Member State report / Art9 / 2018 / D9 / Germany / NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea
| Report type | Member State report to Commission |
| MSFD Article | Art. 9 Determination of GES (and Art. 17 updates) |
| Report due | 2018-10-15 |
| GES Descriptor | D9 Contaminants in seafood |
| Member State | Germany |
| Region/subregion | NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea |
| Reported by | Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit |
| Report date | 2020-02-17 |
| Report access | DE_ART9_GES.xml |
GES component |
D9
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D9C1
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Marine reporting units |
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Features |
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GES description |
Good environmental status for the descriptor 'contaminants in food' is achieved 'if the levels of certain contaminants in food do not exceed the maximum levels defined by the EU'
For the assessment of GES for D9, criterion D9C1 is used as set out in Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848.
Explanation: Germany does not update the general description of good environmental status (GES) from 2012 at descriptor level in this reporting exercise. Over the reporting period, Germany has worked with the North Seas countries in the framework of the EU's MSFD process and in OSPAR to develop methodological standards (indicators, evaluation procedures). Specific aspects of criteria and indicators that contribute to a quantitative assessment of good environmental status are reported in the reporting scheme Art. 8_GES. For the assessment of the criteria set out in Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848, the relevant assessments under other EU directives shall be taken into account under Article 8_GES, taking into account, as far as possible, the regional assessments that have been coordinated so far and, on a case-by-case basis, supplemented by national assessments.
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Determination date |
201810 |
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Update type |
Same as last reported determination |
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Justification for non-use of criterion |
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Justification for delay in setting EU/regional requirements |
Regional cooperation in the reporting period focused on the development of methodological standards for assessing the various pressure and condition aspects based on Commission Decision 2010/477/EU. In the regional or subregional cooperation, within the framework of OSPAR, it has mostly not been possible to agree threshold values for these indicators in order to make (quantitative) statements about the state of the affected loads or the ecosystem components. Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848 results in an explicit obligation for the EU member states to agree assessment elements, threshold values and integration rules within the framework of the EU MSFD CIS process and through regional or subregional cooperation. Germany is actively working with the states bordering the North Sea, within the framework of the current work programmes of the EU MSFD CIS process and the OSPAR bodies, to establish them, where a coordinated definition is still missing.
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