It was observed that the impacts on hydrographic features and the ecological effects on benthic organisms resulting from the breakwaters were similar across all areas. The hydrographic changes associated with the natural loss of seabed based on EIA’s results, indicates that the negative impacts of new structures are minimal and do not affect larger-scale marine ecosystems. The extent of the assessment area that could potentially experience hydrological alterations due to development, is 0.214 km2, which corresponds to the total area occupied by all constructions, with no buffer zone defined during the SEAs. This finding suggests that the total area impacted by all marine projects conducted from 2017 to 2022 is negligible, given that it corresponds to 0.00022% of the MRU. However, the long-term ecological impacts of hard coastal works are difficult to predict quantitatively in a specific area, due to the variability of ecological systems

Due to lack of information and the absence of set TVs on D7C1 the status of D7C2 remains unknown (see text report)

To be able to address D7C2, the broad habitat types must be known. Although habitat maps have been developed for the 0-250 m depth zone, sediments were not classified to the broad habitat types (e.g. coarse sediment, mixed sediment etc.). Therefore, at this point, Criterion D7C2 cannot be assessed.