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Legislation for: MSFD reporting on Initial Assessments (Art. 8), Good Environmental Status (Art.9), Env. targets & associated indicators (Art.10) & related reporting on geographic areas, regional cooperation and metadata.

Legal framework
Legislative instrument title	Marine Strategy Framework Directive [Art 8, Art 9, Art 10]
Sibling reporting obligations	MSFD monitoring programmes [Art. 11, 17, Art. 19 on public consultation and information and Annex V] MSFD programmes of measures including establishment of marine protected areas [Art. 13, 17, Art. 19 on public consultation and information and Annex VI] MSFD progress on implementation of programmes of measures [Art. 13, 17, 18 and Annex VI] MSFD report on Marine Region or Subregion competent authority or authorities [Art. 6,7 and Annex II] MSFD transposition in national legislation [terminated] [Art. 26, 27]
Type of obligation	Compulsory
Participating countries/territories	Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia* , Cyprus , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Malta , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , United Kingdom
Environmental issues	Biodiversity Change and Nature, Chemicals, Natural Resources, Noise, Various other issues, Water
General comments	The analyses shall take into account elements regarding transitional, coastal and marine waters covered by relevant provisions of existing Community legislation, in particular Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive), 92/43/EEC (Habitats Directive) and 79/409/EEC (Birds Directive). They shall also take into account, or use as their basis, other relevant international or regional assessments, such as those carried out jointly in the context of Regional Sea Conventions. WISE-MARINE is the formal compliance reporting tool for the Member States and the Commission on the MSFD. JRC maintains Environmental Marine Information System (EMIS) at http://emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php providing GIS web site on several physical and biological variables and indicators that are connected with marine eutrophication of European seas. The European Atlas of the Seas at http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/atlas/index_en... was developed by EC to raise awareness of Europe's oceans and seas, in the context of the EU's integrated maritime policy.
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