1. MSFD - Technical Group on Marine Litter Progress and future work
MSFD WG GES
European Commission
Joint Research Centre
G. Hanke

2. MSFD - Technical Group on Marine Litter Progress and future work
MSFD WG GES
European Commission
Joint Research Centre
G. Hanke

3. TG Marine Litter Mandate 2016-2018
MSFD CIS Document (MD )
Adjusted mandate for descriptor specific work
Additional requests:
TG ML to play key role in development + implementation of possibly revised GES Decision and Annex III (ongoing)
Program of measures
External dimension
Need to ensure resource allocation!

4. TG Marine Litter Annual meeting
, Palermo, Italy
25 participants
MS delegates, Stakeholder, Research representatives
DG ENV, EEA present
OSPAR, HELCOM, MAP present
Meeting report available on CIRCABC

5. Regional Sea Conventions
Three Regional Sea Conventions (HELCOM, OSPAR, Barcelona) have developed Regional Action Plans on marine litter. For the Black Sea, work on an Action Plan has started.
Joint Black Sea Commission + EMBLAS II Marine Litter workshop, (Istanbul, Turkey), all BS countries present, EMBLAS II (DG NEAR), input based on TG ML
TG ML Mandate: Can act as a platform to exchange knowledge and experiences for these regional seas action plans and to support their implementation across EU.

6. Marine Litter Research
DG R+I provided input on COLUMBUS + upcoming calls
JPI OCEANS – 4 projects started
PERSEUS - ended
Defishgear – ongoing/ending
RIMMEL - started ….
List of most relevant projects is being established on MCC (D10, Science for MSFD)
TG ML Mandate: TG litter expected to become a hub for knowledge sharing, disseminating and using the information from research and other marine litter projects

7. Marine Litter monitoring related projects:
EEA Litterwatch - EU (and beyond beach litter) monitoring
Surfrider - NGO approach for watershed litter assessments
Litterbase - Research data collection tool

8. TG ML Thematic Reports Identifying sources of marine litter
Final draft
Harm caused by marine litter
Monitoring of riverine litter
Advanced draft
Modelling of marine litter
Outline and draft text
Reports on CIRCABC for WG GES information

9. Monitoring methodologies and protocols
Further development of less mature approaches
Methods for Beach, Seafloor, Floating Litter, Entanglement, Ingestion
Providing protocols instead of initial guidance
Collaboration with JPI Oceans (micro litter)
Review and update of Master Category List

10. EU external dimension of marine litter
G7 activities
Monitoring meeting January 2016 (Tokyo), the 4 EU
countries provided coordinated TG ML based input
UN Environmental Assembly
Meeting on May 2016
Further work planned, need to inform and align
Sustainable development goal 14 “Life below water”
RIO +20
Mandate of TG ML: TG Litter will, to the extent possible, take into account international developments

11. Baselines roadmap 2016-2017 Mandate by MDs
Review of baselines setting approaches
(litter and other topics)
Review of data availability and quality
Dedicated workshop (end 2016)
Discussion and agreement on approach
Testing on selected datasets
Thresholds
Start of basic discussions

12. RIMMEL
RIverine and Marine floating macro litter - Monitoring and Modelling of Environmental Loading
MCC RIMMEL observation network
Observation network across Europe (and beyond)
Visual observation of river surface, documentation and data transfer via app
MS are invited to join!
Contact:

13. Next steps Finalize outstanding commitments
Adapt to new mandate, ensure resource allocation
Plan, prioritize, organize and start work in TG ML

14. Thank you for your attention !