EMODnet Chemistry
Output from TG Data for MSFD
implementation
Giordano Giorgi - ISPRA
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MSFD implementation: status of art
• MS have produced Report on initial assessment, determination
of Good Environmental Status (GES) and identification of
Environmental Targets in fall 2012 – spring 2013
• MS have to define and implement MSFD monitoring
programmes on 15th July and communicate them to EC on 15th
October 2014
• MS have to establish MSFD programmes of measures to reach
GES by 2015
• MS will be requested to take position on how monitoring data
present and future will be made available to EC and EEA.
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New initiatives of European Commission on Common
Implementation Strategy of Marine Strategy Framework
Directive:
• Newly established Technical Group on Data (TG Data) to
support Working Group DIKE for handling, sharing and
streamlining MSFD monitoring data also with other reporting
requirements;
• EC has started recently a MED-CIS programme to foster MSFD
implementation for EU Mediterranean MS with the involvement
of Barcelona Convention (UNEP/MAP) also in relation with
EcAP (Ecological Approach) Process on UNEP/MAP Monitoring
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TG Data is chaired by EEA and is relevant for EMODNet
Chemistry for Descriptor 5 for Eutrophication and
Descriptor 8 on Contaminants:
• Accessing data and information according to MSFD Art. 19.3, in
the context of WISE-Marine and associated to INSPIRE,
EMODnet, and other relevant processes and projects;
• Geographic handling and visualization of reported information;
• Technical development of WISE-Marine, including linkages to
other reporting requirements (e.g. for Regional Sea
Conventions, Water Framework Directive and the Nature
Directives), and preparation of dissemination products, including
mapped information;
• Technical development of decentralised reporting methods and
systems.
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1st Meeting of TG Data on 29-30 April 2014 on Eutrophication
and Contaminants (1):
• Review of data flows on chemical monitoring parameter on
nutrients and contaminants provided by MS with EIONET,
RSCs, WFD and so on, according to different D5 and D8
indicators
• EMODNet candidate platform for testing and implementation of
D5 and D8 indicators at regional and subregional scale.
Consequence: very important to distinguish data relevant for
MSFD implementation in EMODNet Chemistry
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1st Meeting of TG Data on 29-30 April 2014 on Eutrophication
and Contaminants (2):
• Info on QA/QC in EMODNet Chemistry in relation to
Commission Directive 2009/90/EC on technical specifications
for chemical analysis and monitoring of water status,sediment
and biota (ISO 17025:2005) (Work Package 3)
• DIVA interpolation map very useful for MSFD applications: data
need to be “spatialized” in order to be compared with other
environmental information layers. But such approach needs to
be discussed in depth in order to be “adopted”. Biogeochemical
models should also be involved? Could be DIVA integrated with
them? And if yes, How?
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General setting for QA/QC validation for WP3:
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Some QCs are currently being performed ex-post by Regional
data collector in order to produce aggregation and DIVA
interpolation maps
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Spikes, outlier
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Lack of data on geographic coordinates, depth, etc..
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Missing values or values below limit of detection
WP3 approach mainly on QC and also QA
performed ex-ante by data provider
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Draft proposal of a Questionnaire based on ISO/IEC
17025:2005 (1):
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General questions of laboratory QA/QC according to
17025:2005 (qualified personnel, equipment calibration, use of
standard or published methods, accuracy, precision, limit of
detection and quantification
General questions to all matrices (code lists of vocabularies,
CAS Number, Cruise ID’s/ Geographic area/
Organisation/Research, Station Names- coordinates, Sampling
method and storage, Analytical method, Limit of detection/limit
of determination, Uncertainty, Units (preferred EMODNet
Chemistry), Reference Materials-intercalibration
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Draft proposal of a Questionnaire based on ISO/IEC
17025:2005 (2):
Questions specific for matrices
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Seawater
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Sample type with indication of total, dissolved or particulate fraction
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Method of Filtration
Biota
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Species (species must match to the European Register of Marine
Species (ERMS) or ITIS (Taxonomic Information System), maximum
range for age, length and weight of species
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Number of Individuals in biota samples
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Tissue
Sediment
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Grain size of the fractionated sample
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TG Data, INSPIRE and relation with Regional Sea
Conventions
INSPIRE
• INSPIRE compliance of EMODNet Chemistry portal
• Can MS use EMODNet Chemistry in order to be compliant with
INSPIRE for Nutrients and Contaminants data?
For Barcelona Convention on Mediterranean Sea:
• EC MED-CIS programme to foster MSFD implementation for EU
Mediterranean MS with involvement of Barcelona Convention
UNEP/MAP Info-RAC for Data Management and Collection has
never really started
• EMODNet Chemistry could also be a candidate platform for
UNEP/MAP?
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