Member State report / Art11 / 2014 / D9 / Finland / Baltic Sea
| Report type | Member State report to Commission |
| MSFD Article | Art. 11 Monitoring programmes (and Art. 17 updates) |
| Report due | 2014-10-15 |
| GES Descriptor | D9 Contaminants in seafood |
| Member State | Finland |
| Region/subregion | Baltic Sea |
| Reported by | Reporter not found |
| Report date | Date not found |
| Report access |
| Monitoring programme | Monitoring programme name | MP_D9 |
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| Reference existing programme | BALFI-D09 |
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| Q4e - Programme ID | BALFI-D09 |
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| Q4f - Programme description | Monitoring of contaminants in seafood in Finland is made in co-operation with the monitoring of contaminants in environment (BALFI-D08-01 and -02) as the sampling of fish is made with the same effort. Other parts of the monitoring follow the relevant EU legislation and EFSA guidelines for seafood safety. |
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| Q5e - Natural variability |
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| Q5d - Adequacy for assessment of GES | Q5d - Adequate data | Y |
| Q5d - Established methods | Y |
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| Q5d - Adequate understanding of GES | Y |
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| Q5d - Adequate capacity | Y |
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| Q5f - Description of programme for GES assessment | The monitoring supports indicators which measure the distance to GES (GES-boundaries taken from Food Safety Legislation). The monitoring is sufficient to detect the natural variability. |
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| Q5g - Gap-filling date for GES assessment | By2014 |
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| Q5h - Plans to implement monitoring for GES assessment |
No immediate development needs.
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| Q6a -Relevant targets | Q6a - Environmental target | Target 35 |
| Q6a - Associated indicator | Target 35 |
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| Q6b - Adequacy for assessment of targets | Q6b_SuitableData | Y |
| Q6b_EstablishedMethods | Y |
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| Q6d_AdequateCapacity | Y |
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| Q6c - Target updating | Y |
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| Q6d - Description of programme for targets assessment | The progress towards the target will be monitored by a number of indicators (see Finnish Art. 10 report). |
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| Q6e - Gap-filling date for targets assessment | By2014 |
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| Q6f - Plans to implement monitoring for targets assessment | ||
| Q7a - Relevant activities |
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| Q7b - Description of monitoring of activities | Coastal point sources, riverine inputs and atmospheric deposition of contaminants is aggregated and analysed by HELCOM PLC - http://www.helcom.fi/helcom-at-work/projects/plc-5-5/ |
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| Q7c - Relevant measures | ||
| Q7e - Adequacy for assessment of measures | Q7d - Adequate data | |
| Q7d - Established methods | ||
| Q7d - Adequate understanding of GES | ||
| Q7d - Adequate capacity | ||
| Q7d - Addresses activities and pressures | ||
| Q7d - Addresses effectiveness of measures | ||
| Q7d - Description of monitoring for measures | ||
| Q7f - Gap-filling date for activities and measures | By2014 |
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| Q8a - Links to existing Monitoring Programmes |
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| Reference sub-programme | Sub-programme ID | BALFI-D09-1 |
| Sub-programme name | Contaminant levels - in species, including seafood |
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| Q4g - Sub-programmes | Sub-programme ID | BALFI-D09-1 |
| Sub-programme name | Contaminant levels - in species, including seafood |
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| Q4k - Monitoring purpose | StateImpact |
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| Q4l - Links of monitoring programmes of other Directives and Conventions | Essential information on this sub-programme is available in:
HELCOM Monitoring manual - Sub-programme: Contaminants in Biota describes the spatial scope of Finnish monitoring of contaminants in fish - http://www.helcom.fi/action-areas/monitoring-and-assessment/monitoring-manual/concentration-of-contaminants/contaminants-in-biota |
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| Q5c - Features | Q5c - Habitats | |
| Q5c - Species list |
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| Q5c - Physical/Chemical features | ||
| Q5c - Pressures | ||
| Q9a - Elements |
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| Q5a - GES criteria | Relevant GES criteria |
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| Q5b - GES indicators | Relevant GES indicators |
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| Q9b - Parameters monitored (state/impact) | Species distribution | |
| Species population size | ||
| Species population characteristics | ||
| Species impacts | ||
| Habitat distribution | ||
| Habitat extent | ||
| Habitat condition (physical-chemical) | ||
| Habitat condition (biological) | ||
| Habitat impacts | ||
| Q9b - Parameters monitored (pressures) | Pressure input | |
| Pressure output |
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| Q9b - Parameters monitored (activity) | Activity | |
| Q9b Parameters monitored (other) | Other | |
| Q41 Spatial scope | WFD_CW TerritorialWaters EEZ |
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| Q4j - Description of spatial scope | The HELCOM Monitoring manual - Sub-programme: Contaminants in Biota describes the spatial scope of Finnish monitoring of contaminants in fish - http://www.helcom.fi/action-areas/monitoring-and-assessment/monitoring-manual/concentration-of-contaminants/contaminants-in-biota |
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| Q4h - Temporal scope | Start date- End date | 1979-9999 |
| Q9h - Temporal resolution of sampling |
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| Q9c - Monitoring method | Sampling: see question 4l
Compounds are measured from herring and perch (muscle), except phycotoxins which are from flounder (liver) and phytoplankton.
In analytics we follow the following references:
European Commission 2010. Commission Recommendation of 17 March 2010 on the monitoring
of perfluoroalkylated substances in food (2010/161).
European Commission 2011. Commission Recommendation of 23 August 2011 on the reduction
of the presence of dioxins, furans and PCBs in feed and food (2011/516/EU).
European Commission 2012. Commission Regulation (EU) No 252/2012 of 21 March 2012 laying
down methods of sampling and analysis for the official control of levels of dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs
and non-dioxin-like PCBs in certain foodstuffs and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1883/2006.
WHO, 1996. Guidelines for drinking-water quality. Health Criteria and Other Supporting
Information, vol. 2, 2nd ed. World Health Organisation, Geneva.
World Health Organisation, 1999. Toxic cyanobacteria in Water. Chorus, I. and Bartram J (Eds).
W&FN Spon. London, 416 pp. |
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| Q9d - Description of alteration to method | ||
| Q9e - Quality assurance |
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| Q9f - Quality control | OtherQC |
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| Q9g - Spatial resolution of sampling | Q9g - Proportion of area covered % | 100 |
| Q9g - No. of samples | about 38 samples per year |
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| Q9i - Description of sample representivity | Herring samples consist of one sample per sub-basin and perch samples are monitored from 9 coastal areas. Phycotoxins are monitored from 12 stations. |
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| Q10a - Scale for aggregation of data |
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| Q10b - Other scale for aggregation of data | This sub-program is currently not fully coordinated within HELCOM. |
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| Q10c - Access to monitoring data | Q10c - Data type | ProcessedData DataProducts |
| Q10c - Data access mechanism | URLview |
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| Q10c - Data access rights | Open |
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| Q10c - INSPIRE standard | EnvMonitoringFacilities |
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| Q10c Date data are available | 2015-12 |
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| Q10c - Data update frequency | 6yearly |
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| Q10d - Description of data access | Access will be provided by
Finnish Food Safety Authority (EVIRA) - http://www.evira.fi |