# ART10_Targets_Target

Description:
In a 6 year cycle 95% from the monthly chlorophyl-a values are below the limit reference points in more than 10% in spring and 5% in summer or trend to point reduction


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintenance of concentration of chlorophyl-a at level unaffected by the antropogenic pressure


Description:
Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus): Stable upward trend in spawning stock biomass at regional level;


Description:
Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus): Steady trend of decreasing fishing mortality at regional level below the limit reference value of fishing mortality FMSY = F ≤ 0.54, at natural fishing mortality ratio of M = 0.81, and level of exploitation E ≤ 0.4 (Daskalov et al., 2012);


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): 95 th (95%) percentile of the size structure of the population to show a stable trend with an average reference value of 62 cm


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): Maintainance of the values ​​of the ratio between the catches and the indices of the biomass in the marginal reference point of 0.033;


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): Proportion of fish with a length greater than the average length of sexual maturity (42 cm) to be above the reference value of 74%.


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): Stable upward trend in spawning stock biomass at regional level;


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): Steady trend of decreasing fishing mortality at regional level below the limit reference value of fishing mortality FMSY = 0.07-0.15 (Daskalov et al., 2012);


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): The average length of fish in the catches should not be below the reference value of 56 cm (± 10%)


Description:
Black-Sea Turbot (Scophthalmus maeoticus): Upward trend in the index of biomass nationally. The index value should not be lower than the reference value of 1700 tons;


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus):  The average length of fish in the catches should not be below the reference value of 8 cm (± 10%)


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus):  Upward trend in the index of biomass nationally. The index value should not be lower than the reference value of 55,000 tons;


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus): Maintainance of the values ​​of the ratio between the catches and the indices of the biomass in the marginal reference point of 0.082;


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus): Proportion of fish with a length greater than the average length of sexual maturity (7.1 cm) to be above the reference value of 68%.


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus): Stable upward trend in spawning stock biomass at regional level;


Description:
Sprat (Sprattus sprattus): Steady trend of decreasing fishing mortality at regional level below the limit reference value of fishing mortality FMSY = F ≤ 0.64 and level of exploitation, E ≤ 0.4 (Daskalov et al., 2012);


Description:
Positive tendency in biodeversity of species


Description:
Preservation in range of distribution of species


Description:
Compliance of the Black Sea fish and other marine organisms used as food to the standards for pollutants regulated under national and European legislation.


Description:
Reduced pressure from diffuse sources, including the atmosheric sources of pollution


Description:
Reduction of the accidental spills of oil and other hazardous substances, capable of polluting the marine environment (inclding the  range and number of the impacted areas)


Description:
All practical activities must comply with the current regulatory regime and management should ensure that regulatory assessments are carried out in a way that provides the most complete consideration of all potential impacts, including cumulative effects in the most appropriate spatial scales to ensure that the health of the environment is not compromised. It is necessary to control of critical parts of the sea: coastal, shelf (including over the continental slope, where there are a number important processes), and the deep-sea basin. In the long term it is necessary to develop more detailed statistical information ensuring basic estimates of the prevailing hydrographic conditions of the environment in the three assessment areas: coastal, shelf and open sea. Special control is needed on the hydrographical conditions and their impact to chemical and biological changes, especially in the critical boundary between cold and warm half-year (i.e. March-April).


Description:
In the quontitative structure of the macrozoobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high biodiversity and sencitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical macrozoobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintaining of typical species and biological communities


Description:
The area of the mediolittoral sands, affected by sealing, covering and alteration in hydrodinamic conditions in result of human activities, is not increasing considerably compared to the status of the initial assessment


Description:
The size and population of typical species is maintained at current level with relatively unaffected arreas


Description:
Positive tendency in number of populations


Description:
Tendency in decrease in accidental catch of marine mammals


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintenance of composition and taxonomic structure of phytoplankton communities at level unaffected by the antropogenic pressure


Description:
NIS: Communities dominated by indigenous species. There are no non-indigenous species introduced


Description:
NIS: Maintenance of low values of the biomass of the invasive species Mnemiopsis leidyi (g/m^3)


Description:
Maintenance of low biomass values of N.scintillans, lack of blooms or decresing of its intencity, decreasing of spatial distribution of blooms


