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08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSENAARHUSUNIVERSITYSCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AU

REDCORE DG – PROGRESSLARS M. SVENDSEN, CHAIR OF REDCORE DG

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

STATUS OF SOME REDCORE DG ACTIVITIES

REDCORE DG held 3 meetings since PRESSURE 2-2015 + make intersessional work

Prepared draft recommendation 24/1 (air monitoring) and 26/2 (PLC water) – doc. 8/1

CART follow-up assessment

Procedures for elaborate PLC data and assessment products timely and efficient and for

accepting filled in datasets and consolidated data sets and for releasing reported PLC

data

PLC7: Next periodic assessment (based on monitoring/data collection in 2017)

HELCOM PLC6 project: Sixth Baltic Sea Pollution Load Compilation

HELCOM PLUS project: HELCOM Pollution Load User System

REDCORE DG working plan

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

CART follow-up assessment

BNI, Sweden and DCE, Denmark have together with HELCOM Secretariat answered

question raised by HOD 48-2015 and Contracting Parties after the HOD meeting

Answers send to expert in the Countries

CART follow-up data-set will be available when the assessment are published (October?)

Procedures for elaborate PLC data and assessment products timely and efficient and for accepting filled in and consolidated data sets and for releasing reported PLC data

A detailed proposal has been developed for PRESSURE 3-2015 meeting as was the view

of HOD 48-2015. But as it contains many details for considerations and will require good

time for discussion, it is postponed to PRESSURE 4-2016, where focus are on nutrient inputs.

REDCORE DG will further elaborate the proposals before PRESSURE 4-2016

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

PLANNING NEXT PERIODIC PLC ASSESSMENT

In the PLC-strategy for future deliverables PRESSURE 2-2015 support four flagship

products:

› Annual reports on annual (actual) airborne and waterborne inputs, respectively (Baltic

Sea Environmental fact sheets)

› Progress towards fulfilment of MAI (CORE Pressure Indicator on Inputs)

› Progress towards fulfilment of CART (CART follow-up assessment)

› Periodic PLC assessment

HOD 48-2015 agreed in general on the approach of future production of PLC data and

assessment products (timely and complementary to each other to meet policy needs

The frequency of different assessment product is still an open issue, among other issues

pending on the possibility to operationalize main parts of the assessment

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

It is urgent that PRESSURE 3-2015 decide on when the next periodical assessment should

take place

Recommendation 26/2 states every six year starting in 2006 (PLC5)

PLC6 is based on 2014 (Poland and Germany 2012 data), but next PLC assessment should

serve different HELCOM policy need: HELCOM CP’s members of EU will be preparing their

next generation of river management basin (WFD) in 2019/2020 for public hearing late

2020, while an update of Programme of Measures under MFSD and of PoM itself need to

be done by mid-2019 and end of 2021, respectively

By selecting 2017 as monitoring year for the PLC7 periodic assessment, assessment data

and update of MAI and CART assessments could be ready by late autumn 2019 and

server as input a background for the WFD and MFSD work

HOD 48-2016 requested CP’s to investigate their support to year 2017 for PLC7 monitoring

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

PLC-6 PROJECT

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The project implements HELCOM Recommendation 26/2 on every six year (periodical)

carrying out assessments of waterborne inputs to the Baltic Sea, quantifying natural and

anthropogenic sources and evaluating effects of different measures

PLC6 includes airborne input (Recommendation 24/1)

Will be based on air- and waterborne inputs 1995-2014, with detailed information on

sources in 2014

Serves as input for next HELCOM thematic and holistic assessment (HOLAS 2), and for the

second round of EU MFSD second round initial assessment in 2018

Original road map changed by GEAR: issues related to updating MAI and CART follow up

assessment has been advance to end of 2016 but it is very important that CP’s reports data at agreed deadlines and other deadlines during the data validation process

PLC6 8-2015 project meeting 20-21 May 2015 (SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

PLC-6 PROJECT – MAIN TASKS

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1. Develop standardized methodology to calculate uncertainties in national datasets, including methodology for filling in data gaps and missing data:

- Statistical methods on uncertainty estimation, trends analysis, estimates of changes in

time series, normalization of input data and test of target (MAI/CART) fulfilment:

..\..\PLC6\TR33_statistical report-final.pdf

- document on filling in data gaps/missing data, transboundary inputs (HELCOM LOAD)

- the new methods and principles are included in the PLC6 guidelines (done)

- arranged an international HELCOM workshop on uncertainties 18 May 2015

- arranged an international HELCOM workshop on transboundary inputs and retention in

inland surface waters (both workshops held by SLU, Uppsala, Sweden)

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

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2) Quality assurance issues

intercalibration between 17 laboratories including all HELCOM member countries (fresh-

and waste water samples). Final report published: ..\..\PLC6\TR27_interkalibration

report.pdf

3) Revision og PLC guidelines

PLC6 guidelines was finalized during summer, but with some few clarification pending.

