Member State report / Art9 / 2012 / D8 / 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 2012-10-15
GES Descriptor D8 Contaminants
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 2012-08-20
Report access ANSNL_MSFD9GES_20121011.xml
GES component
D8
8.1 Concentration of contaminants
8.1.1 Concentration of contaminants
8.2 Effects of contaminants
8.2.1 Level of pollution effects
8.2.2 Occurrence and impact of acute pollution
8.2.2 Occurrence and impact of acute pollution
Method used
ANS-NL-MS-1: The approach used by the Netherlands to determine GES is described in Annex 3 of the Common Understanding document (Approach 3). GES is described in a qualitative way. GES is considered a high level aspirational aim. Starting point is the wording of the descriptors in Annex 1 of the directive. Taking into account the characteristics of the marine environment in the Dutch part of the North Sea, the use of the sea, the main pressures and impacts it was decided for each descriptor whether it is necessary to change the description of GES. In the case of the descriptors 1, 3, 4, 5 , 6, 8 and 9 no adaptation was needed. In the case of descriptor 2 it is considered impossible to remove invasive species that are already present. The GES description is adapted accordingly. For descriptor 7 a slight adaptation of the wording was made to include the possibility of compensation in accordance with the BHD. For the descriptors 10 and 11 a description of GES that was agreed in OSPAR is used.
At the level of the environmental targets the achievement of GES is geared to the situation of the Dutch part of the North Sea, based on the criteria of the commission decision 2010/477.
Marine reporting units
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
  • Dutch part of the North Sea
Feature
  • AcutePollutionEvents
  • All birds
  • IntroNonSynthSubst
  • IntroRadioNuclides
  • IntroSynthComp
  • Litter [macro]
  • SeabedHabitatsAll
Criterion/indicator
D8
8.1
8.1.1
8.2
8.2.1
8.2.2
8.2.2
GES description
Concentrations of contaminants are at levels not giving rise to pollution effects
Threshold values
Threshold value unit
Proportion of area to achieve threshold value
Reference point type
Baseline
Assessment method
Development status