Description:
No repletion of oxygen saturation at the upper layer is allowed


Description:
Preservation of stable oxygen conditions in total Euphotic layer, which not to allow raising of the border of suboxi layer at lower depth


Description:
Preservation of such oxygen conditons which to ensure that water at botom layer or the water below thermocline during summer stratification are well aerated and no hypoxi effects are initiated as a result of intense oxygenation processes with participation of produced organic matter


Description:
Phytoplankton: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for long-term maintenance of the phytoplankton biomass level unaffected by human activities (1.6.2)


Description:
Melinna palmata: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for the long-term maintenance of the typical species and biological communities (1.6.3)


Description:
Melinna palmata: the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrate high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in ≥ 80% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Melinna palmata: the range, distribution and area of the habitat correspond to the reference undisturbed condition of the mud substrates in the shallow sublittoral zone and do not experince substantial increase at the expense of the shallow sand substrates, decreasing as a result of siltation


Description:
Abundancy and status of population of Pholas dactylus is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Distribution and area of association of Cystoseira species is stable or growing


Description:
Distribution and covered area of the population of Pholas dactylus is stable or encreasing and correspond to the diversity of suitable soft rocky substrates (mergel, sands, clays)


Description:
Distribution and surface of the association of annual green and red algae is decreasing and the surface of association of Cystoseira is encreasing


Description:
Distribution and surface of the association of Phyllophora crispa is stable or encresing


Description:
Distribution, coverage and area of Mutilus galloprovincialis and Mytilaster lineatus are stable or encreasing and are corresponding to natural distribution of rocky substrates in the shallow sublittoral area.


Description:
In the quontitative structure of the phytobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high biodiversity and sensitive  species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical phytobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Multimetric indexes of the community are showing tendency for encrease of the biological diversity and encrease of the share of sensitive species in the structure of the phytobenthos


Description:
Mutilus galloprovincialis and Mytilaster lineatus - Size and status of populations of typical species is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Mutilus galloprovincialis and Mytilaster lineatus-In the quontitative structure of the macrozoobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high diversity and sencitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical macrozoobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Phyllophora crispa - In the quontitative structure of the phytobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high biodiversity and sensitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical phytobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Phyllophora crispa -Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintain of the typical species and biological communities


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are improving


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintain of the typical species and biological communities


Description:
Population of Rapana venosa is not causing negative alterations in populations of Mytilus galloprovincialis and Mytilaster lineatus


Description:
Sealing, coverage and harming of Pholas dactylus populations is not allowed by hydrotechnical installations, sand supply of beaches, proffesional or hobby catch of Pholas dactylus and other human activities


Description:
Size and status of populations of tipical species Phyllophora crispa is maintained at current level of relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Size and status of populations of typical species are maintained at current status by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Spread, distribution and area of the habitat are stable and correspond  to the natural distribution of rocky substrates in the shallow sublittoral area


Description:
Abundance and status of populations of typical species Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Abundance and status of populations of typical species Lentidium mediterraneum and Arenicolla marina is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Abundancy and status of population of Donax trunculus is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas


Description:
Abundancy and status of population of typidal  see grass is maintained at current level by relatively unaffected areas. The good status of typical see grass communities is achieved at over 95% from the national ceverage of the habitat.


Description:
Area of distribution, spread and cover by typical species Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla are stable or encreasing and correspond to the natural diversity and spread of shallow average-grain and fine-grain sands


Description:
Area of distribution, spread and cover by typical species Lentidium mediterraneum and Arenicolla marina are stable or encreasing and correspond to the natural diversity and spread of shallow average-grain and fine-grain sands


Description:
Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla sands - In the quontitative structure of the macrozoobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high diversity and sencitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical macrozoobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla sands - Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintaining of typical species and biological communities


Description:
Damage of status of the biotop and population of Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla is not allowed by dragging and suction for profesional fisheries


Description:
Damage of status of the biotop and population of Donax trunculus is not allowed by dragging and suction for profesional fisheries


Description:
Distribution, spread and coverage of Donax trunculus are stable or encreasing and correspond to the natural diversity of shallow coarse-grained and small-grained sands at up to 5 m depth


