Member State report / Art18 / 2018 / D11 / Estonia / Baltic Sea

Report type Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article Art. 18 Interim report on programme of measures
Report due 2018-10-15
GES Descriptor D11 Energy, incl. underwater noise
Member State Estonia
Region/subregion Baltic Sea
Reported by Estonian Environment Agency
Report date 2019-09-30
Report access msfd-ART18_1_EST_Final__30.09.2019.xml
Marine reporting units
Features
Measure code
BALEE-M016
Measure name
Developing a registry of impulsive sounds
Measure category (type)
2a
Progress in implementation
Implementation started
Measure withdrawn
No
Reason for withdrawal
Year of implementation (Temporal coverage - timeline for implementation)
2026
Delay
6
Reasons for delay
Data or information
Other obstacles (Obstacles to implementation)
No
Type of obstacle
Further information on obstacle (Description)
Data gaps and technical (it-)problems on collecting and reporting data and information to and from environmental permits databases. Lack of information on noise impacts to marine biota in order to improve legal acts. Regional and EU cooperation on establishment of D11 threshold values has been slower than expected.
Brief description of progress (measurement of effectiveness of measure)
Currently Estonia forwards the impulsive sound data to ICES Impulsive noise events registry and there is no need for additional national registry for Estonia. Recording the impulsive sound data for assessing the extent of the impact is included into the EIA process. According to EIA process for activities which are causing impulsive sound, modelling and recording the noise data have to be carried out. According to the Com Dec 2017/848/EC the GES determinations and threshold values should be elaborated on EU level. Technical expert groups on underwater noise are established, however no commonly agreed solutions and GES determinations and indicators haven’t been worked out yet neither at EU nor HELCOM level.