Towards a Joint Monitoring Programme for the North Sea and Celtic Sea 3 Pilot Projects - New Knowledge for an integrated management of human activities in the sea PP/ENV D2/SEA Start date and end date: 01/10/2013 – 31/03/2015 Towards a Joint Monitoring Programme for the North Sea and Celtic Sea (JMP NS/CS) Project Coordinator: Dr Lisette Enserink, Rijkswaterstaat, NL Grant agreement number: 07.0335/2013/659567/SUB/C2 Baltic Sea Pilot Project: Testing new concepts for integrated environmental monitoring of the Baltic Sea Project Coordinator: Johanna Karhu, HELCOM Grant agreement number: 07.0335/2013/659519/SUB/C2 The IRIS-SES project: Integrated Regional monitoring Implementation Strategy in the South European Seas Project Coordinator: Dr Kalliopi Pagou, HCMR, Greece Grant agreement number: 07.0335/2013/659540/SUB/C2 PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

Participation of countries in the 3 projects PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Main Objectives: JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES Benefits & challenges of joint monitoring in North and Celtic Sea (potential for multi-use of platforms ships, planes, buoys) constructive network between institutions for fisheries and environmental monitoring planning and evaluation tools to enhance monitoring for GES Options for better integration and coherence across disciplines and countries, for increased efficiency and reduced costs. Transferability to other (sub) regions: North Sea  Celtic Sea and potentially beyond Testing new concepts for integrated environmental monitoring of the Baltic Sea to enhance the capacity of the Baltic Sea MSs, to develop their monitoring programmes. The project will increase and improve cross-border coordination and joint activities especially related to monitoring of biodiversity. Develop a new concept and decision-making tools for integrated environmental monitoring for MSFD and other environmental legislation, to support management of human activities and their effects in EU marine waters, in Mediterranean and Black Sea. This new concept will be based on existing sampling across various disciplines and scope the potential for joint programs. It will demonstrate a practical way in which current effort could be redeployed to more efficiently use of existing resources PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels ACTIVITIES / WPs JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES I: Inventory and analysis II: Integration III: Towards a Joint Monitoring Programme IV: Communication & Dissemination WP1: Coordination and cooperation for integrated monitoring WP2: Promoting resource-efficiency in national monitoring strategies WP3: Regional coordination of monitoring of marine mammals and seabirds WP4: Non-indigenous species-multi-disciplinary monitoring schemes to gain synergies for ballast water risk-management and environmental monitoring WP5: Tools for optimizing coordinated international use of research vessels for monitoring activities. WP6: A common standard for mapping and monitoring of Baltic Sea benthic biotopes and habitats, and format for data exchange 1: Analysis of the monitoring programs carried on the framework of European/Regional /National legislation in relation to MSFD requirements 2: Integrating scales of monitoring with those of processes to be monitored 3: Adaptation and development of intelligent tools 4: Optimization and adaptation to MSFD requirements of ongoing joint marine monitoring in the Mediterranean and Black Sea 5: Coordination and Management, Dissemination and Sustainability PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Activities carried out so far and their status, in relation to the expected first deliverables. JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES Part I: Ongoing. Inventory of inventories prepared. Questionnaire for additional info distributed, (some countries still have to deliver) Part II: Just started after preparatory phase. Questtionnaire on platforms under development. Case studies/topics selected (eutrophication, fisheries, benthos, multi-use of vessels) Part III: annotated Table of contents under construction Part IV: Through meetings, WEBEXES, During the first 5 months, the experts have been gathering and updating information on current monitoring for the Catalogue, as well as identifying gaps in monitoring Activity 1: Ongoing. Fact sheet for inventory distributed. Information collected (some countries still have to deliver), meta –data base is prepared. Assessment of legislation prepared. To be delivered for 1st progress report. To be updated later Activity 2: Ongoing. Preliminary assessment of the programs inventory to be submitted with progress report Activity 3. Ongoing. Preparatory phase concluded. Case studies/topics selected (eutrophication, fisheries pollutants, multi-use of vessels) for GIS and DECYDE tools Activity 4. Preparatory work ongoing Activity 5. Ongoing. Meetings, website. PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Deviations from workplan so far and/or updated workplan, if decided. JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES No yet Project managmenet plan almost ready No Task 1.3 has been moved to Activity 2 and merged with task 2.1 “Assessing the opportunities to develop multidisciplinary monitoring programs, according to the recommendations of the SC meeting and ABon 5th November in Athens PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Problems and proposed/taken solution JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES Part I: Issue of partially finished MSFD monitoring programmes. Decided to allow for a variety of pre-MSFD programmes and new programmes, due to pilot program deadlines. Not serious problems identified so far, critical point the first progress report PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Interconnection/networking with the scientific community and the stakeholders (so far and foreseen) JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES Close linkages with OSPAR, HELCOM and UNEP processes of developing common indicators, shared data handling and development of integrated monitoring programmes Builds on templates and guidelines from WG DIKE Inform policy makers (PCG, WG DIKE, WG GES and relevant groups in RSCs) Liaise with other networks and projects: HELCOM, ICES, BEF, OSPAR (ICG MSFD, COBAM, EUT), UNEP, EEA, JRC, BSC, MED-GIG, BENA, HELCOM MORE, CORESET II, ALIENS 3, MARMONI, PERSEUS, MISIS, EMBLAS/UNDP, COCONET, EIONET, ELNAIS, ELNET, EUROMEDLAG, LIFEWATCH, MAREFRAME, EU MED MS… Meetings SKYPE, e-mails between 3 sister pilot projects PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

Final stakeholder workshops: approx. March 2015 MEETINGS JMP NS/CS BALSAM IRIS-SES PCG meeting12-13/9/2013, Brussels Joint Kick off, 13/9/2013, Brussels Participation to BALSAM kick off OSPAR meetings An overview of the aims and progress of the three sister projects has been presented in the HOPE 2014 Conference. 24-25 April all partner meeting (Edinburgh) Kick-off meeting: 14-15 November 2013, HELCOM Secretariat Internal meetings within WPs attended and planned BALSAM presented to the Black Sea commission in a Baltic-to-Black meeting, November 2013 6-8 May back-to-back with MARMONI seminar (Tallinn) Black Sea Conference, 28-31/10/2013, Constanta Kick off, 1st SC & AB, 5 November 2013, Athens, AQUALIRES 2014 conference, 17-18/1/2014, Bucharest CORGEST meeting (UNEP). February 2014, Athens 2nd SC 5 March Athens Preparotory meeting for DECYDE 18 March 2014, Cyprus, planned Local stakeholders (April-June 2014), planned Final stakeholder workshops: approx. March 2015 PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

Lessons learnt & expectations Main drivers for joint monitoring: coherent assessment outcomes, geographical coverage and data flows. Cost-effective monitoring Eagerness to participate from partners, no-one dropped out so far. Understanding of potential benefits and willingness to make it work Important to use related initiatives and projects Need for flexibility and courage from all participants to continue after the projects end. Support from DG ENV on networks and dissemination of results much welcomed PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels Expected outputs from the three pilot projects: The three pilot projects will gather and update information on the current environmental monitoring in the three sea regions. The experts will also carry out analyses of how well current monitoring responds to the needs of the MSFD and communicate recommendations for integrated monitoring to decision-makers. This is aimed to assist Member States in their development of monitoring programmes for the MSFD PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Contact: JMP NS/CS: Lisette Enserink lisette.enserink@rws.nl BALSAM: Johanna Karhu johanna.karhu@helcom.fi IRIS-SES: Popi Pagou popi@ath.hcmr.gr PCG meeting, 10 March 2014, Brussels