1. Marine Reporting Units (MRU’s) – status
Neil Holdsworth
October 01, 2018
18th meeting of WG DIKE, Brussels
Marine Reporting Units (MRU’s) – status

2. Status by Country, 31st August 2018
Reported Shapefiles
(August 2018)
Number of
MRUs
Belgium 4
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
209
Estonia
France
Finland 37
Germany
121
Greece
Ireland
Italy 54
Latvia 10
Lithuania
Malta
Netherlands 18
Poland 17
Portugal
Romania 4
Slovenia 3
Spain 5
Sweden
United Kingdom 52
Note: some countries have included WFD areas in their shapefile reporting, while others have excluded these

3. Status by Country, 31st August 2018

4. What MRUs are used for
GES determinations (article 9), GES assessments (article 8) and targets (article 10) are all associated to MRUs
MRUs have been defined as a priority dataset for INSPIRE, therefore a reference dataset needs to be produced at the European level:
Development of a Web Feature Service (WFS) [progress to be presented in TG DATA meeting, 3-4 December)
WISE-Marine MSFD Dashboards: visualisation of MSFD reporting data
Art 12 assessment: adequacy, consistency and coherence of MRUs used under articles 8, 9 and 10 reporting

5. WG DIKE is invited to:
Confirm the status of provision of shapefiles of MRUs