Predominant Pressures and Impacts

The report on predominant pressures and impacts describes human activity in the coastal area and at sea and lists the direct and indirect pressures and impacts caused by these activities. Various activities can cause physical losses in habitats, including physical damage to the seabed, environmental pressures with noise and waste, contamination by hazardous substances and nutrients and biological pressures. Pictured below is the connection between the descriptors and the elements discussed in the chapter on pressures and impacts.

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Essential Characteristics of Marine Waters

The analysis of the essential environmental features and characteristics of the relevant waters is based on the indicative lists of elements covering the physical and chemical features, the habitat types, the biological features and the hydromorphology. The first analysis describes the initial state of the marine environment and serves as a proposal for selecting the characteristics that best describe good marine environment status. In agreement with other Adriatic and Mediterranean countries, this proposal will be used to select the characteristics for which regular monitoring will be set up.

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Management of Marine Environments

The Marine Division prepares expert groundwork for the Marine Environment Management Plan (MEMP) in accordance with the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (Directive 2008/56/EC) for the contracting authority, the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning. In the preparation of expert groundwork, the IWRS has the roles of coordinator (of activities and content), of creator of various professional content and of designer of data layers for reporting to the Commission.

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BeWater (FP7)

The BeWater project is being implemented under the 7th Framework Programme of the European Union as part of the Science in Society initiative. The BeWater project promotes dialogue and collaboration between science and society for sustainable water management and adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean.

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Monitoring and Assessment in the EU Directive on Bathing Water Quality (2006/7/EC) – Guidance for Member States

The IWRS is participating in the four-year Framework Service Contract for Support to the Implementation of the Water Industry Directives ENV.D.2/FRA/2012/0013 that it entered into on September 2012 and which covers the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (91/271/EC), the Drinking Water Directive (98/83/EC) and the Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC). The...

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SedAlp

The SedAlp project is funded from the Alpine Space Programme (part of European Territorial Cooperation objective) within the framework of Priority 3: Environment and Risk Prevention. The consortium of the SedAlp project includes partners from five Alpine countries who pushed for more integrated planning to address the issue of sediment...