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Developing EEA art 20.3b assessment

Trine Christiansen I 27/10/215 I Marine team meeting, Copenhagen

The sea area in Europe is about the same as the land area

Our partners and networks: the Eionet

http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/eionet-connects

SUSTAINABILITY

2050 2014/2018

WFD targets Nature Directives targets MSFD Baseline 2020 targets MSFD target (Good Environmental Status) Halt biodiversity loss Fisheries below Max. Sustainable Yield 20-20-20 targets Vision in 7EAP Reduce GHG 80- 95% Water blueprint Zero impacts (air) SDGs ?

TIME

2014-2018 thematic policies timelines and deadlines 2020/2030 comprehensive policies (Europe 2020, 7th EAP), or specific targets 2050 long term visions and targets with a societal transition perspective

7the EAP: Living well within the limits of sustainable marine environment

Marine Knowledge Biodiversity Strategy Blue Growth

MSFD HD WFD CFP MSP

Our working context: marine policies

Specifically the MSFD

• Provides a streamlining of assessments across

Europe

– Now: State and pressures – Eventually for human activities and socio economic analysis

• Provides an overview of management

measures and monitoring programmes

• Still large geographical differences

Underpinning an ecosystem based approach

Recognising connections Multiple

• bjectives

Cumulative impacts Spatial approach

The ecosystem based approach is a central concept of MSFD, CFP and MSP

Marine assessments: Balancing use with limits of the planet

http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/state-of-europes-seas

Developing WISE-Marine

Principles of SEIS

Partnership with Regional Sea Conventions

Sharing data and information

Information products from research

Timelines

Activity 2017 2018 2019 2020 HELCOM HOLAS II OSPAR IA UNEP/MAP MSFD Art. 8 (MS) MSFD Art 20.3b (EC in coordination with EEA, RSCs, ICES, GFCM) SoER2020 (EEA) Other related products WFD assessment (EEA) Next HD Art. 17 reporting (MS)

Outline for art 8 assessments

State (art 8.1a) Pressures (art 8.1b) Human activities (art 8.1c )

• Seabed habitats
• Pelagic habitats
• Fish
• Turtles
• Mammals
• Seabirds and waterbirds
• Marine food webs and

ecosystems

• Physical loss and

damage to the seafloor, including hydrological changes

• Extraction of fish and

shellfish

• Introduction of non-

indigenous species

• Eutrophication
• Contamination
• Marine litter
• Underwater noise and
• ther forms of energy
• Land-based activities
• Extraction of living

resources

• Production of living

resources

• Extraction of non-living

resources and disposal

• f waste
• Transport and

shipbuilding

• T
• urism and recreation
• Man-made structures
• Energy production –
• ffshore renewables
• Energy production- oil

and gas

• Research and surveys
• Military

Socio-economic analysis

Art 20.3b State of the environment assessment

RSC and fisheries assessments & indicators Art 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 EEA indicators and SoES Outputs from research projects MSFD information base

EEA

EC

Holas II OSPAR IA UNEP/MAP Ecap Black Sea Regional fisheries

EEA is compiling an overview of the MSFD information base EEA will support EC in developing an EU SoE assessment Geographical perspective Building blocks of MSFD infobase

EEA is mapping regional and EU indicators

Annex III element Name of indicator MSFD descriptor (DPSIR) compon ents RSC/Or g in roof Report ? Regions covered Next publi- cation year Sectio n of SoES 2015 Birds B-3: Marine bird breeding success/failur e D1 - Biological diversity State OSPAR Yes regions I (partial), II, III, IV Dec 2015 Birds B-1: Marine bird abundance D1 - Biological diversity; D4 - Marine food webs State OSPAR Yes regions I (partial), II, III, IV Dec 2015 in Section 3.7 Birds Abundance of waterbirds in the breeding season D1 - Biological diversity; D4 - Marine food webs State HELCO M Yes NA tbc Birds Abundance of waterbirds in the wintering season D1 - Biological diversity; D4 - Marine food webs State HELCO M Yes NA tbc Birds White-tailed eagle productivity D1 - Biological diversity; D4 - Marine food webs; D8 - Contaminants State HELCO M Yes NA tbc

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Year Art 20.3b activities 2015  Develop overview of information base that can be expected from Regional Sea Convention (first complete

• verview expected end 2015) (1.6.1c)

 Agreement with MS and RSC on indicator structure to achieve same structure between RSC and EEA. (1.6.1c)  European streamlining of state, pressure and impacts through cross-cutting paper and launch associated GES assessment guidance. EEA analytical framework matches the European approach. (no task) 2016  Develop ideal assessment scope and storyline and

• utline (1.6.2a)

 Complete overview of technical content: indicator and assessment inventory and map to assessment outline (1.6.1c)  Identify information needs from art 8 assessment reporting (1.6.1c and 1.6.2a?)  Identify analytical needs (1.6.1g, 1.6.2a)  Develop presentation of MS assessment results (1.6.1a?)  Test and adjust assessment tools to MSFD guidance (1.6.1g)  Output early autumn 2016 draft ‘dummy’ report (1.6.2a)  Consult draft ‘dummy’ report with Eionet, MS, RSC and Commission (EEA)

Year Art 20.3b activities 2017  Adjust assessment scope and storyline, and outline based on consultation (1.6.2a)  Develop analysis (1.6.2a)  Update or complete technical content (inventory) (1.6.2a)  Develop assessment demonstration using assessment tools (1.6.1g)  Begin to write assessment contributions (1.6.2a)  Secure technical connection between art 8 reports and GES presentation in report to enable fast uptake of MS results.(1.6.1a?)  Consult draft report with Eionet, MS, RSC and Commission (EEA) 2018  Prepare almost final draft of assessment (1.6.2a) 2019  Update assessment with MS results as possible (1.6.1a)  Update and finalise assessment text (EEA)  Consult final draft report with Eionet, MS, RSC and Commission (spring 2019)  May-Nov: Finalise report (editing, graphics, etc) (EEA)  Publish report Nov 2019

Collaboration with RSC

• EEA is tasked to develop a European overview

– Would like to base assessments on GES assessments (GES achieved or not) – Would also like to base it on specific supporting indicators. – Identify topics (art 8) – Exchange of indicators

What we have done

• Agreed common indicator structure in WG-DIKE

– will be in MSCG next week

• Have a task to (among others) implement

Helcom spatial units into MSFD reporting

• Idea is not to develop an EU database but to

work as distributed as possible, while still achieving a coherent output.