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The long-awaited interim report HELCOM CORESET Report is out soon
Measuring the Marine Environment
The ambitious aim to have a common set of core indicators for biodiversity, hazardous substances and eutrophication in the Baltic Sea is within our reach. HELCOM CORESET report presents the process for the selection of core indicators.
The interim report of the HELCOM CORESET Project presents intermediate results and expert advice by the project on the development of core indicators for biodiversity and hazardous substances. The publication provides background information, descriptions and justification to the set of proposed indicators, as well as to the setting of targets of good environmental status for those indicators.
The ultimate aim of the core indicators is to enable indicator-based follow-up of the status of the Baltic Sea marine environment, implementation of the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) and facilitation of the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in those HELCOM Contracting Parties that are also members of the EU.
Proposed core indicators will be developed into Baltic Sea countries’ common indicator reports that will be regularly updated with new data, enabling also updating of HELCOM thematic and holistic assessments, and placed on the HELCOM website. This further development will take place in the further HELCOM CORESET process until June 2013.
The proposed set of core indicators described in the interim report covers almost entirely the assessment requirements of the Baltic Sea Action Plan and the qualitative descriptors of the EU MSFD for biodiversity, eutrophication and hazardous substances. Decisions on the first set of core indicators are foreseen to be taken by HELCOM during autumn 2012.
