1. Trine Christiansen Constanca Belchior
Wise-Marine
Trine Christiansen
Constanca Belchior

2. MSFD 6 year cycle With each step something has to be reported 2012
Initial assessmnet
2014
Monitoring Programmes
2015
Programme of Measures
2018
assessment
2020
Good Environmental Status?
With each step
something
has to be reported

3. 2012 Reporting requirements
Characteristics (Annex III, Table 1)
Article 8
Pressures and Impacts (Annex III, Table 2)
Economic and social analysis
Set of characteristics for Good Environmental Status (GES) (Annex I)
Article 9
Article 10
Environmental targets and associated indicators
(I’m sure everybody is very familiar with these, so no need to dwell on them...)

4. 2012 Reporting requirements
Article 9(2): notify the Commission of the initial assessment and determination of GES; Article 10(2): notify of environmental targets.
Article 19(3): grant access and use rights to data and information.
Article 24(2)(b): adoption of technical formats for transmission and processing of data.
There are a number of articles that relate to the requirements for Member States to report and share data and information.
Article 9(2) requires Member States to ‘notify the Commission of the [initial] assessment ... and of the determination [of a set of characteristics for good environmental status]’ within three months of their completion
Article 10(2) sets out the requirement to ‘notify the Commission of the environmental targets’ within three months of their establishment (both of these would be due by 15 October 2012).
Article 19(3) highlights the need for Member States to grant access and use rights in respect of data and information resulting from the Initial Assessments to the Commission, and also to make them available to the European Environment Agency (no later than) six months after the data and information have become available (i.e. by 15 January 2013).
Article 24(2)(b) specifies that technical formats may be adopted for the purposes of transmission and processing of data, including statistical and cartographic data. The reporting sheets provide a means of specifying such a technical format.

5. Reporting sheets Reporting sheets to identify what and how to report
Need to take account of future reporting:
2012 reporting likely to need further development
Reporting framework to integrate future requirements
Reporting sheets used under WFD – some will be familiar with them
Specify what data/information should be reported, what units, etc. Allow a forum for agreement to be reached amongst MS on reporting requirements.
2012 reporting should therefore take these future reporting requirements into account and be considered as part of an overall process for two main reasons:
- Firstly, the scope and detail of reporting in 2012 is likely to need further development to support future assessments and monitoring of progress towards achieving GES; and
- Need to take into account future reporting requirements to ensure that the overall framework is streamlined and consistent.

6. Links between Annex III Tables 1 & 2 and Annex I
Characteristics
Current state assessed against determination of Good Environmental Status
Targets
& indicators
Annex III,
Table 2
Pressures & impacts
Pressures and impacts may influence the current characteristics.
The current state of the environment, pressures and impacts, contribute to the determination of GES and the assessment of where we are in relation to GES

7. Analysis and Interpretation
What is Wise-Marine?
- a system for reporting and information sharing
Data and Information
Reporting process for information and data relevant to MSFD assessments
Analysis and Interpretation
Indicators and assessments showing progress towards good environmental status
Information sharing
Webbased information system

8. Working structure within EC: Environmental data centres

9. EEA Reportnet
Reporting classic – handles basic functions related to reporting
System used for handling reporting from WFD and HD

10. The long term vision for WISE-Marine (and other information systems at EEA)
information services
National
Data
Centres
Research projects
Sub-national
Data
Centres
INSPIRE
Internet
(Geonetwork Inspire)
User
For example, as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, develops, more and more data on the marine environment will be made available to the EEA and this will happen through WISE-Marine. Wise Marine will be based on SEIS principles which are:
SEIS Principles
information should be managed as close as possible to its source
information is provided once and shared with others for many purposes
data and information should be readily accessible to end-users to enable them to access it timely
information should be made available to the public after due consideration of the appropriate level of aggregation, given possible confidentiality constraints, and at national level in the national language(s)
WISE-Marine under development as part of MSFD implementation. Preparatory work lead by the EEA and DG ENV over
Partnership of a wide range of data providers at different level, keeping data as close as possible to its source, to ensure quality and maintenance, e.g. FP projects
Links to data sources include the Integrated Maritime Policy’s EMODNET and the Sea bottom mapping project (highlighted with fly-in)
WISE-Marine should allow access to the data and information but it mainly aims at providing an ‘interpretation’ of this information such as Indicators and assessments
MSFD & WFD data
GMES
EMODNET &
MARATLAS
International
Conventions
Data from
other
Directives
Geo-ref.

11. Data input: sea surface temperature
Analysis:
Assessment:
Over the past 25 years the rate of increase in sea surface temperature in all European seas has been about 10 times faster than the average rate of increase during the past century. In five European seas the warming occurs even more rapidly. In the North and Baltic Seas temperature rose five to six times faster than the global average over the past 25 years, and three times faster in the Black and Mediterranean Seas.

12. Another example - Sea floor habitat types depend on:
geology
Water
transparency
Sea floor
salinity
Bathymetry

13. Broad scale sea floor habitat maps
North Sea
Celtic Seas
Western Mediterranean
Making physical data ecologically relevant

14. Key elements need still need discussion:
EMODnet – potentially most important initiative for marine data sharing
Key elements need still need discussion:
MSFD will request/provide data in all domains
What data types can be accomodated?
Point observations
Gridded data
Aggregated data
How will it work to provide data to Emodnet?
Data tagging/traceability
Link to INSPIRE infrastructure is essential