MS/Art9/2018/D6/Netherlands/NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea

Report type	Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article	Art. 9 Determination of GES (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due	2018-10-15
GES Descriptor	D6 Sea-floor integrity/D1 Benthic habitats
Member State	Netherlands
Region/subregion	NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea
Reported by	Rijkswaterstaat Centre for Water management, Ministry of infrastructure and the environment
Report date	2019-04-15
Report access	XML_ART9_201904091515.xml

Simplified table

GES component	D6	D6C1	D6C2	D6C3	D6C3	D6C4	D6C5
Marine reporting units		ANS-NL-MS-1	L1.2	ANS-NL-MS-1	ANS-NL-MS-1	ANS-NL-MS-1	L2.2.5
Features		Physical loss of the seabed	Physical disturbance to seabed	Benthic broad habitats Other benthic habitats	Physical disturbance to seabed	Benthic broad habitats	Other benthic habitats
GES description		No significant loss of the natural seabed compared to the situation in 2012 resulting from human activities.	No increase in time of the physical disturbance of the entire sea bed of the whole North Sea and the NCP.	No increase in time of the physical disturbance of the habitats described under the MSFD.	Improvement in the quality of the assessed areas and habitats in the Dutch part of the North Sea (Benthic Indicator Species Index).	No significant loss due to human activities of the habitats described under the MSFD.	The diversity of benthos does not show a decreasing trend in the assessed areas (OSPAR- assessment value).
Determination date		201807	201807	201807	201807	201807	201807
Update type		New determination	New determination	New determination	New determination	New determination	New determination
Justification for non-use of criterion
Justification for delay in setting EU/regional requirements