1. Marine Reporting Units (MRU’s) – Progress?
Neil Holdsworth
February 14, 2018
17th meeting of WG DIKE, Brussels
Marine Reporting Units (MRU’s) – Progress?

2. Explanation of the types of reported information
4geo (XML files)
Shape files Assessment Areas and MW (.shp)
4geo (XML files)
Updated Shape Files (.shp)
MRU’s (Excel list)

3. Status by Country Country No Information 2017-2018 Before 2017
Current list of MRUs
GIS files from previous
reporting exercises
 Country
4geo.xml from previous reporting exercises
Feedback on list of MRU (Spreadsheet)
MRUs (from updated 4geo or shapefiles)
Assessment Areas
Marine Waters
Belgium
Bulgaria
Croatia*
Cyprus
Denmark
Estonia
France
Finland
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
Latvia
Lithuania
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
No Information
Before 2017

4. Issues Encoding of Marine Reporting Units
In 2012, only 87 MarineUnitID codes matched in both the shape file and the 4geo.xml (see Table 1).
MarineUnitID codes are long and include character spaces or special characters:
- “ANS_DK_without Kattegat_outside 12 nautical miles zone”
“L WADDENSEA”
BLK_BG_AA_Coastal Same As BLK-BG-AA-Coastal??
Total number of unique MarineUnitID codes in shp
333
Total number of MarineUnitID codes in 4geo
126
MarineUnitID codes matched in both 4geo and shp 87
shp MarineUnitsID codes without a 4geo
248
4geo MarineUnitsID codes without a shp 41
MarineUnitID codes being NULL in shp 3
MarineUnitID codes being NULL in 4geo 1

5. Action Needed for MRU’s: Countries to improve and/or fix the coding
Encoding of Marine Reporting Units
Action Needed for MRU’s:
Countries to improve and/or fix the coding
No mismatches among the 4geo and shape files
sensible codes (if possible, following proposed codes from EEA)

6. Do not provide shape files for:
Process for submission of GIS files
Do not provide shape files for:
Coastal water bodies and territorial waters reported under the WFD (already available in EEA’s website )
‘Coastal water bodies within RBD’ (the layer will be prepared by EEA/ETC)
Marine regions and subregions (already available in EEA’s website )
Subdivisions of regions or subregions: available for the HELCOM and OSPAR areas

7. Do provide shape files for:
Process for submission of GIS files
Do provide shape files for:
MS part of MSFD region/subregion/subdivision that will be used as MRUs
Other MRUs that are not included in the proposed list of MRUs
By end of June 2018
Where to upload:

8. Mediterranean marine reporting units 2nd workshop

9. WG DIKE is invited to: ‘Now’work and Homework for WGDIKE
Confirm the status of provision of lists of:
MRUs (spreadsheet)
4geo.xml files, and GIS shapefiles for MRUs
MS marine waters;
Where not yet provided, upload updated:
4geo.xml file and associated GIS files with the Marine Reporting Units (member state specific MRU’s)
include any updated GIS files for MS marine waters, by 31. June 2018.