EMODnet Chemistry 3
Kick-off Meeting
17-19 May 2017
Input from GESs TG
[email protected]
ISPRA
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
MSFD implementation
Next MSFD implementation steps:
 II cycle (2012-2018) assessment (art.8), update of Good Environmental Status
definition (art.9) and Environmental Target to reach GES (art.10). Due by July
2018
 Adoption of new revision of the Commission Decision on criteria and
methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and
specifications and standardised methods for monitoring and assessment
 Final goal: achieving GES by 2020
.
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
II cycle MSFD
WG GES inputs:
 Assessment for pressure, impact and state of marine environment (art.8), WG
GES working document:
• GES_17-2017-02 - Draft guidance for assessments under Article 8
of the MSFD
 Reporting on assessment (art.8), update of Good Environmental Status
definition (art.9) and Environmental Target to reach GES (art.10) WG GES &
DIKE working document:
• DIKE_15-2017-02rev - Reporting on the 2018 update of articles 8,
9 & 10 for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive version 2.1
• DIKE_15-2017-04 - MSFD marine reporting units
• DIKE_15-2017-07 - Bringing WFD assessments to MSFD reporting
 Adoption of new revision of the Commission Decision on GES :
• To be published soon: COMMISSION DECISION (EU) …/… of XXX
laying down criteria and methodological standards on good
environmental status of marine waters and specifications and
standardised methods for monitoring and assessment, and
repealing Decision 2010/477/EU
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
II cycle MSFD
Reporting II cycle main issues
 Up to Member States to use criteria from new or old Commission Decision in the
assessment, update of GES and Target, but:
• Coherence with GES and Targets adopted in 2012 should be assured
• Regional or subregional cooperation should be guaranteed
• Barcellona Convention EcAp process is based on old Commission Decision
• Monitoring programme established in the I cycle 2012-2018 are based on
the old Commission Decision
 New Commission Decision distinguish primary and secondary criteria:
• primary criteria should be used to ensure consistency across the
Union. If not used, Member States Member States shall provide a
justification.
• Use of a secondary criterion should be decided by Member States,
where necessary, to complement a primary criterion or when, for a
particular criterion, the marine environment is at risk of not achieving or
not maintaining good environmental status.
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
II cycle MSFD
Reporting II cycle main issues
 Assessment areas now renamed Marine Reporting Unit should be based on
common criteria assuring coherence with others directives like WFD:
• Main hydrological process chemico-physical characteristics should be taken
into account - linkages with EMODNet Chemistry (Oxygen, Chl-a,
nutrients,..) EMODNet Physics and Bathymetry, Copernicus)
• Main pressures and impacts included into the analysis (see EMODNet
Chemistry - eutrophication, contaminants, riverine inputs)
• WFD water bodies and River Basin Management Plans already establish a
scale of assessment
• Administrative management borders (for ex. regions, counties,
municipalities) shape programme of measures implementation
• Availability of data will also play a major role (EMODNet, Copernicus,
national monitoring programmes,…)
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II cycle MSFD
Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
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II cycle MSFD
Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
The revised Commission Decision indicates the following spatial scales for
assessment:
 Coastal waters: the water bodies as used under Directive 2000/60/EC. This will
facilitate the reuse of information from WFD;
 Beyond coastal waters, subdivisions of the region or subregion, divided where
needed by national boundaries. Salinity gradients may be considered when
determining the subdivisions.
Thresholds values:
 In coastal waters, the threshold values for most criteria are the values set in
accordance with the WFD. For criterion D5C3, Member States shall establish
threshold values through regional or subregional cooperation.
 Beyond coastal waters, Member States shall establish threshold values through
regional or subregional cooperation. The threshold values shall be consistent
with those for coastal waters under the WFD.
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
II cycle MSFD
WFD vs MSFD – Descriptor 5 on eutrophication
WFD Status Quality Element
(StatusQE_Enum)
QE1-1 – Phytoplankton
QE1-2-1 – Macroalgae
MSFD Criteria for D5 (draft revised Decision)
D5C2 – Chlorophyll a concentration (P)
D5C3 – Harmful algal blooms (S)
D5C6 – Opportunistic macroalgae of benthic habitats
(S)
D5C7 – Macrophyte communities of benthic habitats
(S)
QE1-2-2 – Angiosperms
D5C7 – Macrophyte communities of benthic habitats
(S)
QE1-3 – Benthic invertebrates
D5C8 – Macrofaunal communities of benthic habitats
(S)
QE3-1-1 – Transparency conditions
D5C4 – Photic limit (S)
QE3-1-3 – Oxygenation conditions
D5C5 – Dissolved oxygen concentration (P)
QE3-1-6-1 – Nitrogen conditions
D5C1 – Nutrient concentrations (P)
QE3-1-6-2 – Phosphorus Conditions
D5C1 – Nutrient concentrations (P)
(P) Primary criteria; (S) Secondary criteria
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II cycle MSFD
Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 8 on contaminants
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II cycle MSFD
Assessment for art. 8 – Descriptor 8 on contaminants
The revised Commission Decision indicates the following spatial scales for
assessment:
D8C1 – contaminants concentration and D8C2 – effects of contaminants on
species:
 Within coastal and territorial waters: as used under Directive 2000/60/EC. This
implies the use of WFD water bodies in coastal waters, and other polygons
if defined for territorial waters, and will facilitate the reuse of information from
WFD. Note that for good ecological status, WFD requires Member States to
define water bodies for assessment (i.e. assessment units) within 1 nm.
 Beyond territorial waters: subdivisions of the region or subregion, divided where
needed by national boundaries.
D8C3 – acute pollution events concentration: Region or subregion, divided where
needed by national boundaries.
D8C4 – acute pollution events effects : The same assessment scales and areas as
used for the species groups or benthic broad habitat types under Descriptors 1 and
6.
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D8 contaminants GES assessment threshold values
From new Revision of Commission Decision on GES:
Within coastal and territorial waters, the concentrations of contaminants do not
exceed the following threshold values:
(a) for contaminants set out under EQSD and River Basin Specific Pollutants, the
values set in accordance with Directive 2000/60/EC (i.e. EQSD thresholds);
(b) when contaminants under point (a) are measured in a matrix for which no value is
set under Directive 2000/60/EC, the concentration of those contaminants in that
matrix established by Member States through regional or subregional
cooperation;
Beyond territorial waters, the concentrations of contaminants do not exceed the
following threshold values:
(c) for contaminants selected under point (a) of criteria elements, the values as
applicable within coastal and territorial waters;
(d) for contaminants selected under point (b) of criteria elements, the concentrations
for a specified matrix pollution effects. Member States shall establish these
concentrations through regional or subregional cooperation.
EMODnet Chemistry 3 Kick-off meeting, 17-19 May 2017
II cycle MSFD
MSFD contaminants GES assessment vs EQSD threshold values
Contaminants
EQSD
RBSP
Additional
Matrix
No EQSD
EQSD
thresholds
MS thresholds
with regional
cooperation
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Thank You
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