Marine Strategy Framework Directive reporting resources Support files for the reporting on the 2024 update of the Articles 8, 9 and 10

Guidance documents

The following documents have been developed as guides for the reporting process for the MSFD Article 8, 9 and 10.

• MSFD update of Articles 8, 9 and 10 Reporting Guidance
• MSFD update of Articles 8, 9 and 10 Reference Dataset Reportnet3 (Updated on 05.02.2025)
• DIKE 30 2024 reporting ReferenceList 20240426

GD20 - Worked examples documents:
- clean version.
- version with clarifications for the reporting of the threshold value for noise.

• Reporting_GD20_WorkedExamples_20241111_Vupdated_Tclean_C2
• Reporting_GD20_WorkedExamples_20241111_Vupdated_Tnoiseexplain_C2

QC rules available in RN3 for the MSFD Article 8, 9 and 10.

• QC rules - Articles 8, 9 and 10 (Updated on 02.10.2024)

Schemas

Updated on 20.04.2023

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Reporting tools

Dataflow help documents

• Webinar 2024-06-27 Insights on how to update data for Articles 8, 9 and 10
• Manual on reporting MSFD Arts 4-8-9-10 using Reportnet 3 v1
• Webinar 2024-06-27 - Recording
• Excel to CSV guide (R3 import)

Reportnet 3

The platform Reportnet 3 will be used in the reporting and it is accessible in the following URL https://reportnet.europa.eu/. To use this new platform a EU login account is need, you can get one following this document. Once you have the new user account, please access the paltform and then contact helpdesk to ask reporter permissions for the obligation dataflow. A generic guidance on Reportnet 3 is available in the following link:

• Reportnet 3 reporter guidance

Marine Reporting Units overlap with regional assessment areas (OSPAR, HELCOM)

To facilitate the process of modelling MRUs, an exercise of overlapping the current MRUs with regional assessment areas has been done. The results can be accessible and downloaded from the following folder: MRU overlaps

Tabular data:

• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Romania
• Spain

Marine Reporting Units overlap with SDI data

To facilitate the process of modelling MRUs, an exercise of overlapping the current MRUs with regional assessment areas has been done. The results can be accessible and downloaded from the following folder: MRU overlaps

Tabular data:

• Albania
• Andorra
• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Greece
• Hungary
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Norway
• Portugal
• Slovenia
• Sweden

Prefilling

Inside the new platform you can find an option to get the previously reported data during the 2nd cycle (2018) for the Articles 8, 9 and 10.



Reportnet 3 platform also offers prefilled data from both OSPAR and HELCOM. This platform ensures access to the latest available data and information. Prefilled data can be imported in Reportnet 3 by clicking 'Import dataset data' and downloaded by clicking 'Export dataset data'.

• OSPAR prefilling - Art. 8 GES
• OSPAR prefilling - Indicators
• HELCOM prefilling - Art. 8 GES
• HELCOM prefilling - Indicators

Water Framework Directive (WFD): Extract from the 2022 reporting exercise of the status classification of the coastal water bodies (and territorial waters in the case of the chemical status) reported at the Quality Element level and provided at WFD water body level.

• WFD - 2022 extract (D5)
• WFD - 2022 extract (D8)

Prefilling for CFP regarding assessed information relating to criteria D3C1 (fishing mortality rates) and D3C2 (spawning stock biomass) per fish stock, are provided from information extracted from the latest assessments by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).

• CFP - ART 8 GES
• CFP - Indicators

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