Member State report / Art9 / 2018 / D6 / Sweden / 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 | Sweden |
| Region/subregion | NE Atlantic: Greater North Sea |
| Reported by | Havs- och vattenmyndigheten |
| Report date | 2020-07-06 |
| Report access | msfd2018-ART9_GES_SE.xml |
GES component |
D6
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D6C1
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D6C2
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D6C3
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D6C4
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D6C5
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Marine reporting units |
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Features |
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GES description |
D6C3 Spatial extent of any habitat type adversely affected by physical disturbance, by altering its biotic and abiotic structure and its functions (eg by changes in species composition and species relative abundance, by the absence of particularly sensitive or delicate species or species that provides an important function, the size structure of the species). Physical disturbance of habitat types: Good environmental status: Method for quantitative assessment of this criterion is missing. D6C3 Spatial extent of each habitat type adversely affected by physical disturbance, through change in its biotic and abiotic structure and its functions (e.g. through changes in species composition and their relative abundance, absence of particularly sensitive or fragile species or species providing a key function, size structure of species). GES: Definition of GES at criteria level is not yet available.
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D6C5 Extent of adverse effects of human stress on the state of the habitat type, including alteration of its biotic and abiotic structure and functions (eg typical species composition and relative abundance of these species, absence of particularly sensitive or fragile species or species providing important function , the size structure of the species) does not exceed a certain proportion of the natural extent of the habitat type in the assessment area. Good environmental status: When 90% of the area for each habitat type meets the threshold values for relevant indicators.
D6C5 The extent of adverse effects from anthropogenic pressures on the condition of the habitat type, including alteration to its biotic and abiotic structure and its functions (e.g. its typical species composition and their relative abundance, absence of particularly sensitive or fragile species or species providing a key function, size structure of species), does not exceed a specified proportion of the natural extent of the habitat type in the assessment area. GES: When at least 90% of the area of each habitat type achieves the threshold values for the relevant indicators.
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Determination date |
201812 |
201812 |
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Update type |
Modified from reported determination |
Modified from reported determination |
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Justification for non-use of criterion |
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.
For this criterion, it is not relevant to have a definition of GES since the permanent changes to the seabed from different human activities shall be assessed to underpin the assessment under D6C4. In the assessment under article 8, an estimate of permanent changes is included. Concerning methods for estimation of permanent changes, we will follow and take active part in the work of TG Seafloor. |
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. For this criterion, it is not relevant to have a definition of GES since disturbance to the seabed from different human activities shall be assessed to underpin the assessment under D6C3. In the assessment under article 8, an estimate of disturbance is included. Concerning methods for estimation of physical disturbance, we will follow and take active part in the work of TG Seafloor. |
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Justification for delay in setting EU/regional requirements |
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.
For this criterion, we only have an indicator for the North Sea giving a qualitative assessment. We do not have a definition of GES at criteria level yet.
The reason is lack of enough and adequate information and knowledge on the benthic habitats. Sweden has an ongoing project on mapping the benthic habitats aiming att closing this knowledge gap. We are active in groups discussing this in Helcom, Ospar and ICES and we will be active in the TG Seafloor. |
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 on not have any indictors under this criterion.
The reason is lack of enough and adequate information and knowledge on the benthic habitats and that threshold values shall be established at union level. We will include thesholds when they are established at union level. We are active in groups discussing this in Helcom, Ospar and ICES and we will be active in, and look forward to, the work on this in CIS-MSDF. |
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.
Under this criterion, we have used proxies from other descriptors (D5) for the assessement, which includes assessments under Directive 2000/60/EC. In addition we have used assessment from the Directive 92/43/EEC, but the assessment is not complete in relation to the broad habitat types.
The reason is lack of enough and adequate information and knowledge on the benthic habitats and that threshold values shall be established at union level. We will include thesholds when they are established at union level. We are active in groups discussing this in Helcom, Ospar and ICES and we will be active in the work on this in CIS-MSFD. |