Member State report / Art8 / 2018 / D4 / North East Atlantic

Report type Member State report to Commission
MSFD Article Art. 8 Initial assessment (and Art. 17 updates)
Report due 2018-10-15
GES Descriptor D4 Food webs/D1 Ecosystems
Region/subregion North East Atlantic
Reported by Member state
Member state
Sweden
Denmark
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
France
United Kingdom
Ireland
Spain
Portugal
Member state report
Marine reporting units MRUs used
  • ANS-SE-SR-Nordsjon
  • ANS-DK-TOTAL
  • DK-TOTAL-part-ANS
  • ANSDE_MS
  • L1.2
  • ACS-IE-AA-001
  • ABI-ES-SD-NOR
  • ABI-ES-SD-SUD
  • AMA-ES-SD-CAN
  • ABI-PT-AA-CONT_A
  • ABI-PT-AA-CONT_B
  • ABI-PT-AA-CONT_C
  • AMA-PT-SD-AZO
Features Ecosystems, including food webs
  • Ecosystems, including food webs (3)
  • Shelf ecosystem (7)
  • Coastal ecosystem (2)
  • Shelf ecosystem (2)
  • Ecosystems, including food webs (1)
  • Ecosystems, including food webs (2)
  • Shelf ecosystem (12)
  • Shelf ecosystem (46)
Element All trophic guilds
  • D4C1 (1)
  • D4C3 (1)
  • D4C4 (1)
  • D4C1 (1)
  • D4C1 (7)
  • D4C2 (7)
Element Primary producers
  • D4C1 (1)
  • D4C2 (1)
Element Secondary producers
  • D4C2 (1)
Element Planktivores
  • D4C2 (1)
Element Sub-apex pelagic predators
  • D4C2 (1)
Element Sub-apex demersal predators
  • D4C2 (1)
  • D4C3 (1)
  • D4C2 (8)
Element Apex predators
  • D4C2 (1)
  • D4C2 (8)
Element All consumers
  • D4C2 (8)
Element Fish community
  • D4C1 (1)
  • D4C1 (4)
  • D4C3 (4)
Element Phytoplankton
  • D4C2 (1)
Element2
Element sources No. of elements per level
  • EU (3)
  • GFCM (0)
  • ICES (0)
  • National (0)
  • OSPAR (0)
  • EU (1)
  • GFCM (0)
  • ICES (0)
  • National (6)
  • OSPAR (0)
  • EU (1)
  • GFCM (0)
  • ICES (0)
  • National (0)
  • OSPAR (0)
  • EU (2)
  • GFCM (0)
  • ICES (0)
  • National (0)
  • OSPAR (0)
  • EU (0)
  • GFCM (0)
  • ICES (0)
  • National (0)
  • OSPAR (1)
  • EU (0)
  • GFCM (2)
  • ICES (8)
  • National (36)
  • OSPAR (0)
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters) D4 Food webs/D1 Ecosystems
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters) D4C1 Trophic guild species diversity (1.7, 1.7.1)
  • Other - Trophic guild species diversity (1)
  • Other - Diversity of primary producers see report in D1 pelagic habitats (1)
  • Other - Parameter wurden noch nicht festgelegt (2)
  • Other - Fish (1)
  • Other - Biomassa (4)
  • Other - Proporção de Peixes Grandes (em biomassa) (4)
  • Other - capturas (3)
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters) D4C2 Abundance across trophic guilds (1.7, 1.7.1, 4.3, 4.3.1)
  • Biomass (3)
  • Other - As reported under D1C2 for birds (1)
  • Other - Biomass as reported under D1 pelagic habitats (1)
  • Other - Biomass of zooplankton see report under D1 pelagic habitats. (1)
  • Other - Parameter wurden noch nicht festgelegt (2)
  • Other - Phytoplankton (1)
  • Biomass (1)
  • Abundance (1)
  • Biomass (11)
  • Other - Biomassa (3)
  • Other - Capturas (13)
  • Other - capturas (3)
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters) D4C3 Trophic guild size distribution (4.2, 4.2.1)
  • Other - Trophic guild size distribution (1)
  • Size distribution (1)
  • Other - Proporção de Peixes Grandes (em biomassa) (4)
Criteria and parameters used (number of parameters) D4C4 Trophic guild productivity (4.1, 4.1.1)
  • Other - Trophic guild productivity (1)
Threshold values % of parameters with values (no. of parameters)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
Threshold value sources D4 Food webs/D1 Ecosystems
Threshold value sources D4C1 Trophic guild species diversity (1.7, 1.7.1)
Threshold value sources D4C2 Abundance across trophic guilds (1.7, 1.7.1, 4.3, 4.3.1)
Threshold value sources D4C3 Trophic guild size distribution (4.2, 4.2.1)
  • OSPAR (1)
Threshold value sources D4C4 Trophic guild productivity (4.1, 4.1.1)
Value achieved upper % of parameters with values (no. of parameters)
0% (0)
28% (2)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
Value achieved lower % of parameters with values (no. of parameters)
0% (0)
14% (1)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
0% (0)
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion) D4 Food webs/D1 Ecosystems
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion) D4C1 Trophic guild species diversity (1.7, 1.7.1)
  • Quilograma / hora (1)
  • Quilograma por hora (2)
  • percentage (4)
  • tonne (3)
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion) D4C2 Abundance across trophic guilds (1.7, 1.7.1, 4.3, 4.3.1)
  • mg C pr cubic meter (1)
  • tonne (1)
  • quilograma/hora (12)
  • tonne (11)
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion) D4C3 Trophic guild size distribution (4.2, 4.2.1)
  • centimetre (1)
  • percentage (4)
Value unit/Value unit other (count of use per criterion) D4C4 Trophic guild productivity (4.1, 4.1.1)
Proportion threshold values Range of % values (no. of parameters)
Range: 100-100% (1 of 1 parameters)
Proportion values achieved Range of % values (no. of parameters)
Proportion threshold value units
% area of MRU achieving threshold value
Trends No. of trends per category
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (3 or 100.0%)
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (1 or 14.3%)
  • Unknown (6 or 85.7%)
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (4 or 100.0%)
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (1 or 100.0%)
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (2 or 100.0%)
  • Deteriorating (0 or 0.0%)
  • Improving (0 or 0.0%)
  • Stable (1 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Deteriorating (2 or 4.3%)
  • Improving (9 or 19.6%)
  • Stable (35 or 76.1%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
Parameters achieved No. of parameters per category
  • Not assessed (3 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (7 or 100.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (4 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (1 or 100.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (2 or 100.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (1 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Yes (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (45 or 97.8%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Yes (1 or 2.2%)
