Member State report / Art10 / 2018 / D5 / Black Sea

Report type Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article Art. 10 Environmental targets (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due 2018-10-15
GES Descriptor D5 Eutrophication
Region/subregion Black Sea
Reported by Member state
Member state
Bulgaria
Romania
Member state report
Reporting area(s) MRUs used
  • BLK-BG-AA-EmineMaslennos
  • BLK-BG-AA-GalataEmine
  • BLK-BG-AA-KaliakraGalata
  • BLK-BG-AA-MaslennosRezovo
  • BLK-BG-AA-OpenSea
  • BLK-BG-AA-Shelf
  • BLK-BG-AA-SivriburunKaliakra
  • BLK_RO_RG_CT
  • BLK_RO_RG_MT01
  • BLK_RO_RG_TT03
Features Structure, functions and processes of marine ecosystems: Habitats
  • Infralittoral coarse sediment (10)
  • Infralittoral mixed sediment (10)
  • Infralittoral sand (10)
  • Pelagic broad habitats (19)
Features Structure, functions and processes of marine ecosystems: Ecosystems, including food webs
  • Dissolved oxygen (1)
  • Nutrients (N, P) (10)
  • Transparency (2)
Features Pressure levels and impacts in marine environment: Chemical
  • Eutrophication (11)
GES components
  • D5C1 Nutrient concentrations (5.1, 5.1.1) (7)
  • D5C3 Harmful algal blooms (5.2.4) (7)
  • D5C4 Photic limit (5.2.2) (2)
  • D5C5 Dissolved oxygen concentration (5.3.2) (5)
  • D5C6 Opportunistic macroalgae of benthic habitats (5.2.3) (2)
  • D5C7 Macrophyte communities of benthic habitats (5.3.1) (6)
  • D5C1 Nutrient concentrations (5.1, 5.1.1) (10)
  • D5C2 Chlorophyll-a concentration (5.2.1) (4)
  • D5C3 Harmful algal blooms (5.2.4) (6)
  • D5C4 Photic limit (5.2.2) (2)
  • D5C5 Dissolved oxygen concentration (5.3.2) (1)
  • D5C6 Opportunistic macroalgae of benthic habitats (5.2.3) (1)
Target Number defined
8
6
Target code/description
T_BLK-BG-D5C5_OS: 90% of the area are above the threshold
T_BLK-BG-D5C1_Nutrients: 90% of the area are below the threshold
T_BLK_BG_D5C4_Seagrass: The annual average transparency of the coastal waters is equal to or more than 6 meters.
T_BLK_BG_D5C6_Seagrass: The proportion of the wet biomass of the tolerant (opportunistic) species (ecological status group (ESG) II) should be less than 40 % of the total wet macrophyte biomass (Dencheva and Doncheva, 2014) within the seagrass habitat.
T_BLK-BG-D5C3_NsB%: Noctiluca scintillans biomass should not be above the threshold of 90% of assessed area.
T_BLK_BG_D5C7_Seagrass_ZnoPI: The EQR of the Zostera noltei pollution index (ZnoPI) (Karamfilov et al., 2019) value should be equal to or more than 0.775 at around 3 m depth.
T_BLK_BG_D5C7_Seagrass_EI: The ecological index (EI) (Dencheva and Doncheva, 2014) value should be equal to or more than 6 within the seagrass habitat extent.
T_BLK_BG_D5C7_Seagrass_ESGI: The proportion of the wet biomass of the sensitive species (ESG I) (Dencheva and Doncheva, 2014) should be equal to or more than 60 % of the total macrophyte wet biomass within the macrophyte habitat.
5.1: DIP and DIN to be maintained or decreased
5.5: Percentile 90 of borttom oxygen saturation (warm season) should not be lower than the threshold value
5.3: At least 50% of Noctiluca scintillans biomass values do not exceed the threshold values: -cold season - 70mg/m3 -warm season - 240mg/m3
5.4: Percentile 90 of water transparency (warm season) should be higher than the threshold value
5.1: DIN and DIP concentrations to be maintained or decreased
5.6: Average biomass of opportunistic macroalgae expressed as ESGII (opportunistic/total biomass ratio percentage) does not exceed 40%.
5.3: At least 50% of Noctiluca scintillans biomass values do not exceed the threshold values: -cold season - 60mg/m3 -warm season - 240mg/m3
5.3: At least 50% of Noctiluca scintillans biomass values do not exceed the threshold values: -cold season - 100mg/m3 -warm season - 350mg/m3
5.1: Principle OneOutAllOut applied to maximum allowable concentrations from national legislation (Ord.161/2006) for each parameter (TP, NO3, NO2, NH4).
5.2: 75 percentile of warm season chlorophyll a concentrations in water do not exceed the threshold values
Target value No. of parameters/elements with quantitative values
  • Not reported (18 - 66.7%)
  • Reported (9 - 33.3%)
  • Not reported (0 - 0.0%)
  • Reported (24 - 100.0%)
Target status No. of assessments per category
  • Status not reported (20 - 74.1%)
  • Target not yet achieved (7 - 25.9%)
  • Target achieved (10 - 41.7%)
  • Target not yet achieved (14 - 58.3%)
Assessment period No. of targets per period
2012-2017 (27 - 100.0%)
2012-2017 (24 - 100.0%)
Timescale to achieve targets No. of targets per date
2023-12 (27 - 93.1%)
2024-07 (2 - 6.9%)
2020-12 (24 - 100.0%)
Update date No. of targets per date
2015-07 (2 - 6.9%)
2015-12 (6 - 20.7%)
2021-09 (19 - 65.5%)
2023-12 (2 - 6.9%)
2014-06 (15 - 62.5%)
2014-07 (2 - 8.3%)
2018-12 (7 - 29.2%)
Update type No. of targets per category
  • New target (23 - 79.3%)
  • Same as 2012 definition (6 - 20.7%)
  • Modified from 2012 definition (17 - 70.8%)
  • New target (7 - 29.2%)
Related indicators No. of different indicators reported
7
7
Related measures No. of different measures reported
3
1