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The EEA marine and coastal work programme – what are we going to do in 2011?
Trine ChristiansenProject manager
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Workshop objective:
To discuss the future EEA marine and coastal assessments, data and indicator set in the light of the recent developments of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
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2010: Year for publication of EEA State of the Environment report
• Part A provides a long-term explorative, cross-cutting assessment of key global mega-trends
• Part B provides Europe-wide assessments of 12 environmental themes
• Part C provides country-level assessments of the environmental situation in individual countries
• A SOER 2010 Synthesis provides an assessment based on Parts A, B and C
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Nutrient enrichment, heavy metals and persistent organic contaminants continues to be a major problem in the coastal and marine environment in all Europe’s seas.
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Denmark (20)Estonia (5)
Finland (93)Germany (14)
Latvia (8)Lithuania (13)
Poland (16)Sweden (32)
Open sea (67)
Belgium (16)Denmark (13)
France (1)Germany (24)
Netherlands (20)Norway (8)
Sweden (10)Open sea (81)
United KingdomIreland (85)
Open sea (35)
Croatia (13)Greece (6)
Italy (2)Open sea (0)
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Denmark (20)Estonia (5)
Finland (93)Germany (15)
Latvia (8)Lithuania (13)
Poland (14)Sweden (35)
Open sea (67)
Belgium (21)Denmark (13)
France (1)Germany (24)
Netherlands (20)Norway (8)
Sweden (10)Open sea (81)
France (3)Ireland (85)
United KingdomOpen sea (35)
Croatia (13)Greece (6)
Italy (2)Open sea (0)
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Nutrient enrichment, heavy metals and persistent organic contaminants continues to be a major problem in the coastal and marine environment in all Europe’s seas.
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Unsustainable fishing occurs in all European Seas and is threatening the viability of European fish stocks.
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Climate change is causing sea surface temperatures and sea level to rise and they likely to rise further – and oceans are becoming more acidic
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Climate change is causing sea surface temperatures and sea level to rise and they likely to rise further – and oceans are becoming more acidic
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Designation of coastal and marine Natura 2000 sites has been slow. The conservation status of many coastal and marine habitats and species still needs to be assessed
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Reptiles (12)
Mammals (64)
Invertebrates (6)
Fish (39)
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Status of marine speciesMarine Natura 2000 sites
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Marine Protected Areas Marine Protected Areas (e.g. Natura2000)(e.g. Natura2000)
Marine Strategy Framework Directive for the Protection and Conservation of the
Marine Environment
EU Integrated Maritime Policy, incl. CFP
Water Framework Directive
Coastal area
New EU policy context: Ecosystem based management
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Cyclical approach of Marine Strategy Framework Directive
6 year cycle
To be repeated every 6 years
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Criteria for GES
• Published September 1, 2010 • 50+ new indicators for the marine
environment• No inter regional agreement on how to
report• Major activity to establish reporting
process for data from initial assessments
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DATA
ASSESSMENTS
Decision-makers / The public / NGO’s / ResearchersENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SERVICES for
INDICATORS
Distributing information & knowledge
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EuropeanMarine Observation Data
NETworkWise-Marine
Country data
Integrated Maritime Policy – Marine knowledge 2020 - has identified Marine Observations as a need
MSFD
Research data
Policy relevant data
Reference layers (maps)
Marine Core Service data
WG-Dike?
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The role of GMES – the Marine Core Service and in-situ data
• Marine core service provides near real time data on salinity, temperature and ocean currents for all EU seas
• Based on a combination of models, satellite and in-situ observations
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Looking quite far ahead:
• EEA expects to be tasked with producing a marine integrated assessment around 2015.
• Discussions and preparations are already starting.
• Partly the motivation for maritime Eionet workshop
Integrated Marine and maritime
assessment2015
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Major Reports in 2012:
2012 Water Assessment 2012 Coastal
Report2012
EurecaAssessment
Work programme will be structured around data, indicators,and sub-assessments needed for these outputs
All reports are expected to contribute to the European Environmental policy agenda
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• Baseline assessment of presssures state and trends (based on RBMPs)
• Wants to pursue putting the baseline into a wider context, but how depends on Commission Priorities and is likely to point back at ressource effeciency
2012 Water report:River Basin Mangement Plans published in 2010
• Legal interpretation of RBMPs
• Planning larger studies of content, but not yet known of what.
• Commission Priority is ’Water Blueprint’ but content is not yet known
ENV EEA
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2012 Coastal Report
• Update of 2006 coastal report: Changing faces of Europe’s Seas
• Contribution to ICZM process• Regional assessment (led by the land
group)• Focus on drivers of coastal change and
coastal vulnerability • Some overlap with 2012 Water Report is
expected
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2012 Eureca assessment
•EEA will publish a 2012 European Ecosystem Assessment (EURECA)
•Better expression of impacts on human health and socio-economics
•It has recently been decided to revise the structure of this report
21 Published by AAAS
B. S. Halpern et al., Science 319, 948 -952 (2008)
Fig. 1. Global map (A) of cumulative human impact across 20 ocean ecosystem types
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Workshop wrap-up
• Presentation of workshop conclusions• On-line evaluation:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6Y5VFV9