Member State report / Art8 / 2018 / D10 / Belgium / NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea
| Report type | Member State report to Commission |
| MSFD Article | Art. 8 Initial assessment (and Art. 17 updates) |
| Report due | 2018-10-15 |
| GES Descriptor | D10 Litter |
| Member State | Belgium |
| Region/subregion | NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea |
| Reported by | RBINS - Scientific Service MUMM |
| Report date | 2020-01-14 |
| Report access | ART8_GES_BE_20200110.xml |
Belgian Part of the North Sea (ANS-BE-MS-1)
GES component |
D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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D10
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Feature |
Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Litter in the environment
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Element |
Artificial polymer materials |
Artificial polymer materials |
Cloth/textile |
Glass/ceramics |
Metal |
Metal |
Paper/cardboard |
Processed/worked wood |
Processed/worked wood |
Rubber |
Rubber |
Undefined |
Undefined |
Undefined |
Element code |
ARTPOLY |
ARTPOLY |
TEXTILE |
GLASS |
METAL |
METAL |
PAPER |
WOOD |
WOOD |
RUBBER |
RUBBER |
UNDEF |
UNDEF |
UNDEF |
Element code source |
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Element 2 |
Medical; ElementCode: OSPAR ID 415
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Sanitary; ElementCode: OSPAR ID 414
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Element 2 code |
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Element 2 code source |
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Element source |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
EU |
OSPAR |
OSPAR |
Criterion |
D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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D10C1
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Parameter |
Amount on coastline
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Amount on seabed
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on seabed
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on seabed
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on seabed
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Amount on seabed
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Amount on coastline
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Amount on coastline
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Parameter other |
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Threshold value upper |
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Threshold value lower |
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Threshold qualitative |
Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Decreasing trend
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Threshold value source |
OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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OSPAR Convention
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Threshold value source other |
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Value achieved upper |
315.0 |
133.33 |
5.0 |
23.0 |
18.0 |
66.67 |
11.0 |
9.0 |
66.67 |
54.0 |
66.67 |
66.67 |
2.0 |
3.0 |
Value achieved lower |
20.0 |
66.67 |
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Value unit |
Other
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number of items per square kilometre
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Other
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Other
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Other
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number of items per square kilometre
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Other
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Other
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number of items per square kilometre
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Other
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number of items per square kilometre
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number of items per square kilometre
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Other
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Other
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Value unit other |
items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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items/100m
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Proportion threshold value |
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Proportion value achieved |
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Proportion threshold value unit |
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Trend |
Stable |
Unknown |
Stable |
Stable |
Stable |
Unknown |
Improving |
Stable |
Unknown |
Stable |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Stable |
Stable |
Parameter achieved |
No |
Unknown |
No |
No |
No |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No |
Unknown |
No |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No |
No |
Description parameter |
APM on beach
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APM on seafloor
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Textile on beach
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Glass on beach
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Metal on beach
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Metal on seafloor
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Paper on beach
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Wood on beach
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Wood on seafloor
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Rubber on beach
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Rubber on seafloor
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Undefined on seafloor
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Medicals on beach
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Sanitary on beach
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Related indicator |
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Criteria status |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Description criteria |
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Element status |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Not good |
Unknown |
Not good |
Not good |
Description element |
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Integration rule type parameter |
OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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OOAO
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Integration rule description parameter |
Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Based on AMO-C
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Integration rule type criteria |
Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
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Integration rule description criteria |
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GES extent threshold |
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GES extent achieved |
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GES extent unit |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
Proportion of litter categories in good status |
GES achieved |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
Description overall status |
The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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The amount of litter on the Belgian beaches does not decrease and the composition remains the same. Also at the level of the southern North Sea, no general trends were observed in the various places and plastic accounts for the vast majority of all waste. Based on the available data from BTS surveys on marine waste on the seabed in the BPNS, it cannot be deduced whether there is a rising or falling trend in the amount of waste on the seabed. The time series are still too limited for that and the variation in the data is too large. Also within the OSPAR area, the need for more sampling stations and longer time series is considered essential to be able to observe significant trends in waste data. OSPAR bases this on data collected within IBTS surveys.
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Assessments period |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
2011-2016 |
Related pressures |
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Related targets |
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OSPAR Southern NorthSea (L2.2.5)
GES component |
D10
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Feature |
Litter in the environment
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Element |
Artificial polymer materials |
Element code |
ARTPOLY |
Element code source |
Link to other vocabulary or code lists that may be relevant
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Element 2 |
Fulmarus glacialis
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Element 2 code |
137195
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Element 2 code source |
Species (D1) http://www.marinespecies.org/
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Element source |
EU |
Criterion |
D10C3
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Parameter |
AMO-B
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Parameter other |
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Threshold value upper |
0.1 |
Threshold value lower |
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Threshold qualitative |
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Threshold value source |
OSPAR Convention
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Threshold value source other |
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Value achieved upper |
0.32 |
Value achieved lower |
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Value unit |
Other
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Value unit other |
g
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Proportion threshold value |
90.0 |
Proportion value achieved |
58.0 |
Proportion threshold value unit |
% of samples achieving threshold value |
Trend |
Stable |
Parameter achieved |
No |
Description parameter |
Average mass of plastics ingested by fulmars. 58% fulmars in SE-North Sea in the period 2010-2014 had more than 0.1g plastics in their stomach. |
Related indicator |
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Criteria status |
Not good |
Description criteria |
On average, only 21.8 (range 1 - 97) birds were found along the Belgian coast per year, making a trend analysis or further comparison of Belgian data with data from the individual regions impossible. https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/downloads/msfd/assessments_2018/en/d10_assessments_2018_en.pdf
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Element status |
Not good |
Description element |
Northern fulmar
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Integration rule type parameter |
Not relevant
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Integration rule description parameter |
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Integration rule type criteria |
Not relevant
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Integration rule description criteria |
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GES extent threshold |
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GES extent achieved |
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GES extent unit |
Not relevant |
GES achieved |
GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported |
Description overall status |
In all the OSPAR regions investigated, including in the southeastern North Sea to which Belgium belongs, the percentage of fulmars with more than 0.1 g of plastic in their stomach is equal to or higher than 50%, and that percentage has been stable since at least 2004. The good environmental status is therefore far from in sight. In Belgium too few birds are found for a thorough national analysis, but here too 52% of the stomachs examined contained more than 0.1 g of plastic.
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Assessments period |
2011-2016 |
Related pressures |
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Related targets |
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