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Background

• Agreement on a second holistic assessment, by 2016, at the

2013 HELCOM Ministerial Meeting, including to:

– develop regional assessments so that they can be used by CPs in assessments of marine and coastal waters and for EU MSFD reporting – further develop, test and apply HELCOM assessment tools – develop operational assessments of pressures and update the Baltic Sea Impact Index. – include economic and social analysis of the use of the Baltic Sea and of the cost of degradation of the marine environment.

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Status of assessment tools

• HEAT (eutrophication): Current version 3.0. Will be further

developed in EUTRO-OPER.

• CHASE (hazardous substances): Was further developed in

project HARMONY.

• BEAT (biodiversity): Is further developed in EU-project

DEVOTES.

• BSPI and BSII (Baltic Sea Pressure and Impact Index): Were

further developed in project HARMONY.

• HOLAS (integrated assessment): Has not been further

developed since last the holistic assessment

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Targets for HOLAS II

• Update assessment tools
• Analysis according to the Drivers-Pressure-State-Impact-

Response framework (with less emphasis on D and R)

• Production of a roof report for EU reporting 2018
• Contribute to the aim of HELCOM assessments to be fully
• perational and increasingly automated
• Support the implementation of the HELCOM Monitoring and

Assessment Strategy

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Activities

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• A1. Level of human activities

and pressures (BSPI)

• A2. State of the Baltic

Sea (and cumulative impacts from A1)

• A3. Impact on society;

cost of degradation and benefits of mitigation

• A4. Existing and

planned measures to reach GES

• A5. Drivers of

environmental degradation; sufficency of measures

• A6. Solutions
• A1. Level of human activities

and pressures (BSPI)

• A2. State of the Baltic

Sea (and cumulative impacts from A1)

• A3. Impact on society;

cost of degradation and benefits of mitigation

A4+A5. Existing and planned measures to reach GES. Sufficency of measures, drivers of change.

• A6. Solutions

Project management

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Chair and HOLAS core team

Project Researcher A2 Lead Country A3 Lead Country A4+A5**

Expert workshops

Project Researcher* A1

Coordinating function Main activities Input from HELCOM WGs, projects, expert groups Project coordinator* A6 Solutions

• Project coordinator will also act as project researcher of A1.
• ** A4 and A5 will be carried out with less level of detail than A1-A3.

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