Description:
Distribution, spread and coverage of habitat are stable and correspond to natural distribution of sandy substrates in shallow sublitorral area


Description:
Distribution, spread and coverage of underwater meadows are stable or encreasing compared to the level of the initial assessment


Description:
Donax trunculus sands - In the quontitative structure of the macrozoobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high diversity and sencitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical macrozoobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Donax trunculus sands - Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintaining of typical species and biological communities


Description:
Lentidium mediterraneum and Arenicolla marina sands - In the quontitative structure of the macrozoobenthos sensitive species are prevailing. Multimetric indexes of the community represent high diversity and sencitive and tolerance species are prevailing over oportunistic species. Good status of the typical macrozoobenthic communities is achieved at over 95% of the national area of the habitat


Description:
Lentidium mediterraneum and Arenicolla marina sands - Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintaining of typical species and biological communities


Description:
Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for longterm maintenance of transparency of the water at level unaffected by the antropogenic pressure


Description:
Zooplankton: to achieve GES of the zooplankton community, it is necessary to maintain the diversity and abundance of the Copepoda species above the specified threshold values


Description:
Spread, distribution and area of the habitat are stable and correspond  to the natural distribution of rocky substrates in mediolittoral area


Description:
The surface of the mediolittoral rocks, affected by sealing, covering and alteration in hydrodinamic conditions in result of human activities, is not increasing considerably compared to the status of the initial assessment


Description:
Spread, distribution and area of the habitat are stable and correspond  to the natural distribution of sandy substrates in mediolittoral area


Description:
the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrates high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in ≥ 80% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Nephthys, Pitar, Spisula, Abra: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for the long-term maintenance of the typical species and biological communities (1.6.3)


Description:
Nephthys, Pitar, Spisula, Abra: the mud sediments of the shelf are subjected to declining pressure from dredging fishing gear


Description:
Nephthys, Pitar, Spisula, Abra: the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrate high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in ≥ 80% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Terebellides stroemi: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for the long-term maintenance of the typical species and biological communities (1.6.3)


Description:
Terebellides stroemi: the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrate high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in ≥ 80% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Modiola phaseolina: Phaseolina mixed sediments of the shelf are subjected to declining pressure from dredging fishing gear


Description:
Modiola phaseolina: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for the long-term maintenance of the typical species and biological communities (1.6.3)


Description:
Modiola phaseolina: Size and distribution of Modiolula phaseolina is stable or increasing towards the outer shelf and corresponds to the natural distribution of the Phaseolina dominated shellfish substrates.


Description:
Modiola phaseolina: the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrate high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in ≥ 80% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Mytilus gallorpovinvialis on sediments: Physical, hydrological and chemical conditions are suitable for the long-term maintenance of the typical species and biological communities (1.6.3)


Description:
Mytilus gallorpovinvialis on sediments: The abundance and state of the popuation of the typical ecosystem engineer Mytilus galloprovincialis increases with regard to its present state, determined in the Initial Assessment


Description:
Mytilus gallorpovinvialis on sediments: the size and range of distribution of the banks covered by Mytilus gallorpovinvialis mussels are stable or increasing and not less than 90% of the reference state from 1950 to 1960's.


Description:
Mytilus gallorpovinvialis on sediments: the soft-substrate Mytilus galloprovincialis mussel banks experince decreasing trawling pressure (criterion 6.1.2)


Description:
Shelf sands: Abundance and population status of typical species Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla are maintained at current levels as in the relatively unaffected areas (criteria 1.2.1, 1.3.1)


Description:
Shelf sands: Abundance, biomass and size composition of the population of Chamelea gallina and Upogebia pusilla (criteria 1.2.1 and 1.3.1)


Description:
Shelf sands: In the structure of the benthic macroinvertebrates is dominated by sensitive species (criterion 6.2.1). the multimetric M-AMBI indexes of the community demonstrate high diversity and dominance of the sensitive and tolerant over the opportunistic species (criterion 6.2.2). The well-being of the typical benthic macroinvertebrate communities is achieved in more than 95% of the national area of the habitat.


