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Reporting to EEA Indicator and EQSD: need to harmonize?

Reporting to EEA Indicator and EQSD: need to harmonize?. Policy context. Achieve good ” ecological ” (WFD) or ” environmental ” (MSFD) status by the year 2015, and 2020, respectively. This includes chemical status.

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Reporting to EEA Indicator and EQSD: need to harmonize?

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  1. Reporting to EEA Indicator and EQSD: need to harmonize?

  2. Policy context Achieve good ”ecological” (WFD) or ”environmental” (MSFD) status by the year 2015, and 2020, respectively. This includes chemical status. • Water Framework Directive(WFD – 2000/60/EC), Dangerous substances directive (DSD – 76/464/EEC >> Ecological Quality Criteria Directive (EQSD - 2008/105/EC) by 2013) • Marine Strategy Frame Directive(MSFD – 2008/56/EC) • EQSD (2008/105/EC) • Relevant for WFD Annex X • 33 priority substances • Including 13 priority hazardous substances • 8 other substances (inter alia DDT) added • Environmental Quality Standards (cf. WFD Article 4, 11, and Annex V; time frame: 2015) • EU regulation on pollutants in foodstuffs

  3. Hazardous Substances • Precautionary principle basis • Choice of substance: • Main criteria: persistance, accumulation in biota and toxic characteristics (PBT, EU category I) • Other criteria: carcinogenic, mutagenic and risk to reproduction system (CMR, EU category II) • 33 Priority substances (or substance groups) (PS) includes 13 Priority Hazardous Substances (PHS), but PS and PHS have different legal implications • In addition there are 8 other substances (OP) up for review as PS or PHS by 2011 W.E.Smith

  4. PS Priority substances (33): progressive reduction of discharges, emissions and losses PHSPriority hazardous substances (13): cessation or phasing-out of discharges, emissions and losses, with the ultimate aim of achieving concentrations in the marineenvironment near background values for naturally occurring substances and close to zero for man-made synthetic substances by 2025 at the latest. (WFD Article 1) Both WFD and MSFD call for no further ”deterioration” of the environment PS og PHS TBT

  5. CSI040 – hazardous substances in marine organisms • Objective: to convey the levels and trends of hazardous substances found in European seas • Based on 7 substances: mercury, cadmium and lead and persistent organic contaminants hexachlorobenzene (HCB), Lindane (-HCH), PCB7 (sum of congeners: 28, 52, 101, 118, 138, 153 and 180, and DDT (where ppDDE is used as the indicator compound)) • Interpretation in relation to policy action • Improving indicator under consideration: more substances, other media, greater geographical cover.

  6. Some questions to member states: simple V

  7. Questions to Member States: In order to develop the indicator in the best way, we need to get a better idea on what countries are doing or planning to do with regard to monitoring hazardous substances in marine waters. We have prepared eight questions in this regard, pertaining mostly to how you will address the EQSD (2008/105/EC) and in particular the choice of medium, hazardous substance and possible development your own EQS. Would it be possible for you to respond to this questionnaire by November 30th, 2009

  8. And the eight questions are: • Which of the 7 CSI040 hazardous substances will you continue to monitor (Cd, Hg, Pb, HCB, -HCH, PCB, DDE) ? • Which of the EQSD (cf. 2008/105/EC) hazardous substances will you monitor? • Are there other hazardous substances that ought to be monitored? • Which hazardous substances will be removed from your monitoring programme? • Will you use seawater, sediment and/or biota to address EQSD? • If you opt for sediment and/or “prey tissue” (cf. EQSD Article 3 §2), which EQS will you apply? • How will you demonstrate that the alternative EQS you have used “offer at least the same level of protection as the EQS for water” (cf. Article 3 §2b and d). • If you choose biota, which “prey tissue” (cf. EQSD Article 3 §2a) will you use?

  9. Thank you for your attentionnog@niva.no

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