The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the reported information for implementation of the different articles (e.g., Article 8 assessments, Article 13 measures) to specific areas of the Member State’s marine waters. Version 3.0 includes the MRUs used for the MSFD 2018 reporting on updates of Articles 8, 9 and 10. In addition to the twenty countries included in version 2.0 of the dataset (BE, CY, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, HR, IE, IT, LT, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI), this version includes three additional countries, namely BG, EL and UK, thereby providing MRUs for all 23 Member States which have marine waters. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g., Member State’s entire marine waters, WFD coastal water bodies), or subdivisions of an MSFD marine region or subregion. For the 2018 reporting, some Member States reported different (sets of) MRUs for Article 8 assessments for different MSFD Descriptors, while others used a single (set of) MRUs for all Descriptors. Further, some Member States reported MRUs which extended beyond their marine waters (e.g., as used for Regional Sea Convention and ICES assessments).
The data sets are public version released of the Marine Reporting Units (MRU) used during the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) reporting exercises. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g. region, sub-region, regional or sub-regional subdivision, Member State marine waters, WFD coastal waters, etc.),
The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the implementation of the different articles to specific marine areas. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g. region, sub-region, regional or sub-regional subdivision, Member State marine waters, WFD coastal waters, etc.), as indicated in the Good Environmental Status 2017 Decision. The present data set is the second public version released of the MRUs used during the MSFD 2018 reporting exercise on the update of Articles 8, 9 and 10. Only the MRUs of those countries that have gone through the reporting exercise by June 2020 have been included in this data set. Apart from the countries included already in version 1 of the dataset (SE, FI, EE, LV, PL, DE, DK, NL, BE, FR, ES, HR and RO), this version also includes seven more countries, namely MT, LT, IT, SI, CY, PT and IE. The data set is distributed in SHP and in INSPIRE-compliant GML format, made available also through an INSPIRE compliant ATOM service.
The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the implementation of the different articles to specific marine areas. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g. region, sub-region, regional or sub-regional subdivision, Member State marine waters, WFD coastal waters, etc.), as indicated in the Good Environmental Status 2017 Decision. The present data set is the first public version released of the MRUs used during the MSFD 2018 reporting exercise on the update of Articles 8, 9 and 10. Only the MRUs of those countries that had reported by December 2019 have been included in this data set (SE, FI, EE, LV, PL, DE, DK, NL, BE, FR, ES, HR and RO). The data set is distributed in SHP and in INSPIRE-compliant GML format through an INSPIRE compliant ATOM service.