Description:
Shelf sands: The habitat distribution and habitat area are stable and correspond to the natural distribution of the sand substrates on the shelf (Criterion 1.4.1)


# ART9_GES_GESDetermination

GESDescription:
Chlorophyll a concentration, coastal, summer, 1990-2011. Chlorophyll a concentration, open sea, summer, 1990-2011. Secondary phytoplankton bloom at a taxonomic level (5.2.4), shelf, summer, 2006-2011.


GESDescription:
oxygen saturation (OS%), coastal, upper homogeneous layer, summer, 2000-2011. oxygen saturation (OS%), open sea, upper homogeneous layer, summer, 2000-2011. oxygen saturation (OS%), shelf, upper homogeneous layer, summer, 2000-2011.


GESDescription:
Distribution, size and condition of the predominant types of seabed habitats and diversity of associated species and communities correspond to the natural physical geography and climate, taking into account the sustainable use of the marine environment and climate change. Natural range and surface area of the predominant habitats and associated typical species do not decrease significantly and are unlikely to decrease in the future. The specific ecological conditions necessary for long-term conservation of the typical species and biological communities will continue to exist in the future. The extent and condition of habitats on the seabed support the functioning of the natural ecosystem processes, providing ecosystem goods and services such as food production, maintenance of the quality of the seawater, opportunities for recreation and tourism..


GESDescription:
Fish: the range of the distribution of fish populations did not change; Mammals: the range of the distribution of marine mammals does not change.


GESDescription:
Fish: the diversity in the structure of the fish communities is maintained at a high level. Mesozooplankton biomass, open sea, 1966-2009. Phytoplankton biomass, coastal, spring, 2006-2011. Phytoplankton biomass, shelf, spring, 2006-2011.


GESDescription:
The harvesting of the fish stocks is within the environmental carrying capacity. If the maximum sustainable yield (MSY, designated with Fmsy or F0.1) values are unknown, as an indicator will be used the ratio between catch and biomass index..


GESDescription:
The spawning stock biomass (SSB) of the fish stocks is at level, providing maximum sustainable yields (MSY). If the value of the SSB is unknown, as an indicator will be used the biomass indices, derived from theoretical data..


GESDescription:
Each stock comprises a high percentage of adult fish of the respective size structure.


GESDescription:
Ammonium (NH4-N) concentration, coastal, summer, 2000-2011 (1.5 µM/l). Ammonium (NH4-N) concentration, open sea, summer, 2000-2011 (0.8 µM/l). Ammonium (NH4-N) concentration, shelf, summer, 2000-2011.


GESDescription:
Impacts of human activities do not result in significant damage to the physical substrate and the biological structures on the seabed and deterioration of associated biological communities. The special habitat designated as endangered or vulnerable at the national level or by regional agreements (Bucharest Convention) and European legislation (the Habitats Directive) is effectively conserved by appropriate national and regional mechanisms.


GESDescription:
Coastal: Preserving the present thermodynamic and hydrodynamic status of the marine environment in the coastal, shelf and open sea areas. Open sea: Preserving the present thermodynamic and hydrodynamic status of the marine environment in the coastal, shelf and open sea areas. Shelf: Preserving the present thermodynamic and hydrodynamic status of the marine environment in the coastal, shelf and open sea areas.


GESDescription:
Coastal: GES will be achieved when the concentration of the hazardous substances is close to the background levels or, for those discharges in the marine environment from human activity, close to zero. Open sea: GES will be achieved when the concentration of the hazardous substances is close to the background levels or, for those discharges in the marine environment from human activity, close to zero.


# CostOfDegradationType

CostOfDegradationType:
Residual impacts, with reference to the current legislation objectives


# ElementCodeSources

Link:
Link to other vocabulary or code lists that may be relevant


Conditional:
Eutrophication (D5) and contaminants (D8-D9)


# Features

Subject:
Uses and human activities in or affecting the marine environment


Feature:
All activities related to cultivation of living resources


Feature:
Aquaculture – marine, including infrastructure


Feature:
All activities related to extraction of living resources


Feature:
Fish and shellfish harvesting (professional, recreational)


Feature:
Hunting and collecting for other purposes


Feature:
All activities related to extraction of non-living resources


Feature:
Extraction of minerals (rock, metal ores, gravel, sand, shell)


