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 of Article 18, Progress on PoMs.

• MSFD Article 18 Reporting Guidance Final

QC rules available in RN3 for the MSFD Article 18.

• QC rules - Article 18 (Updated on 31.03.2025)

Frequently Asked Questions and changes in validations (QC rules):

• Frequently Asked Questions and changes in validations (QC rules) (Updated on 08.05.2025)

Schemas

Schemas based on Reporting Guidance:

Updated on 21.10.2024

• ART18 - Schema_Information.xls
• ART18.png

Enumeration lists

Enumeration lists (reference data in R3):

Updated on 25.04.2025

• ART18 - EnumerationLists.xlsx

Prefilling

Inside the new platform you can find an option to get the previously reported data during the 2nd cycle (2022) for Article 13:

Updated on 04.12.2024

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