1. EEA status for Marine Baseline Assessment 7th October 2013
Trine Christiansen, Constanca Belchior & Johnny Reker,
NSV4, EEA with support from ETC/ICM
Glad to have this meeting
Provide an opportunity to discuss and agree (for now) to the structure and planned process
I will
Provide an introduction to the MBA
Progress so far
Structure and content
Future process
Room for discussions and interuptions – joint effort

2. Marine Baseline assessment 2014
– Report outline
Report structure:
Introduction & structure
The diversity of European Seas
Healthy and biologically diverse Seas
Clean Seas?
Productive Seas
Humans and the marine ecosystems
European marine policies
Achievements, lessons learned & way forward
Analytical framework: social – ecological marine systems
Integrating policy initiatives and assessment frameworks: MSFD, DPSIR, MAES, BLUE GROWTH
2/15

3. People and marine ecosystems
The diversity of European Seas
European Seas
People and marine ecosystems
3/15

4. Issues to be solved – Gaps in reported information
29% of reported maritime boundaries under the MSFD appears to be coordinated.
71% of reported maritime boundaries appears not to be coordinated.
Large gap = 650 km2
Marine waters reported by, for example, EE, FI, LT, LV and SE, showing gaps in boundaries (large gap = 650 km2)
4/8

5. Environmental status: seabed habitats
Healthy Seas
Overview of reported information
Environmental status: seabed habitats
5/15

6. Clean Seas Many sources of information 6/15
Other sources e.g. EEA indiators
MSFD overview e.g. electronically reported information
Other sources e.g. art. 17 and RSCs
MSFD national reports
6/15

7. Productive Seas
– merging WG ESA and Blue Growth
7/15

8. MSFD European Marine Policies
– Sectoral policies covering elements of the ecosystem
MSFD
Eutrophication
MPAs
MSP
Fisheries
8/15

9. Summary
– Findings, challenges and process...
EU Marine Baseline Assessment based purely on IAs are challenged by:
Large amount of ”Unknowns” or ”Not assessed”
Evidence of lack of coordination between Member States
Differences between information reported electronically and through IA reports
Need for additional information sources to compile assessment
Process:
Member States will be asked though EIONET consultation to comment and provide the needed/correct information on figures and maps included in EEA Marine Baseline Assessment
Urgent need for an operational and pragmatic solution to depict/illustrate maritime boundaries between countries in order to enable provision of country level information (could be a hashed line in case of non-solved issues)
9/8

10. ETC/ICM data report close to publication
Where we are
– Findings, challenges and process...
ETC/ICM data report close to publication
ETC/ICM has provided a large number of contributions but they need further analysis.
Work continues
10/8

11. Timeline – Marine Baseline Assessment 11/15
Sep 30: deadline ETC data report
Oct: Draft marine messages briefing
Nov 1: ETC topic drafts
Nov-Feb: EEA & drafting group draft/edit text
Feb 1: 2014: first draft of report
Apr 1: second draft of report
Jun 1: final draft & consultation with ENV and JRC
Oct 1: Final layout and editing
Nov 2014: publication
11/15