Feature:
Extraction of oil and gas, including infrastructure


Feature:
Military operations (subject to Article 2(2))


Feature:
All activities related to production of energy


Feature:
Transmission of electricity and communications (cables)


Feature:
Renewable energy generation (wind, wave and tidal power), including infrastructure


Feature:
Research, survey and educational activities


Feature:
All activities related to physical restructuring of rivers, coastline or seabed

Theme:
Physical restructuring of rivers, coastline or seabed (water management)


Feature:
Canalisation and other watercourse modifications


Feature:
Offshore structures (other than for oil/gas/renewables)


Feature:
Restructuring of seabed morphology, including dredging and depositing of materials


Feature:
All activities related to tourism and leisure


Subject:
Structure, functions and processes of marine ecosystems


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to provision of energy


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to mediation of flows


Feature:
Mass stabilisation and control of erosion rates


Theme:
Underpinning and/or enhancing physical and intellectual interactions


Feature:
All ecosystem services underpinning physical and intellectual interactions


Feature:
Experiential use of plants, animals and land-/seascapes in different environmental settings


Feature:
Physical use of land-/seascapes in different environmental settings


Feature:
All ecosystem services underpinning spiritual, symbolic and other interactions

Theme:
Underpinning and/or enhancing spiritual, symbolic and other interactions


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to maintenance of physical, chemical and biological conditions

Theme:
Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions


Feature:
Global climate regulation by reduction of greenhouse gas concentrations

Sub-theme:
Atmospheric composition and climate regulation


Sub-theme:
Lifecycle maintenance, habitat and gene pool protection


Feature:
Maintaining Nursery Populations and Habitats


Feature:
Materials from plants, algae and animals for agricultural use


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to provision of materials


Feature:
Fibres and other materials from plants, algae and animals for direct use or processing


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to nutrition


Feature:
All ecosystem services related to mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances

Theme:
Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances


Feature:
Filtration/sequestration/storage/accumulation by micro-organisms, algae, plants, and animals


Feature:
Bio-remediation by micro-organisms, algae, plants, and animals


Feature:
Commercially exploited fish and shellfish


Feature:
Offshore circalittoral rock and biogenic reef


Feature:
All physical and hydrological characteristics


Subject:
Anthropogenic pressures on the marine environment


Feature:
Loss of, or change to, natural biological communities due to cultivation of animal or plant species


Feature:
Disturbance of species (e.g. where they breed, rest and feed) due to human presence


Feature:
Extraction of, or mortality/injury to, wild species (by commercial and recreational fishing and other activities)


Feature:
Input of genetically modified species and translocation of native species


Feature:
Input or spread of non-indigenous species


Subject:
Pressure levels and impacts in marine environment


Feature:
All pressures related to inputs of substances, litter and energy


Feature:
Input of other substances (e.g. synthetic substances, non-synthetic substances, radionuclides) – diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition, acute events


Feature:
Input of litter (solid waste matter, including micro-sized litter)


Feature:
Input of nutrients – diffuse sources, point sources, atmospheric deposition


Feature:
Input of organic matter – diffuse sources and point sources


Feature:
Input of other forms of energy (including electromagnetic fields, light and heat)


Feature:
Input of anthropogenic sound (impulsive, continuous)


Feature:
Input of water – point sources (e.g. brine)


# GESComponents

Description:
Area covered by the species (for sessile/benthic species)


Description:
Mean maximum length across all species found in research vessel surveys


Description:
Nutrient ratios (silica, nitrogen and phosphorus)


Description:
Frequency of regulatory levels being exceeded


Description:
D11C2 – Anthropogenic continuous low-frequency sound


Description:
D1C1 – Mortality rate from incidental by-catch


Description:
D1C3 - Population demographic characteristics


Description:
D1C4 - Population distributional range and pattern


Description:
D5C6 - Opportunistic macroalgae of benthic habitats


Description:
D5C7 - Macrophyte communities of benthic habitats


Description:
D5C8 - Macrofaunal communities of benthic habitats


Description:
D6C2 - Physical disturbance to the seabed


Description:
D6C3 – Adverse effects from physical disturbance


Description:
D7C1 – Permanent alteration of hydrographical conditions


Description:
D7C2 – Adverse effects from permanent alterations of hydrographical conditions


Description:
D8C3 – Significant acute pollution events


Description:
D8C4 – Adverse effect of significant acute pollution events


# IntegrationRules

Description:
If two variables do not meet the required standard, good status is not achieved.


