All Swedish determinations of GES are implemented in a regulation (HVMFS 2012:18) issued from the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. From the update made in 2018 only criteria supported with at least one indicator are included in the regulation. Furthermore, only indicators underpinned with a regular monitoring programme are included. We do not have indicators under this criterion yet, because it is not possible to establish a monitoring programme. Sweden will establish a monitoring programme for micro-litter as soon as method for monitoring of micro-litter is established internationally. Sweden will continue to take part in, and support development of, monitoring methods and studies on micro-litter with the aim to build knowledge. Another reason is that threshold values shall be established at union level. We will include these thresholds when they are established. We are active in groups discussing this in CIS-MSFD, as well as OSPAR & HELCOM.

All Swedish determinations of GES are implemented in a regulation (HVMFS 2012:18) issued from the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management. From the update made in 2018 only criteria supported with at least one indicator are included in the regulation. Furthermore, only indicators underpinned with a regular monitoring programme are included. We do not have any indicator under this criterion yet, depending on lack of enough and/or reliable monitoring data. Another reason is that threshold values shall be established at union level, and we will include thesholds when they are established at union level. We are active in groups discussing this in CIS-MSFD, Helcom and Ospar. In the article 8 assessment some results from monitoring of continuous sound are included.