Trine Christiansen March 19, 2013 A roadmap for art 19.3 Trine Christiansen March 19, 2013

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, PROCESSES & BIODIVERSITY Responses Policy implementation and adaptation Transport Deep sea shipping, ferries inland waterways, short sea shipping Food & biotech Fisheries (human), fisheries (animal), aquaculture, biotechnology, agriculture Energy & raw materials Oil & gas, off-shore wind, renewable energy, aggregates, mining, desalination Monitoring & surveillance Security of goods supply chains Illegal movement, environmental monitoring Living & tourism Coastal tourism, cruise tourism, yachting & marinas, recreational activities Coastal protection Flooding & erosion, salt water intrusion, habitats Infrastructure Working, living, infrastructure, waste DRIVERS Physical loss (D6) Physical damage (D6) Other physical disturbance D10; D11) Interference hydrological processes (D7) Hazardous substances (D8) Nutrient & organic enrichment (D5) Biological disturbance (D8, D2) PRESSURES ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS, PROCESSES & BIODIVERSITY Climate change STATE (D1; D4; D6; Art. 17) Habitats, phytoplankton, macroalgae, plants, zooplankton, invertebrates, fish, birds, mammals, reptiles Ecological processes Functional traits Biophysical structures Genetic diversity Biotic interactions Species richness IMPACTS ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Provisioning services Regulating & maintenance services Cultural services HUMAN WELL-BEING BENEFITS Recreation Existence of species Income Consumption Employment Coastal settlements VALUE Economic, health, social, other

EEA does not monitor – MS do! Scale: assessment of marine regions and subregions; Support common assessment approaches at regional scale; Allow up-scaling to European level; Enable data sharing with others: MS, RSC’s and EU.

with JRC, RSC’s, ICES, and TGs WG-DIKE and Art 19.3 with EEA WG-GES with JRC, RSC’s, ICES, and TGs High level objectives for GES definition (Art 3.5) D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 D10 D11 5.1 5.2 5.3 Criteria Indicators 5.2.1 5.2.2 5.2.3 5.3.4 e.g. Chl-a WG-DIKE and Art 19.3 with EEA Datasets Specification Data sharing mechanisms Application of INSPIRE Monitoring Common methods Monitoring programmes Reporting

Indicators and data products Data and observations Information flow Indicators and data products Data and observations Monitoring programme reporting Art 11 WISE-Marine Art 19.3 WISE-marine

Four long term objectives To have defined a prioritized list of data sets directly linked to all GES indicators, monitoring programmes, and future MSFD assessments; To have agreed the thematic content and format of each data set, according to the needs of MSFD for use in assessments, such that the data sets can be readily aggregated; To have established effective and efficient data management mechanisms at national and EU levels which allow ready access to the data for the EEA and the EC according to the requirements of MSFD Article 19(3); To have established public access to the data and data products via web portals, preferably via a single portal (WISE-Marine)

Important building blocks for art 19.3 Experience from existing data sharing mechanisms We already have a system of data exchange in place where MS report observations to ICES based on agreements made within Helcom and OSPAR Emodnet projects will develop data portals for observations needed for MSFD INSPIRE Mechanism for making data available in a standardized way and providing access to data European reference datasets European datasets developed in projects (e.g. Copernicus, Euseamaps)

Overview of responses to art 19.3 reporting options (yes = b ii) MS Willingness to use metadata reporting option CY No DE Yes DK ES FI FR LT NL PO SE UK

EEA maintains indicators: Example: Status and trends of nitrogen

Widening the scope of Quick win 2: A test case for reporting Based on existing data flows to EEA and RSC’s on chlorophyll-a, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen; What are the details of the existing data flows across Europe? – how do they work? What needs improvement to allow a more efficient mechanism; What can Emodnet projects do to support reporting of data? What can INSPIRE bring to reporting? Recommend how to best fulfil the data reporting obligation for these parameters.

Specific objectives Establish mechanisms to access and aggregate the data into subregional, regional or EU level datasets, as appropriate, including use of INSPIRE, EMODnet, mechanisms already in place with the Regional Sea Conventions and ICES, to support future indicator-based assessments; Where appropriate, establish periodic/regular updating mechanisms which support trend-based indicator assessments. Identify where existing data flows, e.g. for Regional Sea Conventions and ICES, are well established and provide common data sets with appropriate quality assurance processes, and set priorities for development of new data sets; Define the parameters and format of the data, based where possible on existing standards, e.g. SeaDataNet, and ensure they meet INSPIRE standards;

Proposal to have DIKE TG in early July   Potential topics on the agenda Session 1 Quick win 1: Metadata reporting – status and results Session 2 Quick win 2: Existing data flows on chl-a, nutrients and hazardous substances how do they work at present? roles and responsibilities of ICES, RSC’s and the Eionet? Session 3 Quick win 2: INSPIRE project (annex 1) Status and results Session 4 Quick win 2: Status of EMODnet chemical project and possibilities for collaboration

Thank you for listening! Trine.christiansen@eea.europa.eu