Development of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) policy
CCB • July 1, 2012
The implementation of the MSFD is on-going. In July 2012, EU Member States are supposed to present their plans with:
-Initial assessment of the marine environment and whether the “Good environmental status” of its marine environment has been reached.
-Targets and indicators for the 11 marine descriptors.
CCB, Seas at Risk and the Mediterranean Information Office have developed a Handbook for NGOs on how to work with the MSFD. Factsheets related to the various marine descriptors have been developed jointly by several European environmental NGOs.
The handbook and fact-sheets are available under statements dated March & April 2012
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