MS/Art8/2018/D10/Estonia/Baltic Sea

Member State report / Art8 / 2018 / D10 / Estonia / Baltic 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	Estonia
Region/subregion	Baltic Sea
Reported by	Estonian Environment Agency
Report date	2020-04-06
Report access	ART8_GES_Merge_v3_04_2019.xml

Gulf of Finland Estonian Coastal waters (BAL-EE-GF-COASTAL)

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GES component	D10	D10	D10	D10
Feature	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment
Element	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Microlitter (all)
Element code	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	All_Microlitter
Element code source	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
Element 2
Element 2 code
Element 2 code source
Element source	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM
Criterion	D10C1	D10C1	D10C1	D10C2
Parameter	Other	Other	Other	Other
Parameter other	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Threshold value upper	1.0	5000.0	1000.0
Threshold value lower
Threshold qualitative
Threshold value source	Helsinki Convention	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Threshold value source other
Value achieved upper	7.7	12190.0	107.0	0.55
Value achieved lower
Value unit	ratio	number of items per square kilometre	number of items per square kilometre	number of items per square metre
Value unit other
Proportion threshold value
Proportion value achieved
Proportion threshold value unit
Trend	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Parameter achieved	No	No	Yes	Unknown
Description parameter				Reported value is average value from 2016 assessment which is considered as baseline year value.
Related indicator	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Criteria status	Not good	Not good	Not good	Unknown
Description criteria
Element status	Not good	Not good	Not good	Unknown
Description element
Integration rule type parameter	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI
Integration rule description parameter
Integration rule type criteria	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO
Integration rule description criteria
GES extent threshold
GES extent achieved
GES extent unit
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
Description overall status
Assessments period	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016
Related pressures	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment
Related targets	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26

Gulf of Riga Estonian Coastal waters (BAL-EE-GR-COASTAL)

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GES component	D10	D10	D10	D10
Feature	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment
Element	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Microlitter (all)
Element code	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	All_Microlitter
Element code source	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
Element 2
Element 2 code
Element 2 code source
Element source	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM
Criterion	D10C1	D10C1	D10C1	D10C2
Parameter	Other	Other	Other	Other
Parameter other	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Threshold value upper	1.0	5000.0	1000.0
Threshold value lower
Threshold qualitative
Threshold value source	Helsinki Convention	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Threshold value source other
Value achieved upper	8.0	4406.0
Value achieved lower
Value unit	ratio	Other	number of items per square kilometre	number of items per square metre
Value unit other		Number of items per 100 square metre
Proportion threshold value
Proportion value achieved
Proportion threshold value unit
Trend	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Not relevant
Parameter achieved	No	Yes	Yes	Not assessed
Description parameter
Related indicator	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Criteria status	Not good	Not good	Not good	Not assessed
Description criteria
Element status	Not good	Not good	Not good	Not assessed
Description element
Integration rule type parameter	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI
Integration rule description parameter
Integration rule type criteria	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO
Integration rule description criteria
GES extent threshold
GES extent achieved
GES extent unit
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
Description overall status
Assessments period	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016
Related pressures	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment
Related targets	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26

Northern Baltic Proper Estonian Coastal waters (BAL-EE-NBP-COASTAL)

Simplified table

GES component	D10	D10	D10	D10
Feature	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment	Litter in the environment
Element	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Macrolitter (all)	Microlitter (all)
Element code	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	FI_Macrolitter	All_Microlitter
Element code source	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined	Undefined
Element 2
Element 2 code
Element 2 code source
Element source	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM	HELCOM
Criterion	D10C1	D10C1	D10C1	D10C2
Parameter	Other	Other	Other	Other
Parameter other	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Threshold value upper	1.0	5000.0	1000.0
Threshold value lower
Threshold qualitative
Threshold value source	Helsinki Convention	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Threshold value source other
Value achieved upper	3.5	2293.0		0.94
Value achieved lower
Value unit	ratio	number of items per square kilometre	number of items per square kilometre	number of items per square metre
Value unit other
Proportion threshold value
Proportion value achieved
Proportion threshold value unit
Trend	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Parameter achieved	No	Yes	Yes	Unknown
Description parameter				Reported value is average value from 2016 assessment which is considered as baseline year value.
Related indicator	Contamination ratio of beach litter	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [areas affected by human activity]	Macrolitter on seafloor in coastal sea [natural areas]	Microlitter in the surface layer of the water column
Criteria status	Good	Good	Good	Unknown
Description criteria
Element status	Good	Good	Good	Unknown
Description element
Integration rule type parameter	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI	NHIE_NWEI
Integration rule description parameter
Integration rule type criteria	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO	OOAO
Integration rule description criteria
GES extent threshold
GES extent achieved
GES extent unit
GES achieved	GES achieved	GES achieved	GES achieved	GES achieved
Description overall status
Assessments period	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016	2011-2016
Related pressures	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment	Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) Litter in the environment
Related targets	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26	BALEE-T33 BALEE-T38 Target 26