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TMAP ad-hoc Group Hazardous Substances Hamburg 27April 2006

TMAP ad-hoc Group Hazardous Substances Hamburg 27April 2006. Introduction Harald Marencic Common Wadden Sea Secretariat. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation.

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TMAP ad-hoc Group Hazardous Substances Hamburg 27April 2006

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  1. TMAP ad-hoc Group Hazardous Substances Hamburg 27April 2006 Introduction Harald Marencic Common Wadden Sea Secretariat

  2. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation Since 1978, the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark have been cooperating to conserve and protect the Wadden Sea as a an ecological entity. Guiding principle “to achieve, as far as possible, a natural and sustainable ecosystem in which natural processes proceed in an undisturbed way”.

  3. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation Joint Declaration “to consult each other in order to coordinate their activities and measures to implement (international and EC) legal instruments with regard to the comprehensive protection of the Wadden Sea region as a whole including its fauna (marine, terrestrial and avian) and flora” Ministerial Declaration Schiermonnikoog 2005 “We agree ….that coordinated and consistent implementation of EC Directives is needed and should be one of the core elements of the Wadden Sea Cooperation …”.

  4. Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation Wadden Sea Plan (1997) • Common Management Framework • Trilateral Targets • Common Policy • Trilateral Projects and Actions

  5. Trilateral Wadden Sea Plan Targets: • Landscape and Culture • Water and Sediment • Salt Marshes • Tidal Area (tidal flats and subtidal gullies) • Beaches and Dunes • Estuaries • Offshore Zone • Birds • Marine Mammals Regulations on : • Agriculture • Fishery • Hunting • Dredging and dumping • Sand and clay extraction • Tourism • Shipping • Energy (wind, gas, oil) • others

  6. Wadden Sea Targets: Pollutants • natural micropollutants: background concentrations in water, sediment and indicators species Monitoring of heavy metals in: • sediment • biota: mussel, fish, bird eggs (Hg) PAH [not mandatory] • sediment • man - made substances: concentrations as resulting from zero-discharges. Monitoring of organochlorines [acc. JAMP] in: • sediment [not mandatory] • biota: mussel, fish, bird eggs TBT in water and sediment

  7. Trilateral Wadden Sea Monitoring Program Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program (TMAP) Aim of the TMAP • To provide a scientific assessment of the status of the entire Wadden Seaecosystem • To assess the status of implementation of the trilateral „Targets“ of the Wadden Sea Plan

  8. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program (TMAP) • Recommendations for • Monitoring and Research • Policy and Management Input to the Trilateral Governmental Conference on 3 November 2005

  9. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Riverine inputs

  10. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Temporal trends and spatial distribution

  11. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Temporal trends and spatial distribution Sediments 1984 - 2003

  12. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Temporal trends and spatial distribution Blue Mussels 1984 - 2003

  13. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Temporal trends and spatial distribution Flounder 1984 - 2003

  14. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances Temporal trends and spatial distribution Bird Eggs 1984 - 2003

  15. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances - Results • riverine inputs and concentrations of contaminants have been assessed for the period 1996 – 2002 and compared with the previous QSR 1999 (data up to 1995). • concentrations were more or less the same or continued to decrease at a moderate stage. • in some areas an increase was observed and for some substances the Target has not yet been met. • some substances (PCB, lindane, and TBT) still exceed the EAC in various sub-areas. • many newly developed xenobiotics including hormone disruptors have a wide occurrence in the Wadden Sea.

  16. Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2004 Chapter 4 Hazardous Substances - Recommendations • to continue to harmonize methods of analysis and standardization for sediment, fish and blue mussel to enable reliable comparisons at a geographical scale. • to include Nickel (priority substance in WFD and JAMP) in the TMAP common package • to include priority substance among the newly developed xenobiotics and hormone disruptors in connection with requirements of the WFD • to apply biological effects assessment techniques (bioassays, EDA, TIE)

  17. new Wadden Sea Quality Status Report 2009 Next Ministers Conference in spring 2010 • QSR 2009 • Update of 2004 QSR • Results of revised TMAP • Consolidated data basis • Tuning with WFD and OSPAR assessments • Time schedule • End 2006:Agreement on revised TMAP • 2007-08: Data compilation • 2009: Drafting QSR • Begin 2010: Publishing

  18. WFD- RBD Wadden Sea River Basin Districts (RBD) in the Wadden Sea (coastal and transitionalwaters, up to 1 sm) (inland areas and Helgoland not included) • Proposed EC Marine Strategy Directive (from 1 sm onwards) • to be included

  19. WFD Monitoring commitments • WFD (surveillance, operational, investigative) • CIS Guidance for Monitoring, 2002 • Chemical Monitoring Activity (CMA) (2006) • - monitoring design • - matrix selection • - frequencies • - sampling stations and parameters • - techniques / guidelines / quality assurance • (marine waters: OSPAR and ISO guidelines)

  20. OSPAR Monitoring commitments • JAMP Guidelines • CEMP – environmental monitoring • CAMP – atmospheric monitoring • EcoQO – Ecological Quality Objectives

  21. ObjectivesAd-hoc Group • To support the TMAP Revision process with regard to the implementation of monitoring for the Wadden Sea Plan Targets, Water Framework Directive, taking into account other relevant international conventions. • To enhance the comparability and consistency of Wadden Sea monitoring of hazardous substances based on the QSR experiences.

  22. Report to TMAG until June 2006 Tasks Ad-hoc Group • DATA COMPARABILITY: to assess and compare the methods applied in the national monitoring programs with the aim to enhance the comparability with regard to e.g. grain-size correction of concentrations in sediment, normalization of concentrations in biota (dry, wet, fat weight), • DATA QUALITY: to oversee the application of existing quality assurance procedures, e.g. with regard to sample handling and possible sample contamination, • DATABASE QUALITY to prepare proposals for a regular thorough trilateral screening of data sets filled into the TMAP Units and for an enhanced data input procedure in order to ensure that a comparable and consistent data set is available for trilateral assessment • MONITORING EFFECTIVITY: to review the current monitoring program especially with regard to the optimization of monitoring effort in relation to political needs (frequency, location, substances and time) together with an indication of costs and priorities. • MONITORING UPGRADE: to prepare proposals for monitoring of “new” hazardous substances in the Wadden Sea taking into account the OSPAR Hazardous Substances Strategy together with an indication of costs and priorities, • MONITORING EFFICIENCY: to review the need for an assessment of hazardous substances in different matrices (water, suspended matter, sediment, biota).

  23. Program Ad-hoc Group 1. Welcome and introduction (9:30) Joop Bakker (Chair) Welcome and introduction Harald Marencic: Trilateral Targets and chemical monitoring in WFD and OSPAR 2. Status and analysis: (10:30 – 12:30) Individual Presentations by NL, SH, Nds and DK And discussions 3. Proposal monitoring program: 13:30 – 15:30 - Monitoring strategy: “Why, what, where and when” - Tools: “How” - Data handling: common GIS database 4. Follow-Up (15.30 – 16:00) - Summary of Results, and organization of follow-up activities (CWSS) - Finalization of report to TMAG (summer 2006)

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