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EEA marine assessments: Now and in the future

EEA marine assessments: Now and in the future. Aim. The overall aim of the Workshop is to all meet and learn from each other (we are mostly all NEW!!: EEA ‘marine’ staff, ETC, many NRCs) The overall aim of this presentation is to inform EIONET Marine/Coastal NRCs about:

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EEA marine assessments: Now and in the future

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  1. EEA marine assessments: Now and in the future

  2. Aim • The overall aim of the Workshop is to all meet and learn from each other (we are mostly all NEW!!: EEA ‘marine’ staff, ETC, many NRCs) • The overall aim of this presentation is to inform EIONET Marine/Coastal NRCs about: • Current limitations of EEA marine assessments • Improvements identified to EEA indicators (assessment ‘building blocks’) • Improvements identified to EEA marine assessments themselves • How do these improvements fit together? • The ‘marine component’ of the EEA 2010 ‘State of the Environment’ Report and beyond…

  3. General limitations of EEA marine assessments • Issues addressed  Not enough to provide a pan-European picture in terms of DPSIR and outlook • Data coverage  Not always pan-European depending on the issue (i.e. no equal representation of the 4 regional seas) • Integration  Poor link to land-based inputs and no overall picture of the situation (i.e. all the issues together) • Policy relevance and effectiveness  Do not reflect that the ecosystem-based approach is now part of EU policy

  4. Relevance of new EU marine policy framework (1/2) • Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation in transitional and coastal (TC) waters (part of many EEA ‘marine’ indicators)  Possibility of new ‘State of the Environment’ (SoE) dataflows and biological indicators (intercalibration) • Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) • Regional ‘initial assessments’ and determination of ‘good environmental status’ (2012) as well as Commission report (2016-2019) • European Marine Monitoring and Assessment (EMMA) Working Group started ‘indicator convergence process’ to arrive to a minimum, common set of pan-European marine indicators • Possibility of new, joint marine indicators and ‘SoE’ dataflows

  5. Relevance of new EU marine policy framework (2/2) • Maritime (MP) and Common Fisheries (CFP) policies • MP preparatory actions 2008-2009 should help identifying and accessing relevant data (e.g. via European Marine Observation and Data Network-EMODNET). Also promote sea bottom mapping at the European scale • The revised CFP Data Collection Regulation should help identifying and accessing relevant data. Associated ‘sustainability’ indicators should help assessments • Several CFP initiatives to reduce fisheries pressure on e.g. deep-sea; discards; and illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUUF)

  6. General approach to improve EEA marine assessments 1.Working on the ‘building blocks’ EEA indicators • Improving regular indicators mainly to extend the geographical coverage of data and temporal trend assessment (2007-2010/onwards) • Further developing non-regular indicators to make them regular (2008-2010/onwards) • Bringing in ‘new’ indicators (and data to support them) linked to policy implementation and technological developments (2008-2009 and from 2010) 2.Working on filling the ‘gaps’  For SoER2010 to start with • Even if indicators are improved and we have more, they will still not tell the whole story in the short-term • Thinking on how to bridge the ‘indicator-assessment’ gap (using e.g. research data, case studies) to go from e.g. measuring nutrients and chlorophyll to actually assess impacts from eutrophication (2008-2010) 3.Working on improving the assessment framework  Longer term • Looking at decline in ecosystem services and link to socio-economics (2010-2012-2015)

  7. Currently there are 14 EEA marine indicators on: • Eutrophication (2 Core Set Indicators-CSI) • Hazardous substances (1 candidate CSI) and oil pollution (2 ‘energy’ indicators) • Fisheries (2 CSI) and aquaculture (1 CSI) • Climate change impacts (3 from EEA Reports, not regular) • Biodiversity (2 under development linked to SEBI2010 process) • Bathing water quality (1 CSI)

  8. Better EEA marine indicators (1/2)Draft Indicator Scoping Report explains: • What are the main problems with current CSI on: • Eutrophication • Oil pollution • Fisheries and aquaculture • Bathing water quality in terms of data, trend assessment, purpose, methodology, presentation or link to policy. And how we plan to address them • How we think the specification of the candidate CSI on hazardous substances in marine organisms could be improved to make it a ‘real’ CSI (we have also provided full improved specification and summary) • How we think that biodiversity indicators on ‘Segrasses’ and ‘Marine Trophic Index’ could be developed to support the SEBI2010 process

  9. Better EEA marine indicators (2/2)Draft Indicator Scoping Report explains: • How we think that regular EEA indicators of ‘Sea surface temperature’ and ‘Sea level rise’(and others) based on operational oceanography products could be developed to help climate change impacts assessments. Also ocean colour in support of the chlorophyll CSI • How to make the most of new TC data from WFD implementation and develop biological indicators using the intercalibration results • How to develop new marine indicators following up from the process started by EMMA • More detail in separate document and presentation for Workshop

