1. NEA GIG lead and coordination
Proposal at SCG 30. September 2013
Foto: Maria Pettersvik Salmer
Anders Iversen
Senior adviser, Norwegian Environment Agency

2. SCG and Water Directors, May 2013: North East Atlantic geographical intercalibration group (NEA GIG, involving UK, EI, FR, BE, NL, ES, PT, DE, DK, SW, NO) presently lacks a leadership … a solution has to be found urgently.

3. Proposal for NEA GIG lead/coordination: Lead from Institute of Marine Research (IMR). - Gro van der Meeren JPI Oceans contributes with intercalibration expertise. - Wendy Bonne Shared funding by NEA GIG countries.

4. Institute of Marine Research
“Knowledge and advice for clean marine and coastal regions”.
Norway’s largest Centre for marine science. 700 employees.
Focus on ecosystems in the sea and coastal areas.
Head office in Bergen, 3 regional offices, research vessels.
50% financed by Ministry of Fisheries and coastal Affairs.
Foto : Jiri Paur

5. Gro van der Meeren
Member of “ecosystem processes” research group in IMR.
ICES WG Ecosystem Effects of Fishing.
Coordinated Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring for OSPAR/MFSD.
Ecosystem Assessment of Norwegian Sea.
Nature Index for Norway.
Etc.
Council of EU for competitiveness.
Foto: Maria Pettersvik Salmer

6. “Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans”
JPI Oceans
“Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans”
Intergovernmental approach, adopted by the Council December 2011.
Long-term integration and coordination platform for marine/maritime research:
Joint research programmes
Sharing capacity and data
Science-to-policy mechanisms
19 member states, and COM observer in Management Board.
Expertise with intercalibration, WFD, MSFD.
EU COM observer in the management board.
Director Norwegian, and largest contributor.
Foto: Maria Pettersvik Salmer

8. Next steps. WFD SCG September 30th
Next steps ? WFD SCG September 30th. ECOSTAT October 22-23th + (NEA-GIG meeting?) WFD SCG November 4-5th. JPI Oceans Management Board November 13th.

9. To be agreed: Shared funding Work programme Responsibilities IMR and JPI Oceans

10. Foto: Linn B. Ludvigsen