Related indicators
  • DK-BIRDDIRART12
  • DK-HABDIRART17
  • DK-TOTAL-BALANCE
  • DK-TOTAL-DIVERSITET
  • ANSL-OSPAR-D4C3
  • D4el1
  • D4el2
  • ABI-PT-AZO_LFI
  • ABI-PT-AZO_MTL
  • ABI-PT-AZO_SPE
  • ABI-PT-CONT_LFI
  • ABI-PT-CONT_MTL
  • ABI-PT-CONT_TS
Criteria status No. of criteria per category
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (3 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (7 or 100.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (4 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (1 or 100.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (2 or 100.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (12 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Contributes to assessment of another criterion/ele (3 or 6.5%)
  • Good (43 or 93.5%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
Element status No. of elements per category
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (3 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (7 or 100.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (1 or 100.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (2 or 100.0%)
  • Good (0 or 0.0%)
  • Not assessed (1 or 100.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
  • Good (46 or 100.0%)
  • Not assessed (0 or 0.0%)
  • Unknown (0 or 0.0%)
Integration rule type for parameters
Not relevant (3 or 100.0%)
Not relevant (7 or 100.0%)
OTH (1 or 100.0%)
Not relevant (12 or 100.0%)
Integration rule description for parameters
Integration has not been applied
Integration has not been applied within trophic levels
No integration
Integration rule type for criteria
Not relevant (3 or 100.0%)
Not relevant (7 or 100.0%)
Not relevant (4 or 100.0%)
OTH (1 or 100.0%)
SPATIAL (2 or 100.0%)
Not relevant (12 or 100.0%)
OOAO (46 or 100.0%)
Integration rule description for criteria
The assessment for D4 at criteria level is not done quantitatively due to lack of integration methods.
Integration has not been applied
No integration
GES extent threshold
  • 100.00 (1 of 1, or 100.0%)
GES extent achieved
GES extent unit
  • Not relevant (4 of 4, or 100.0%)
  • Proportion of area in good status (1 of 1, or 100.0%)
  • Not relevant (4 of 4, or 100.0%)
GES achieved Coastal ecosystem
  • GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported (2)
GES achieved Shelf ecosystem
  • Unknown (7)
  • GES expected to be achieved later than 2020, no Article 14 exception reported (2)
  • Not assessed (8)
  • Unknown (4)
  • GES achieved (46)
GES achieved Ecosystems, including food webs
  • Not assessed (3)
  • Unknown (1)
  • Unknown (2)
Assessment period
2011-2016 (3 or 100.0%)
2012-2018 (7 or 100.0%)
2012-2018 (4 or 100.0%)
1983-2016 (1 or 100.0%)
1958-2014 (2 or 100.0%)
2012-2017 (4 or 33.3%)
2012-2018 (8 or 66.7%)
2012-2017 (46 or 100.0%)
Related pressures
  • Disturbance of species (e.g. where they breed, rest and feed) due to human presence (3 or 8.3%)
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities) (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of anthropogenic sound (impulsive, continuous) (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of microbial pathogens (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of nutrients - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of organic matter - diffuse sources and point sources (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of other forms of energy (including electromagnetic fields, light and heat) (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input of other substances (e.g. synthetic substances, non-synthetic substances, radionuclides) - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition, acute events (3 or 8.3%)
  • Input or spread of non-indigenous species (3 or 8.3%)
  • Physical disturbance to seabed (3 or 8.3%)
  • Physical loss of the seabed (3 or 8.3%)
  • Changes to hydrological conditions (7 or 100.0%)
  • All pressures (4 or 100.0%)
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities) (1 or 50.0%)
  • Input of nutrients - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition (1 or 50.0%)
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities) (2 or 33.3%)
  • Input of nutrients - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition (2 or 33.3%)
  • Input of organic matter - diffuse sources and point sources (2 or 33.3%)
  • All pressures related to inputs of substances, litter and energy (8 or 20.0%)
  • Eutrophication (4 or 10.0%)
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities) (8 or 20.0%)
  • Litter in the environment (8 or 20.0%)
  • Physical disturbance to seabed (8 or 20.0%)
  • Physical loss of the seabed (4 or 10.0%)
  • Disturbance of species (e.g. where they breed, rest and feed) due to human presence (36 or 9.1%)
  • Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities) (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of genetically modified species and translocation of native species (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter) (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of microbial pathogens (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of nutrients - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of organic matter - diffuse sources and point sources (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of other forms of energy (including electromagnetic fields, light and heat) (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input of other substances (e.g. synthetic substances, non-synthetic substances, radionuclides) - diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition, acute events (36 or 9.1%)
  • Input or spread of non-indigenous species (36 or 9.1%)
  • Loss of, or change to, natural biological communities due to cultivation of animal or plant species (36 or 9.1%)
Related targets
7
3
7
10
2
50