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 GD20 Worked Examples
• MSFD update of Articles 8, 9 and 10 Reference Dataset Reportnet3

Schemas

Schemas based on the Reporting Guidance:

Updated on 20.04.2023

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Reporting tools

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 and exercise of overlaping the current MRUs with the regional assessment areas has been done. The result can be dowloades in the following link in Geopackage format

Prefilling

Inside the new platform you can find an option to get the previously reported data for the Article 8, 9 and 10.