The final PLC6 guideline will be submitted to HELCOM Secretariat this week, and then

make available at HELCOM web-site

4) National data collection and QA assurance

data collection took place in 2014 (Poland and Germany 2012). QA is ongoing in the CP’s,

but will continue during and after upload of data to the new PLC database (PLUS project)

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

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5) National data reporting

Annual templates prefilled with metadata to CP’s (11 September 2015) and metadata

updated by CP’s by 2nd October). Revised templates from data manager to CP’s send by

16 October

Deadline for reporting annual data 2014: 31 October 2015 - postponed to 10 November

Prefilled periodical templates with metadata to CP’s 9. October. CP’s to amendment/

correct by 31. October. Revised periodical templates to CP’s by 13 November

Reporting periodic data (source apportionment, inland point sources) by 31. December 2015 according to the guidelines. Very important to meet these deadlines!

6) PLC data manager

Templates has been delayed with some few weeks (se above)

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

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7) EMEP task

Nitrogen deposition data 1995-2014 (actual, normalized), source receptor matrixes (blame matrix) etc. provided by late summer/early autumn 2016, but it is delayed – draft

report will be received by 12. October – and data hopefully within few weeks

8) PLC6 report: assessment and elaboration

Will focus on source apportionment, evaluation of effects of measures on reducing inputs

from point and diffuse sources, heavy metals and issues not covered in the MAI and CART

follow-up assessments. User friendly format report e.g. as an E-book

Extended tables of contents discussed at PLC6 meeting (May 2015). Will be further

elaborated at PLC 6 9-2015 meeting (late October)

Questionnaires on sampling and analytical procedures for HM’s and on measures

implemented for reducing land-based inputs have been prepared

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

REPORTING PLC2013 DATA

Original deadline 31. October 2014

All CP’s have reported at least some parts of their 2013 data

Data from 7 CP’s verified (DE, DK, EE, LT, LV, PL and RU), from 2 CP’s partly verified

6 interviews via SKYPE (one per CP) between data manager and CP’s – some feedback

after interview needed, and there are still some data gaps from some CP’s – PL pending

The two pending CP’s for verification should be the rather easy (FI, SE)

SKYPE interview for discussion missing/questionable data good experience and efficient

REDCORE DG requested data manager to prioritize finalizing and prefilling templates for

reporting PLC 2014 data before finalizing validation of PLC 2013 data

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

HELCOM PLUS PROJECT: STATUS

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Establishing new data base platform for the PLC database

Finalized

Update the data model to comply with new requirements

Finalized, but still some minor data migration issues (transferring data and metadata from

old database to new database) are pending

Include automated quality assurance system, with 5 QA different level and marking data with quality level

QA level 1 and 2 are ready and implemented in the annual and periodical templates, and

application transferring data from annual templates to the database are developed

QA level 3 is delayed, but in good progress

QA 4 delayed (deadline this summer), but expected ready for the use in the assessment

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

HELCOM PLUS PROJECT: STATUS

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Annual reporting templates are ready including QA level 1 and 2

Periodic reporting templates are ready including QA level 1 and 2

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

REDCORE DG WORKING PLAN

Detailed plan for the next year have been elaborated – Below issues where we expect to

have documents/task on the agenda for PRESSURE 4-2015 or for approval by PRESSURE

with written procedures (or for commenting):

› Final draft of Recommendations 24/1 and 26/2

› Document on procedures for elaborate PLC data and assessment products timely and

efficient and for accepting filled in and consolidated data sets and for releasing

reported PLC data

› Status on uploading and quality assuring PLC2014 annual and periodical data

› Filled-in and consolidated PLC 6 assessment data set for approval by CP’s

› Possible inclusion of hazardous substances and phosphorus in air monitoring and in

products from EMEP

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

› Status and progress of PLC6 project

› Status and progress of PLUS project

› Status and progress on the operationalization project

Further REDCORE DG will support HOLASII regarding nutrient pressures (and HM’s if

possible), act as steering group for PLC6, PLUS projects, follow-up on MAI and CART

assessment, quality assure PLC products etc.

08 OCTOBER 2015

LARS MOESLUND SVENDSEN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

AARHUSUNIVERSITYAU

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