The Ministry of Environment and Food contributes to regional work regarding establishment of threshold values and determination of good environmental status, and works to ensure that the anthropogenic impacts on the food web are in accordance hereto.

The Ministry of Environment and Food contributes to regional knowledge and methodology development on marine food webs. (Operational target)

The Ministry of Environment and Food is tracking the development in the food web through monitoring the individual sub-elements of the web. (Operational target)

The need for additional marine protected areas or other initiatives in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea is assessed, and a similar assessment is subsequently carried out for the Danish Straits. (Operational target)

The northern Sound is designated as a marine protected area pursuant to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, and new licences to extract mineral resources are stopped. This will not result in any changes in relation to the existing fisheries regulation