1. Baltic Sea GIG Status Ecostat 23 April 2013By
Henning Karup
Danish Nature Agency

2. Baltic Sea typology BT1: PL-LT BT2: LV BT3: SE BC1 BC6 BC8 BC3
Extra type
BC9
BC5
BC4
BC2: lagoons DE-PL
BC7

3. Outstanding issues BC2 still to clarified
FI-SE
BC 3
FI-EE
BC 4
EE-LV
BC 5
LI-LV-PL
BC 6
SE-DK
BC 7
DE-PL
BC 8
DE-DK
BC 9
EE-FI-SE
Phytoplankton
Biomass
Taxa composition
Annex 2 _
Annex 1
Macroalge
Angiosperms NA
Benthic fauna
BC2 still to clarified
LV and SE transitional areas are not comparable.
LI and PL transitional areas still to be clarified.
SE to check comparability with LI and PL areas
Algae Blooms not possible

4. Meeting Gothenburg 5. December 2012
Participants: SE (host), DE, DK, FI, LI
Estonia had submitted written comments on the phytoplankton intercalibration.
Wendy Bonne was consulted by phone
Conclusions:
1 The intercalibration to be done on a type specific basis involving only the relevant specialist from the countries included in the type. Specific BQE leads will no longer be available.
The GIG lead will do an overall coordination including common GIG reporting to JRC and Ecostat. The reporting will be based on type reports produced by the involved countries.
The GIG lead will also prepare one or two meetings a year together with a host country.
In order to improve the knowledge on the different steps in the intercalibration process and the use of the statistical tools a two days workshop will be held in October Before the workshop all countries must have prepared there data and made sure that the preconditions and the IC feasibility check 1 is fulfilled

5. Work Plan
A draft workplan has been circulated to all GIG member states and will be discussed at the next GIG meeting on 24 May 2013 in Helsinki.

6. Thank You for your attention