Marine Strategy Framework Directive reporting resources Support files for the reporting on the article 18

Guidance documents

The following documents have been developed as guides for the reporting process for the Article 18, Progress on PoMs.

• MSFD Article 18 Reporting Guidance Final

Schemas

Schemas based on Reporting Guidance (to be used for generation of the XML to be submitted to CDR):

Updated on 25.09.2018

• ART18.xsd
• MSFDCommon_ART18.xsd
• MSFD Article 18 reporting schemas zip (all the schemas in a zip file)

Data specifications in UML

The UML provides developers the capacity to implement their own reporting tools.

• UML MSFD_2018 in Enterprise Architect project format (EAP)

  You can download at this link a free tool that will allow you to visualise and explore MSFD_2018 model.

  You can obtain further information about this tool at this link.

See below the UML diagrams for human reading:

• ART18.png
• MSFDCommon_ART18.png

Web-forms

A web-form has been developed for each schema. The following document has been developed as guide for web-forms.

• MSFD Web Forms User Guide

The web-forms can be accessed at this url http://webforms.eionet.europa.eu/. You need to click on the 'Create new session file' button to start any questionnaire, in our case 'MSFD Article 18, Progress on PoMs' web form (see the image below).