1. 6th meeting of TG DATA 12-13 February 2018, Brussels
Introduction and further development of the Recommendations for the publication of datasets under MSFD Article 19.3

2. Agenda_v2 Time Item Agenda item Presentation Monday 12 February 2018
1300 1
Opening of the meeting, adoption of the minutes of 5th meeting of TG DATA (9- 10 November 2017) and adoption of the agenda
EEA & France
1310 2
Update on Common Implementation Strategy activities of relevance to TG DATA: Marine Directors meeting (4-5 December 2017)
DG ENV
1320 3
Draft “Recommendations for the publication of datasets under MSFD Article 19.3” (DATA_ ):
Feedback from countries on v1 and updates performed
Key messages: Actions listed
Revision of sections 2, 3 and 5 of the Recommendations
EEA/DG ENV
1500
Coffee break
1530
Revision of the governance section (incl. legal aspects of implementing INSPIRE)
1730
End of the first day
Tuesday 13 February 2018
0900
Hands-on:
Possible representation types and how to decide which INSPIRE theme to use for our datasets: elements to be taken into account, criteria, pros & cons
Use of Sea Regions: example on Marine Litter
JRC
1030
Coffee
1100
(continuation):
Example of nutrients: use of OF vs use of EF&OM
Use of Grids: example on Species distribution
MEDCIS
Bilbomática
1230
Lunch break
1330
Use and extension of vocabularies in INSPIRE
JRC & France
1400
Download services: which ones to be used
1430
Further development of the recommendations: Open discussion
All 4
Update on WISE-Marine: phase II
EEA/ETC
1600 5
AOB or questions
1630 6
Wrap-up, messages for DIKE WG and steps forward
EEA/France/ENV
1700
Close of the meeting
Agenda_v2

3. 5th meeting of TG DATA: Outcomes and actions
Action/Responsible
Description
Timing
1: EEA/FR/EC
Draft 19.3 recommendations document to be reviewed in order to simplify, clarify and add additional information i.e. spatial grids, network services, use of vocabularies
30 January, 2018
2: TG DATA
Feedback to 19.3 document, especially on Table 1 content
15 December, 2017
3: TG DATA
Establish contact with national contact point on INSPIRE to clarify national process (publication of metadata, link to national INSPIRE discovery service)
As soon as possible
4: EEA/FR/EC
Check on compliance with INSPIRE obligations when MS rely on supranational organisations (i.e. RSC’s) and built into recommendations document
5: EEA/FR/EC
Development of examples of ‘end-to-end’ datasets according to INSPIRE data models, including metadata and services, as well as harmonisation
6: EEA/FR/EC
Send a request to EU MS representatives not present in TG DATA for them to share their current status in the publication of datasets according to 19(3)
30 November, 2017
7: TG DATA
Check with their appropriate colleagues and report back if there is a demand for a technical workshop on INSPIRE related to MSFD
(few feedback)
(few feedback)
(few feedback)

4. Development status and calendar
First (draft) version presented at TG DATA meeting 2nd week of November
First (draft) version open for comments from TG DATA members till the end of November
Second (draft) version presented at 5th meeting of TG DATA (12-13 February)
Second (draft) version open for comments from TG DATA members until 9 March
Third (final) version made available on CIRCABC by the first week of April
Third (final) version presented to MSCG for approval by the end of April

5. Revision of the Recommendations
General:
Simplification of text and figures (technical details have been brought to an Annexes)
New Section at the beginning: Key messages and structure of these recommendations
Re-organisation of the Sections
The publication of non-spatial data has also to be addressed
Section-related:
Section 3 (scope): it refers to the publication of ALL datasets, but highlighting some examples
Table 1: some corrections made according to feedback received
Section 2 (Use of the data): different approach
Section 4 (INSPIRE): it has been very reduced and simplified
Section 5.2 (network services): clarified and better explained
Section 6: preliminary evaluation on how INSPIRE compliant the datasets published by the organisations listed are
Section 6: delegation of the data provision to supra-national organisations has been clarified

