ECOSTAT 1-2 October 2008 Intercalibration – status of ongoing work – Coastal/Transitional Presented by Wouter van de Bund Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability

ECOSTAT 1-2 October 2008 Coordination of the coastal work –Dave Jowett retired April 2008 –Still no general Coast coordinator –JRC has opened a ‘Detached National Expert’ position –Delays in recruitment –Will be clarified in the next few weeks

ECOSTAT 1-2 October 2008 Planned COAST meeting –Coast meeting planned late 2008 to discuss and plan the ongoing intercalibration work –Cyprus has offered to host the meeting in December –Planning of the meeting at the moment difficult because of the missing coordinator Propose to go ahead with meeting anyhow

ECOSTAT 1-2 October 2008 Coordination of the GIGs –Mediterranean: Gianna Casazza (IT) –Black Sea: Virginia Schroder (RO) –Baltic Sea: Henning Karup (DK) –NEA coordinator still missing

ECOSTAT 1-2 October 2008 Progress in the GIGs –GIG leads are asked to give a short update