Member State report / Art18 / 2018 / D5 / 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 | D5 Eutrophication |
| 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 |
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| Features | ||||||
| Measure code | BALEE-M002 |
BALEE-M009 |
BALEE-M010 |
Not specified |
Not specified |
Not specified |
| Measure name |
Compiling regional aquaculture plans to manage environmental pressures
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Creating ready-to-use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as ship fuel |
Management of direct discharges of storm water to minimise the load of nutrients, contaminants and litter |
Measures related to communities without common sewerage system and storm water. |
Measures related to reducing diffuse source pollution. |
Measures related to reducing point source pollution. |
| Measure category (type) | 2a |
2a |
2a |
1b (related to WFD) |
1b (related to WFD) |
1b (related to WFD) |
| Progress in implementation | Implementation started |
Implementation started |
Implementation started |
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| Measure withdrawn | No |
No |
No |
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| Reason for withdrawal | ||||||
| Year of implementation (Temporal coverage - timeline for implementation) | 2026 |
2026 |
2022 |
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| Delay | 6 |
6 |
2 |
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| Reasons for delay | Mechanism for implementation - national |
Technical implementation |
Data or information |
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| Other obstacles (Obstacles to implementation) | Yes |
No |
Yes |
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| Type of obstacle | Data or information |
Technical implementation |
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| Further information on obstacle (Description) | There is a lack of mechanism for the implementation at the national level, e.g. the necessary regulation or other mechanism required for implementing the measure has not yet been adopted in full extent. Also data gaps are greater than originally envisaged, to the extent that the measure cannot be implemented as planned. |
Infrastructure for LNG supply is still under construction. |
Lack of information on illegal direct stormwater discharges and their loads to marine environment. Additional research activities are needed to assess the loads by stormwaters and their impact to marine environment, as well as to improve the legal framework on stormwater discharges. |
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| Brief description of progress (measurement of effectiveness of measure) | Project for compiling regional aquaculture plans to manage environmental pressures has started in 2018 and will end in December 2019. Further activities related to strategic environmental assessment and approval of the regional aquaculture plans are related to the process of maritime spatial planning and can be carried out after the maritime spatial plans are approved (envisaged in 2020). |
Currently there is one LNG ship (Tallink Megastar) operating between Estonia and Finland and the bunkering is carried out using truck-to-ship method. Estonian national company Elering is participating in the gas infrastructure development project Balticconnector. The European grants will cover the construction of the Balticconnector (EU support €187.5 million), the first gas pipeline linking Estonia to Finland. Once completed, the interconnector will strengthen the security of LNG supply in the Eastern Baltic Sea region. In addition, since 2018 Port of Tallinn has created tax incentives for ships which use mainly LNG as ship fuel. |
Activities related to mapping of the illegal storm water discharges, which are directed into the sea, have been currently carried out only in Tallinn, however there is a need to map all the illegal storm water direct discharges, because they carry nutrients, hazardous substances and litter into the sea. On the other hand, monitoring of the storm water quality in the discharges which have permits, is being done continuously.
The revision of projection norms and factors with the aspect of managing storm water discharges was carried out within the project ‘Analysis of the storm water floodings and development of combined storm water strategy in pilot area’.
There is a funding mechanism under Environmental Investment Centre for finding the most appropriate and economic way for managing storm water discharges and building the storm water infrastructure using ecologically friendly solutions. Infrastructures are constantly being developed and new infrastructures are being built, therefore we can consider this as continuous activity.
To improve the surveillance activities, new provisions are added to the new Public Water Supply and Sewerage Act, which will enter into force in October 2019. |