1. Marine Reporting Obligations
at union level
Dr. Jochen Krause, Mirko Hauswirth, Kathrin Heinicke, Axel Kreutle
German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation,
Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division
Joint meeting on biodiversity assessment and reporting under MSFD and HBD

2. Marine Biodiversity EU Reporting Obligations Responsible administrative body in Germany
Nature · Biological Diversity · Species Protection
Birds
Directive
Habitats
Water Management, Resource Conservation
WSFD
MSFD
„terrestrial backround“
„aquatic backround“
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

3. German North and Baltic Sea
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

4. Competent Authorities in German North Seas and Baltic Seas Waters
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

5. Natura 2000 Birds Directive and Habitats Directive
Birds Directive (BD) since 1978
Reporting delivery Art. 12
Deadline
Habitats Directive (HD) since 1992
Reporting delivery Art. 17
Deadline
Specific protection of individual species and habitats, marine and terrestrial
 2 stand-alone directives!!!
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

6. MSFD Marine Strategy Framework Directive
Since 2008
Current Status report to be delivered
Before HD and BD reports
Goal: Good Environmental Status of european seas
Eco-system approach
All (marine) species and habitats?
-> Synergies to other EU-Directives: Habitats directive, Birds directive, WFD, …?
alle Arten und Lebensräume?
Zumindest alle Organismengruppen sowie alle Biotoptypen
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

7. Different Reference Areas „Terrestrial“
Habitats Directive:
Biogeographic regions
Differentiation between North- and Baltic Sea
Birds Directive:
National borders
No Differentiation between North- and Baltic Sea
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

8. MSFD Marine Strategy Framework Directive
MSFD: different marine regions
Nationaler Bewertungsworkshop
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

9. Birds Directive (BD) vs. MSFD
Birds Directive is used only descriptive in German MSFD Art report
Difficulties:
Scale
National borders (BD) vs. North and Baltic Sea (MSFD)
Threshold values
Trends (BD) vs. threshold values
Reporting deadline
2019 vs. 2018
Reporting period
-> Lack between assessment period and reporting period
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

10. Habitats Directive (HD) vs. MSFD
HD-assessment used for marine mammals, migrating fish and some theatened and declining maine habitats in German MSFD Art report
No difficulties with scales or threshold values!
Difficulties:
Reporting deadline
2019 vs. 2018
Reporting period
-> Lack between assessment period and reporting period
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

11. Marine Reporting Obligations
Submission of the Reports to the EU
Cut-off-date (only Habitats- and Birds-Directive)
Reports OSPAR IA 2017 und HELCOM HOLAS II (only MSFD)
Public consultation (national, only MSFD) and WFD)
Länder biogeographical expert meetings (national, only Habitats-D) / National voting (only Birds-D)
Last year of assessment period
Lack between assessment and reporting / management period
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

12. Summary Marine Reporting obligations increased in the last decade
Time periods for reporting obligation are not harmonised
That leads to several problems:
Communication:
Never stopping discussions on the status
Unexplainable data collection timeframes behind the status
Resources
Consultation processes
Capacities
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")

13. Recommendations
According of the horizontal reporting fitness check (point 5 EGR meeting)
Harmonisation of reporting delivery dates: current HDB reporting results to be integrated in MFSD reporting.
Harmonisation Monitoring timeframes and assessment schedules between HBD and MSFD. As a result, HBD-results should be provided directly for MSFD assessment.
Next possible time slot: after 2019 HBD reports
Dr. Jochen Krause (BfN, FG II 5.2 "Marine Protected Areas, Management & Monitoring Division")