (MT), PL, PT Locked files (paper, electronic) RO All articles and (sub)regions (paper, electronic) BE, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, EL, IT, LV, LT, NL, RO, SI, SE Partial reporting: PT missing Azores & Madeira; HR missing 8c, 9, 10 Electronic reports (xml): missing for PL, PT (BG –missing 8; HR – missing 8c, 9, 10; UK missing for Gibraltar) Geographic files needed for reference data sets (maps) – important to have MS submit their boundaries for MSFD marine waters (not have to use VLIZ EEZ data set)

Art. 12 progress in 2013 Questionnaire template and criteria for assessment developed Reports/sheets from 20 MS on art 8, 9 &10 received per 30th April are assessed Assessment results in consultant report per MS (in English) Assessment results in consultant report per region Now: COM Finalizing the art 12 report

Deliverables COM drafts Communication (12 page doc to be translated) with main conclusions, recommendations and proposed way forward Commission Staff Working Document with more detailed analysis per article/descriptor/region on performance of MS and region Fact Sheet per MS (highlights results) Annexes with Questionnaire template and criteria used

DG Environment, Unit D.2 Marine Environment and Water Industry 13.04.2019 Article 12 time lines Autumn 2013: finalisation of COM Art 12 exercise Interservice consultation in-house COM Last quarter 2013/2014: technical in-depth assessments on selected issues by JRC and "MSFD 2012 Baseline assessment" by EEA Main results at Marine Directors meeting in December Translation and adoption by College early 2014 Communication CSWD available prior to Marine Conference, 3-4 March 2014