1. MSFD Marine Litter D10 – EMODNET Collaboration
EMODNET Chemistry module annual meeting (videolink)
Georg Hanke, Anna Addamo, EC JRC,

2. MSFD update
For MSFD general info please see JRC presentation from EMODNET chemistry module kick-off meeting ( )
MSFD ComDec 2017/848/EU has been adopted
MSFD 2018 reporting is upcoming

3. EU Plastics Strategy (COM/2018/028 final)
"European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy"
Adopted on
Part of Circular Economy Package
Framework touching on multiple legislations (MSFD, WFD, Waste Framework Directive, etc., etc.)
Production, recycling, SUP avoidance, etc.
Requires information on plastic leakages to the environment
Input from Top Litter item work (data collected through TG Marine Litter, JRC analysis)
Confirmed need for access to consolidated and complete datasets!

4. Top Litter Items (input to Plastics Strategy)
Analysis of 2016 beach litter dataset
(Upcoming report Addamo et al.)
276 beaches of 17 EU Member States and 4 Regional Seas during 2016
Total of 355,671 items observed during 679 surveys

5. Technical Group on Marine Litter
Confirmation of delegates (now 80) including
Delegates from all EU coastal MS
DG ENV, DG MARE, DG GROW
OSPAR, HELCOM, MAP, BSC secretariate delegates
New Wiki on-line exchange
platform is operational
Website:

6. Baselines for Beach Litter
TG ML Baselines Workshop March 2017
Collected data from MS, Projects, NGOs, etc.
Ca surveys on 370 beaches
Process of re-formatting, harmonizing, correcting
Geographical coordinates
Litter categories, etc..
(Upcoming report: Addamo, JRC)
Close collaboration with EMODNET!

7. Update of Guidance for Monitoring of Marine Litter
Guidance published end 2013
Improved harmonization (also through TG ML)
Technical progress through research
Analysis of shortcomings available
TG Marine Litter annual meeting June 2017, Gdansk, Poland:
Review of all methodologies is needed

8. Beach Litter Harmonized monitoring approach (visual 100 m surveys)
Use of litter category list(s)
Open issues, e.g.:
Size ranges (lower, upper limits), size information
Categories not comparable/use of joint categories
Detailed metadata often missing
Harmonised beach selection (beach metadata)

9. Seafloor Litter
Available data from International Bottom Trawl Survey cruises (IBTS, MEDITS,…)
Category lists to be reviewed (still differences between schemes)
Important input from EMODNET analysis to guidance review!
JRC/AWI workshop on the Monitoring of Seafloor Litter (provisional date: end May 2018)
Scope:
Identification of harmonization needs for new methodologies
Providing data from areas beyond bottom-trawl surveys

10. Micro Litter (Micro Plastic)
Method development is ongoing
Multiple analytical options
No QA/QC in place (but questionable data are around...)
Close collaboration with JPI Ocean research projects started
Rising attention from other sectors (food quality, water reuse, etc.)
Micro litter data template existing
(collaboration with TG ML)
EMODNET Data collection will
reveal gaps and shortcomings!
Photo: Paula Sobral

11. Floating Litter Method development and testing is ongoing
JRC Floating Litter App has been tested and applied
Harmonization at international level (collaboration with UN, research projects, 6IMDC session, etc.)
Camera/image recognition system in development
Data are stored locally (RIMMEL project, Medsealitter, etc.)

12. Outlook
Joint data repository will drive data quality and comparability
Data availability will provide information for policy use
Need to always well define scope of maps and data products
Need to include non-EU data in shared seas
Need to still increase collaboration between all stakeholders
Focus on „data of tomorrow“

13. Contaminants MSFD D8+D9 Publication of report
„Potential marine contaminants“
2700 substances, reference list for improved communication
Collection of substances considered by MS through MSFD Expert Network on Contaminants for MSFD reporting (ca. 400)
EMODNET as data repository and driver for data quality and comparability
Complex challenge of mapping contaminant data (hundred of substances, multiple matrix, metadata influence, etc.)
Definition of scope is essential! Open for discussions!

14. Thanks for your attention!