1. 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

2. Process to date Joint discussions with WG GES and WG DIKE
Ad-hoc monitoring meeting 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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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 ??

10. 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)

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. Thank you for your attention!
Thank you for your attention!