1. Summary and Action Points
Joint meeting
WG DIKE, GES, POMESA
27 April 2017

2. Comments on introductory chapters (sections 1 and 2)
Ensure ability to report according to old and new Commission Decision
COM / EEA to check inconsistencies in new Annex of Reporting Guidance
Assessment period is the last 6 years
Clarify use of proposed text-based report structure in Reporting Guidance
'Proportion' over which the thresholds needs to be achieved will be clarified in Reporting Guidance
GES Trends vs. observed trends – GES trends is to go into the text field of the schema
Call for section in Guidance explaining the transitional reporting phase of the MSFD (i.e. start of 2nd implementation cycle)

3. Features and elements (Section 3.2)
Clarify the use of the term ‘feature’ in the text
Consistency of lists – EUNIS list in different parts of the document

4. Reporting on Art. 8(1a, b) (updates of assessments of pressures and impacts and of ecosystem elements)
No changes

5. Reporting on Art. 8(1c) (economic and social analysis of uses of marine waters, costs of degradation)
Move link with measures from Art 8.1.c to Article 10 schema
Add ‘Other’ category in possible approaches to report
‘Cost of degradation’ reporting to be checked
Include NACE code in the reporting
Make dropdown menus more ‘intelligent’ (applicable to all schemas)

6. Reporting on Art. 10 (environmental targets)
Field for qualitative targets to be added
Link of targets reporting to existing measures to be optional

7. Use of WFD assessments for 2018 reporting
Different views: aggregation at the RBD level vs. Water Body types
Possibility to have:
the EEA prepare some worked examples for September 2017 meeting of WG DIKE and more discussion on this
Or decide to not implement the prefiling work
COM to reflect on the options and come back to the CIS groups (based also on the written comments on the proposal)

8. TIMELINES FOR MSFD 2018 REPORTING PREPARATION
Phase
Due-date
First proposal of schemas
Mar-17
Member States
Draft guidance document (v1)
DG ENV/EEA
Second proposal of schemas
Apr-17
Draft guidance document (v2)
Final schemas
May-17
Final guidance document (v3)
MS warine waters and subdivisions updates submitted to CDR
Aug-17
Draft MRUs layers
Sep-17
Validation of MRUs layers
Nov-17
Codelists and vocabularies
Webforms ready for a pre-test phase
Pre-test phase (Nov-Dec)
Dec-17
Final MRUs layers
Jan-18
Prefilling (2012 submissions, RSC & WFD information)
Webforms ready for a test phase
Feb-18
Test-phase (Feb-Apr)
Apr-18
Correction of errors/modification of the data-model and QA/QC
May-18
CDR help website updated
Jun-18
Reporting system (schemas, QA/QC, webforms) ready for reporting
Reporting start-date
Jul-18

9. Action points What Who When Written comments on Reporting Guidance
WG GES-DIKE-POMESA
8 May 2017
V3 of Reporting Guidance released
COM / EEA
31 May 2017
Written comments on WFD paper
19 May 2017
Written comments on marine reporting units paper
V4 of Reporting Guidance released
30 June 2017