  10. Better and more data for EEA marine indicatorsDraft Indicator Scoping Report explains: • Which data sources are used by the indicators: • EIONET-Water (CSI on eutrophication and hazardous substances in marine organisms) • International data and indicators(from ICES, FAO, Eurostat, etc.) • Regional assessment products, including indicators (from Conventions, ICES and other international organisations) • Modelled data and research data and indicators(e.g. JRC, operational oceanography providers) • Where are the gaps in data coverage More detail on problems relating to EIONET-Water data in separate document and presentation for Workshop • How WFD implementation can fill some of the data gapsMore detail in separate document and presentations for Workshop

  11. From improved EEA marine indicators to improved marine assessments • Despite Indicator Scoping Report Still a ‘gap’ between what can be provided by EEA marine indicators and the information needed for integrated pan-European marine assessments • 2008 ETC/WTR to start developing ‘Assessment components’ for each of the assessment headlines for which the indicators make a contribution. Also ‘emerging issues’ • ‘Assessment components’ Supporting information, case studies and new instruments as needed to assess the broader issues with regards the assessment headlines and move towards closing the ‘gap’, e.g. supporting CSI032 & CSI034 with information on the wider impacts from fishing • Assessment components + Work put forward in the Indicator Scoping Report = Strengthened EEA marine assessments; starting with the 2010 ‘State of the Environment’ Report (SoER2010)

  12. EEA SoER2010: What’s planned? (1/2) • Process, Content, Form, Target, Timing, International context/dimension are all being re-considered!!! • Discussions ongoing inside EEA, with EIONET NFPs, Management Board, Scientific C’ttee, etc., including a questionnaire • Scope: 32 European countries and 7 West Balkans or? • EEA also has reporting commitments with: • EECCA ‘Environment for Europe”  Astana, 5th Assessment Report (Belgrade + 4) in 2011 • EU Horizon 2020 process for de-polluting the Mediterranean Sea, focus on Southern part and non-marine inputs +/- 2010 reporting needed • How to deal with these? (separate Reports v. extra parts of 1 Report) and When? (2010 or 2011) is still under discussion

  13. EEA SoER2010: What’s planned? (2/2) • Structure: Current thinking: 3 parts (at least) A – Integrated assessment (strategic, overall, long-term, outlooks) B – Indicator-based thematic & sectoral assessments C – Comparative country analyses (in 2005 based on CSI scorecard) • Marine???  Parts A (partially) and B (fully) at the moment A – For the Integrated assessment, Climate change Impacts & Adaptation and Biodiversity & Ecosystem services are the main focus. They both have ‚marine components‘ B – Marine indicator-based thematic (& sectoral= pressures on marine environment, e.g. transport, energy, agriculture) assessment C – Comparative country analyses: To be discussed as marine/fisheries CSI do not lend themselves to be used as part of a scorecard

  14. EEA marine assessments beyond SoER2010 (1/2) • Existing ‘concept’ for SoER2010 already demands more: • Economic analysis • Analysis of futures • Policy analysis • Attention paid to environment & human health issues This is poorin current EEA marine assessments • ‘Assessment component‘ work in 2008-2010 will go some way to address it Further work will be needed to integrated these elements in the assessment framework in a systematic way

  15. EEA marine assessments beyond SoER2010 (2/2) • WISE-Marine (2008-2010 development) Main ‘data accessibility’ and visualisation tool to improve our assessments. Concept currently being defined also in relation to other EEA and ‘external’ projects (e.g. SEIS) • 2012 • EEA 2012 Ecosystem assessment (EURECA initiative) marine component under consideration • More comprehensive regional assessments from Conventions under the MSFD ‘Initial assessment’. And well consolidated TC data from WFD implementation Could be used in a much improved report in 2015 coinciding with next SoER • 2016 MSFD monitoring programmes will have to be operational = More comprehensive marine dataflows available….

  16. Thanks for your attention! Questions for clarification?

  17. EEA 2012 Ecosystem assessment (1/2) EURECA initiative • To assess the state of ecosystems in Europe in 2010 and their possible development beyond 2010. This should include an assessment of the stocks, flows and value of selected ecosystem goods and services under different policy-relevant scenarios • Should have a ‘marine component’!! Up to 80% of (assessed) European commercial fish stocks could be overexploited according to the European Commission • A lot of CFP changes envisaged already to remedy this and make it more compatible with the MSFD overall  More needed & imple. • EURECA’s marine component policy target could be next CFP review (2012)

  18. EEA 2012 Ecosystem assessment (2/2) • Aim of EURECA’s marine component: • Pull together outcomes from key past and ongoing initiatives on and analyses of the CFP as well as current and future plans for its reform and improvement, and present them in a ‘marine ecosystem goods and services’ context • Look also at synergies with other policies such as the protection and conservation of marine areas enshrined in EU legislation • (1 + 2 =) Provide some of the evidence needed to support the further development and/or implementation of those fisheries management measures that could support sustainable use of marine goods and services, and maintenance of marine ecosystem integrity • Can this be done? Scoping study 2nd half 2008. If yes, project will deliver in 2011 and 2012

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