1. Water Framework Directive
Directive 2000/60/EC
Intercalibration
for coastal waters
Wendy Bonne
JRC

2. Coastal waters
We are doing the same thing as in rivers and lakes but in complex environments !
(Mike Elliot, WISER meeting)
We need at least the same resources as put in rivers and lakes + coordination and efficient dissemination of IC requirements. We are on the weaker side 
There are many cases where we need to think of pragmatic solutions
BUT this should not lead us to avoid reporting the reality
IC = TEAMwork – difficulty: patchy effort not at the same time – some groups are relying too much on single super women/ men – not a reflection of MS effort ! Help proactively your lead!
Fair judgment of scientific state-of-art and realistic effort of Member States – for potential extended deadline + final result

3. * on a non-continuous basis
IC organization
GIG / BQE / IC
Groups
* on a non-continuous basis
MED
SEA IT
Anna Maria Cicero
Black Sea
RO Gabriel Chiriac
+ Ramona Bercea
Baltic Sea DK
Henning Karup
NEA UK
Peter Holmes
Phytoplankton
No lead (JRC) UK
Mike Best HR
Robert Precali
RO Laura Boicenco
BU Violeta Velikova ?
Macroalgae
No lead (JRC)
ES José A. Juanes + FR
Patrick Dion
blooming RO
Oana Dumitrescu
BU Dimitar Berov DK
Karsten Dahl* IT
Luisa Mangialajo RO
Oana Dumitrescu BU
Kristina Dencheva
Angiosperms
No lead (JRC)
PT João M. Neto seagrasses + BE Erika Van de Bergh + PT Isabel Cacador saltmarsh ES
Teresa Alcoverro DK
Dorte Krause-Jensen*
Macrobenthic
Invertebr.
No lead (JRC) DE
Torsten Berg RO
Camelia Dumitrache
BU Valentina Todorova ES
Fuensanta Salas ES
Angel Borja

4. Information provision
Baltic Sea
NEA
MED
Black Sea
Information provision
Green = clear reporting improvement in Milestone 3
Phytoplankton
No lead OK +
GIG meeting OK
detailed
No report OK
Macroalgae
No lead OK +
GIG meeting OK
detailed OK
detailed OK
Angiosperms
No lead OK +
GIG meeting OK
detailed OK
detailed OK
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
No lead
Only activity for TW OK +
GIG meeting OK
detailed OK

5. Member States’ participation
Baltic Sea
NEA
MED
Black Sea
Phytoplankton
No country taking lead
Problems
participation
GR, Malta missing
Major problems OK
Macroalgae
IT - GR struggling with revision, Malta missing
Problems
Absence LV
Activity FI, PL
Major problems FR
ES struggling with revision, Malta missing
Angiosperms
Problems
Absence LV
Activity FI, PL
Major problems FR
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
FR not active?, Malta missing
Problems
Activity DK, EE, PL, LV
Only activity for TW
Major problems

6. Review first phase results
Problem of activity in MS
Review of first phase results: not being constructive in a critical check of weaker 1st phase results - no activity = making yourself more vulnerable to the 2nd scientific review and validation workshop conclusions! e.g. regressions of few data points in technical report and considering it not necessary to add extra data points when MSs are added using the same method – acceptable?
Major difficulty: Contracts finished of 1st phase experts – but considering a constructive solution impossible is not helpful

7. MED SEA Baltic Sea NEA Black Sea
Assessment
method
availability
MED
SEA
7MS+HR
+GIB
Baltic Sea
8MS
NEA
10 MS + NO
Black Sea
2MS
Phytoplankton
Blooms/
Composition
Composition metric via biovolume under development
LAST ECOSTAT
FR proposal,
5 under development, no descriptions
Try-out of metrics for abundance/ composition
RO & BU: different combination of metrics
3 MS of 8 full method,
3 only 1 metric
LV no method!
Macroalgae
Intertidal 5 of 8MS + NO FR?
Subtidal 3 of 8 MS FR?
6 of 7 MS
no new methods
IT: CARLIT
MT ? - HR ?
RO: Under development
BU: method
Angiosperms
CW saltmarshes
2 of 4 MS UK, IR ?
Intertidal seagr.
4 of 7MS+NO FR?
Subtidal seagr.
DE, FR, NO, UK no description
5 MS of 7 have a metric, not FI, LV, LT no seagrasses?
5 of 7 MS
IT: PREI
GR, CY, MT ?
HR: POMI
RO: Under development
BU: method
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
4 of 8 MS
not finalized: DK, LV, LT, PL
6 of 7 MS,
FR ?
hard bottom abandoned !
All methods in COM DEC
All methods in COM DEC

