Reporting obligation for: Marine Data (ME-1)

Title	Marine Data (ME-1)
Description	Data on transitional, coastal and marine waters are collected annually through the WISE-SoE data collection process. WISE SoE was previously known as EUROWATERNET (EWN) and EIONET-Water. The data requested on transitional, coastal and marine waters include the physical characteristics of the transitional, coastal and marine water monitoring and flux stations, proxy pressures on the upstream catchment, basin and River Basin District associated with transitional and coastal waters, chemical quality data on nutrients in seawater and hazardous substances in biota, sediment and seawater, as well as data on direct discharges and riverine input loads. This reporting obligation is an EIONET Priority Data flow Reporting under this obligation is used for EEA Core set of indicators
Legislative instrument title	EEA AMP
Reporting dates and guidelines
National reporting coordinators	National Focal Points (eionet-nfp)
National reporting contacts	EIONET PCPs and NRCs for Marine and Coastal Environment (eionet-nrc-marinecoastal)
Reporting frequency	Annually
Next report due	31/10/2013
Date comments
Report to	European Environment Agency
Other clients using this reporting
Reporting guidelines	Guidelines and templates available through the Reportnet Data Dictionary [Valid since 02/08/2012]
Extra information	A formal request is sent to NFPs and NRCs every year with reference to templates to use and guidelines. The guidelines are being updated every year. Letter on WISE SoE data request 2012 is available at http://icm.eionet.europa.eu/announcements/wise_soe... The general content of reporting as agreed by Water Directors is described in the guidance document “Reporting required for assessing the state of, and trends in, the water environment at the European level”, which includes reporting sheets for several EEA SoE data flows, available at http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/nrc-eionet-freshwate...
Principle repository	CDR
Data used for	Waterbase - Transitional, coastal and marine waters
Type of information reported	Data, State of the environment