Description:
The use of hierarchical approaches to structure indicator inclusion and group is very common. The added structure provides the ability to output intermediate CIs that aid in the interpretation of the overall CI/AI. The nesting of associated indicators into clusters greatly improves the clarity of the aggregation process. Weightings are equal for each indicator and typical of when there is not enough information on the influence of individual indicators.


Description:
Hierarchical layers and clustering of input indicators is used to structure and order the aggregation. Weightings are variable between indicators and can be allocated according to multivariate analysis, expert judgement or based on theoretical assumptions regarding value. Weights can be applied to either individual indicators or to clustered indicators.


Description:
Often hierarchically-structured and have inputs clustered by metric. Weights can be variable or equal. Calculation is undertaken with complex approaches such as summation, multiplication or bespoke formulae operations.


Description:
Use predefined statistical procedures. Commonly applied methods include Factor Analysis, Discriminate analysis and Principal Components Analysis


Description:
Combination of variables/indicators into a flat structure with no intermediate aggregation. Weightings are equal for all indicators and is atypical approach used when there is not enough information on the influence of individual indicators. This method is the most basic of quantitative aggregations, and is more common for indicator production. Averaging can be arithmetic or geometric.


Description:
Combination of variables/indicators into a flat structure with no intermediate aggregation. Weightings are variable between indicators and can be allocated according to multivariate analysis, expert judgement or based on theoretical assumptions regarding value.


Description:
All variables have to achieve good status.


Description:
‘High-level integration’ assessment results for three groups: biological indicators, hazardous substances, indicators and supporting indicators, each applying OOAO.


Description:
Spatial analysis where layers are combined using different functions to produce an integrated output.


Description:
A specific proportion of the variables have to achieve good status.


Description:
Uses specific decision rules to integrate elements into a quality assessment.


# NACECodes

Label:
Exploitation of offshore wind energy for producing electricity


Label:
Quarrying of ornamental and building stone, limestone, gypsum, chalk and slate


Label:
Operation of gravel and sand pits; mining of clays and kaolin


Label:
Support activities for petroleum and natural gas extraction


Label:
Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs


Label:
Building of ships and floating structures


Label:
Repair and maintenance of ships and boats


Label:
Construction of railways and underground railways


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Construction of utility projects for fluids


Label:
Construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications


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Construction of other civil engineering projects n.e.c.


Label:
Wholesale of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products


Label:
Wholesale of wood, construction materials and sanitary equipment


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Wholesale of hardware, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies


Label:
Wholesale of other intermediate products


Label:
Sea and coastal passenger water transport


Label:
Service activities incidental to water transportation


# Parameters

Description:
Concentration in muscle meat of fish or fishery products


Description:
Mortality rate / Mortality rate from fishing (F)


# ThresholdSources

Description:
Common Fisheries Policy - Data Collection Framework (DC-MAP)


Description:
Drinking Water Directive (80/778/EEC) as amended by Directive (98/83/EC)


Description:
Environmental Impact Assessment Directive (85/337/EEC)


Description:
Regulation on contaminants in foodstuffs (EC 1881/2006)


Description:
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean


Description:
Prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species (Regulation 1143/2014)


Description:
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas


Description:
International Maritime Organisation (MARPOL, Ballast Water Convention, Antifouling Convention)


Description:
Integrated Pollution Prevention Control Directive (96/61/EC)


Description:
UNECE Convention on long-range transboundary air pollution


Description:
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission


Description:
Directive on National Emission Ceilings for certain pollutants (2001/81/EC)


Description:
Placing of plant protection products on the market (Regulation EC/1107/2007)


Description:
Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (EC 1907/2006)


Description:
Major Accidents (Seveso) Directive (96/82/EC)


Description:
Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EEC)


# Units

Description:
Decibels reference 1 microPascal squared second


Description:
number of items per kilogram of dry weight