8. Assessment methods Milestone 3: Method descriptions still lacking:
For Milestone 2: Homework of MS on method descriptions was generally satisfactorily - Huge improvement on method description !
Milestone 3: Method descriptions still lacking:
Baltic Sea GIG:
DK: phytoplankton, macroalgae-seagrasses, benthic invertebrate fauna
SE: macroalgae-seagrasses, benthic invertebrate fauna
LV: macroalgae-seagrasses
PL: benthic invertebrate fauna
NEA GIG
BE: phytoplankton
DE: phytoplankton, macroalgae-seagrasses, benthic invertebrate fauna
FR: macroalgae-seagrasses
PT: phytoplankton
MED Sea GIG
FR: benthic invertebrate fauna
SI: benthic invertebrate fauna
MT: phytoplankton, macroalgae-seagrasses, benthic invertebrate fauna
GR: phytoplankton
Black Sea GIG
BU: macroalgae-seagrasses, benthic invertebrate fauna

9. WFD compliance Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton Macroalgae
Documentation for chl a.
new metrics
Documentation in progress
Revision with new metrics
Documentation in progress, new metrics
Macroalgae
Documentation needed for lack of metric for more than 1 species
Documentation in progress
Documentation in progress
Documentation in progress
Angiosperms
No metric for FI, LV (Gulf of Riga), LT (coast)
Documentation in progress
Documentation in progress
Documentation in progress
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Documentation
EE biomass, DK boundaries, LV, LT, PL method
Documentation in progress
Agreement diversity issue !
Documentation in progress
Not started

10. Baltic Sea example: compliance checking normative definitions
Biological Quality Element
Taxo-nomic composi-tion
Abun-dance
(Cover)
Distur-bance sensitive taxa
Diver-sity
Frequen-cy and intensity of algal blooms
Biomass
Taxa indicative of pollu-tion
Boundary setting procedure: method tested against pressure
Phytoplankton
Only DE regional x
(x)
DE, FI ?
8MS,
Biovolumen
EE, LV, LT, SE
Macroalgae and Angiosperms
DK, DE, SE, PL, EE
DE, PL, EE
 DE: ELBO OK, BALCOSIS not, DK macroalgae cover
FI, LT: 1 species depth limit
FI, LT: 1 species, SE: # species depth limit
FI, EE, LT, PL
Lacking: SE, LV
Benthic invertebrate fauna DE
DE, DK, FI, LT, PL, SE
DE, DK, EE, FI, LT, PL, SE EE
FI, EE, LV, DE
EE Biomass
LT, Lacking: DK, SE, PL

11. Pressure- impact relationships
Baltic Sea
NEA
MED
Black Sea
Phytoplankton
Dose/response analysis eutrophication
+ new metrics
Starting for other metrics than chl a
Not clear for other metrics than chl a
Eutrophication to be tested
Macroalgae
Only DE metrics & DK macroalgal cover, other MS not tested
Main problems, some pressure information collected
EutrophicationGeneral degradation: tendency - problem
Eutrophication /general degradation
not tested
Angiosperms
Main problems, some pressure information collected
Documentation in progress
Eutrophication/general degradation
not tested
DE & DK
EE, LT, PL, SE not tested
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Hard substrate ?
Eutrophication/ general degrad
Check species sensitivity classification, pressure data problem
Organic enrichment, hazard. subst. / General degradation
Documentation in progress, also for diversity
Eutrophication/general degradation
not tested

