1. EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off Meeting 17-19 May 2017
Input from GESs TG
ISPRA
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2. MSFD implementation Next MSFD implementation steps:
II cycle ( ) assessment (art.8), update of Good Environmental Status definition (art.9) and Environmental Target to reach GES (art.10). Due by July
Adoption of new revision of the Commission Decision on criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and specifications and standardised methods for monitoring and assessment
Final goal: achieving GES by 2020 .
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3. II cycle MSFD WG GES inputs:
Assessment for pressure, impact and state of marine environment (art.8), WG GES working document:
GES_ Draft guidance for assessments under Article 8 of the MSFD
Reporting on assessment (art.8), update of Good Environmental Status definition (art.9) and Environmental Target to reach GES (art.10) WG GES & DIKE working document:
DIKE_ rev - Reporting on the 2018 update of articles 8, 9 & 10 for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive version 2.1
DIKE_ MSFD marine reporting units
DIKE_ Bringing WFD assessments to MSFD reporting
Adoption of new revision of the Commission Decision on GES :
To be published soon: COMMISSION DECISION (EU) …/… of XXX laying down criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and specifications and standardised methods for monitoring and assessment, and repealing Decision 2010/477/EU .
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4. II cycle MSFD Reporting II cycle main issues
Up to Member States to use criteria from new or old Commission Decision in the assessment, update of GES and Target, but:
Coherence with GES and Targets adopted in 2012 should be assured
Regional or subregional cooperation should be guaranteed
Barcellona Convention EcAp process is based on old Commission Decision
Monitoring programme established in the I cycle are based on the old Commission Decision
New Commission Decision distinguish primary and secondary criteria:
primary criteria should be used to ensure consistency across the Union. If not used, Member States Member States shall provide a justification.
Use of a secondary criterion should be decided by Member States, where necessary, to complement a primary criterion or when, for a particular criterion, the marine environment is at risk of not achieving or not maintaining good environmental status.
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5. II cycle MSFD Reporting II cycle main issues
Assessment areas now renamed Marine Reporting Unit should be based on common criteria assuring coherence with others directives like WFD:
Main hydrological process chemico-physical characteristics should be taken into account - linkages with EMODNet Chemistry (Oxygen, Chl-a, nutrients,..) EMODNet Physics and Bathymetry, Copernicus)
Main pressures and impacts included into the analysis (see EMODNet Chemistry - eutrophication, contaminants, riverine inputs)
WFD water bodies and River Basin Management Plans already establish a scale of assessment
Administrative management borders (for ex. regions, counties, municipalities) shape programme of measures implementation
Availability of data will also play a major role (EMODNet, Copernicus, national monitoring programmes,…)
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6. II cycle MSFD Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
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7. II cycle MSFD Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
The revised Commission Decision indicates the following spatial scales for assessment:
Coastal waters: the water bodies as used under Directive 2000/60/EC. This will facilitate the reuse of information from WFD;
Beyond coastal waters, subdivisions of the region or subregion, divided where needed by national boundaries. Salinity gradients may be considered when determining the subdivisions.
Thresholds values:
In coastal waters, the threshold values for most criteria are the values set in accordance with the WFD. For criterion D5C3, Member States shall establish threshold values through regional or subregional cooperation.
Beyond coastal waters, Member States shall establish threshold values through regional or subregional cooperation. The threshold values shall be consistent with those for coastal waters under the WFD.
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8. II cycle MSFD WFD vs MSFD – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
WFD Status Quality Element
(StatusQE_Enum)
MSFD Criteria for D5 (draft revised Decision)
QE1-1 – Phytoplankton
D5C2 – Chlorophyll a concentration (P)
D5C3 – Harmful algal blooms (S)
QE1-2-1 – Macroalgae
D5C6 – Opportunistic macroalgae of benthic habitats (S)
D5C7 – Macrophyte communities of benthic habitats (S)
QE1-2-2 – Angiosperms
QE1-3 – Benthic invertebrates
D5C8 – Macrofaunal communities of benthic habitats (S)
QE3-1-1 – Transparency conditions
D5C4 – Photic limit (S)
QE3-1-3 – Oxygenation conditions
D5C5 – Dissolved oxygen concentration (P)
QE – Nitrogen conditions
D5C1 – Nutrient concentrations (P)
QE – Phosphorus Conditions
(P) Primary criteria; (S) Secondary criteria
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9. II cycle MSFD Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 8 on contaminants
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10. II cycle MSFD Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 8 on contaminants
The revised Commission Decision indicates the following spatial scales for assessment:
D8C1 – contaminants concentration and D8C2 – effects of contaminants on species:
Within coastal and territorial waters: as used under Directive 2000/60/EC. This implies the use of WFD water bodies in coastal waters, and other polygons if defined for territorial waters, and will facilitate the reuse of information from WFD. Note that for good ecological status, WFD requires Member States to define water bodies for assessment (i.e. assessment units) within 1 nm.
Beyond territorial waters: subdivisions of the region or subregion, divided where needed by national boundaries.
D8C3 – acute pollution events concentration: Region or subregion, divided where needed by national boundaries.
D8C4 – acute pollution events effects : The same assessment scales and areas as used for the species groups or benthic broad habitat types under Descriptors 1 and 6.
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11. II cycle MSFD D8 contaminants GES assessment threshold values
From new Revision of Commission Decision on GES:
Within coastal and territorial waters, the concentrations of contaminants do not exceed the following threshold values:
(a) for contaminants set out under EQSD and River Basin Specific Pollutants, the values set in accordance with Directive 2000/60/EC (i.e. EQSD thresholds);
(b) when contaminants under point (a) are measured in a matrix for which no value is set under Directive 2000/60/EC, the concentration of those contaminants in that matrix established by Member States through regional or subregional cooperation;
Beyond territorial waters, the concentrations of contaminants do not exceed the following threshold values:
(c) for contaminants selected under point (a) of criteria elements, the values as applicable within coastal and territorial waters;
(d) for contaminants selected under point (b) of criteria elements, the concentrations for a specified matrix pollution effects. Member States shall establish these concentrations through regional or subregional cooperation.
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12. II cycle MSFD
MSFD contaminants GES assessment vs EQSD threshold values
Contaminants
EQSD
RBSP
Additional
Matrix
No EQSD
EQSD thresholds
MS thresholds with regional cooperation
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13. Thank You
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