6. KEY MESSAGES
Screen the national information to be submitted under Article 8 reporting and decide which data from the updated assessments will be made publicly available.
Liaise with the INSPIRE National Contact Point to coordinate the preparation, possible transformation and publication of the MSFD datasets and related metadata.
Create metadata of the corresponding the MSFD datasets following ISO standards and relevant INSPIRE Technical Guidelines, making sure that the metadata are made available through the INSPIRE National Discovery Service.
Create INSPIRE download services providing access to the MSFD related datasets.
Assess the INSPIRE data specifications that could be used for modelling each dataset.
Note that the publication of the datasets could be delegated to third parties such as supra- national organisations, although it is recommended to clearly document such an arrangement, as well as communicate it formally to the services of the European Commission.

7. Expected use of data Citizens European institutions
European Commission
European Environment Agency
National authorities

8. Scope - Which datasets have to be published
INSPIRE themes that are covered by these datasets are the following: Sea Regions (SR), Oceanographical geographical Features (OF), Species Distribution (SD) and Habitats and Biotopes (HB).
More than one INSPIRE theme is proposed for certain datasets: decision on which to use depends on the spatial object types
In the case of publication of datasets in a gridded format, the use of EEA reference grids or any other compatible grid are preferred.
Datasets underlying some of the criteria that cannot be defined at the spatial level, and therefore have not been included in Table 1: D2C1, criteria under D3, D9C1 or criteria under D1 (except D1C4). The spatial representation of others included in Table 1 is been noted as unlikely.
The Recommendations don’t include any particular data modelling for non-spatial datasets

9. Scope – proposed list of MSFD priority datasets
Criterion
Datasets underlying the indicator assessments
Criteria elements
Possible spatial representation type
INSPIRE theme**
Publication by other organisations***
D5C1
Nutrients concentrations in water
DIN, TN, DIP, TP
Point OR Grid OF
RSCs - ICES / EEA / EMODnet / CMEMS
D5C2
Chlorophyll a concentration
Chlorophyll a
D5C5
Concentration of dissolved oxygen
Dissolved oxygen
D6C1
Spatial extent of loss of seabed
Grid or Polygon
SR or OF
D6C2
Spatial extent of physical disturbances to seabed
OSPAR, HELCOM+, EU
D6C3
Distribution of habitat adversely altered by physical disturbance
Habitats assessed HB
D8C1
Contaminants concentrations in water, sediment or biota
Contaminants assessed
RSCs - ICES / EEA / EMODnet
D8C3
Spatial extent of pollution events
Polygon OR Grid
RSCs++ / EMODnet
D10C1
Macro-litter in coastline, water column and seabed
Corresponding litter categories
Point OR Polyline
RSCs+++ / EMODnet / ICES
D10C2
Micro-litter in coastline, water column and seabed
RSCs+++ / EMODnet/ ICES
D11C1
Distribution of impulsive noise events per year
RSCs+++ - ICES
D11C2
Distribution of continuous low-frequency sound level
RSCs+++
D1C1
By-catch distribution
Species assessed SD
RSCs (HELCOM) +++
D1C4
Species distribution
RSCs++++ / EMODnet
D1C6
Habitat distribution
RSCs+++ / EMODnet
D6C4
Distribution of habitat loss
D6C5
Distribution of habitat adversely altered

10. Publication of datasets and metadata
Generation: INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules Technical Guidelines
INSPIRE geoportal: editor and validator
Publication: through Discovery services
Some examples provided in Annex II
Network services (the focus is on ensuring that the metadata are discoverable through discovery services, and in particular through the Member State’s INSPIRE national node, as well as to implement download services for the datasets to be made available (in any case, the data should also be available through view services).
Discovery services: the metadata created have to be made available through the INSPIRE national discovery services which content is then made available through the INSPIRE Geoportal (important to liaise with the INSPIRE national contacts!)
Download services:
Type of download services included
Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE Download Services
Some examples provided in Annex III

11. Interoperability
Data specifications for the selected themes (Table 1) included in Annex IV
Some modelling examples provided in Annex V:
Marine litter using Sea Regions
Species distribution using EEA grid
Nutrients concentrations using EF, O&M and OF
Sub-section on Vocabularies/thesauruses
Sub-section on Grids