12. Reference /benchmark Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton
Blooms/Composition
Only for biomass (total biovolume)
No progress on ref sites documentation
Risk assessment
No plans yet
Macroalgae
No plans yet, activity potential common metric
Based on biological community
in ref sites documentation
Planned in future
Planned in future
Angiosperms
No plans yet, activity potential common metric
Documenta-tion in progress
Planned in future
Planned in future
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Very restricted types
Based on biological communtity
No further action planned
No progress

13. Typology Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton Macroalgae
Current typology chl a, revision for smaller ranges of salinity for composition
Subdivision of Balearics considered, no formal GIG discussion
1 type,
none to be added
No revision planned
Refined typology, like macrobenthos+ some larger areas
Macroalgae
Redefinition of typology in progress
1 type,
none to be added
No subdivision
Angiosperms
Refined typology, like macrobenthos+ some larger areas
Redefinition of typology in progress
1 type,
none to be added
No subdivision
New refined proposal – some subtypes of larger areas
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Hard substrate ?
Subdivision like phytoplankton + hard bottom abandoned
1 type,
none to be added
No revision planned

14. Baltic Sea typology
Extra type

15. Common dataset development Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton
4 MS + HR biological, phy-sico-chemical + IT pressure data
GR missing
All MSs
All MSs
SE and FI lacking
Problems!
Macroalgae
Not clear yet, DE + EE sampling,
LV, PL lacking,
IC selection ongoing
Not clear yet for total MED
No progress
Starting up
Problems!
Angiosperms
Same dataset as 1st phase !
Starting up
Problems!
National datasets of 1st phase
IC guidance requirement!
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
DK, EE, LV, LT + DE biological so far
Only activity for TW
Problems!

16. Common metric Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton Macroalgae
Common composition assessment planned
Read-across metric searched for
No plans but needed? ?
Macroalgae
Total macroalgal cover, IC selection ongoing
BENTHOS
No plans but needed?
Planned in future
ICCM: lower limit type of meadows (shoot density?) – leaf surface area per shoot
Angiosperms
Seagrass depth limit, IC selection ongoing
Planned in future
No plans but needed?
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Only activity for TW
No common metric planned
No further action planned
No common metric

17. IC option Baltic Sea NEA MED Black Sea Phytoplankton Macroalgae
Option (1or) 2 for biovolume composition
Option 1/ Option 2 ?
Option 1 common Ref & BSP ?
NOT
Option 1!
Macroalgae
Not known yet, option 2 considered
Option 2 & 3 at some sites
Not known yet
NOT
Option 1!
Angiosperms
Not known yet, option 2 considered
NOT
Option 1!
Not known yet
Option 2
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Option 3b
Option 1: LT-LV
No further action planned
Option 3
Option 3

18. Meetings next? MED Sea Feb 2011 Black Sea Baltic Sea March 2011 NEA
Nov 2010
next?
Baltic Sea
March 2011
NEA
Nov 2010
Phytoplankton
Oct 2010
March 2011
June 2010
Oct 2010
Macroalgae
March 2011
Sept 2010
Febr 2011
Oct 2010
Angiosperms
March 2011
Sept 2010
Febr 2011
Oct 2010
Macrobenthic
Invertebrates
Oct 2010
March 2011
Nov 2010
Febr 2011

19. Progress in 6 months

20. Phytoplankton composition /blooms
COASTAL WATERS
BQE
Baltic Sea
North-East Atlantic
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Phytoplankton composition /blooms
Macroalgae and Angiosperms
Macrobenthic invertebrate fauna
Improvement 1st IC after finalization of the TW IC
Cooperation between Member States to do common boundary setting or Option 1
Time to assess data and for discussion
Cooperation between Member States to do common boundary setting or Option 1
Cooperation and monitoring
Macroalgae
Sea-grasses
Common metric clarifications !
Cooperation WISER
Cooperation and monitoring
Common metric clarifications !
Cooperation WISER
Revision 1st phase + 1 MS
Revision
Revision 1st phase with monitoring data added
3 of 8 types green, others yellow or red
Revision 1st phase
+ 2 additional MSs
Meeting ?