Guidance on the monitoring of marine litter in European seas
An update to improve the harmonised monitoring of marine litter under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Technical Group on Marine Litter developed the ‘Guidance on monitoring of marine litter in European seas’ in 2013 to enable EU Member States to launch monitoring programmes for MSFD Descriptor 10: ‘no harm caused by marine litter’. The maturity of methodological protocols for marine litter monitoring has increased over the last 10 years, based on research advances and Member States’ efforts.
This document updates the previous guidance to facilitate the harmonisation of the monitoring framework for the MSFD, including protocols, recommendations, and information required to increase the comparability of data and assessments among Member States. The document comprises chapters dedicated to the protocols for monitoring marine litter across different marine environmental compartments (i.e. the coastline/beach, the surface layer of the water column, the seafloor/seabed) and types of litter (i.e. macro litter, mesolitter, microlitter, ingested litter and microlitter by biota, and entanglement with litter).
GALGANI Francois;
RUIZ OREJON SANCHEZ PASTOR Luis;
RONCHI Francesca;
TALLEC Kevin;
FISCHER Elke;
MATIDDI Marco;
ANASTASOPOULOU Aikaterini;
ANDRESMAA Eva;
ANGIOLILLO Michela;
BAKKER PAIVA Michael;
BOOTH Andy M.;
BUHHALKO Natalja;
CADIOU Bernard;
CLARO Françoise;
CONSOLI Pierpaolo;
DARMON Gaëlle;
DEUDERO Salud;
FLEET David;
FORTIBUONI Tomaso;
FOSSI Maria Cristina;
GAGO Jesus;
GERIGNY Olivia;
GIORGETTI Alessandra;
GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ Daniel;
GUSE Nils;
HASELER Mirco;
IOAKEIMIDIS Christos;
KAMMANN Ulrike;
KÜHN Susanne;
LACROIX Camille;
LIPS Inga;
LOZA Ana Liria;
MOLINA JACK Maria Eugenia;
NOREN Katja;
PAPADOYANNAKIS Michail;
PRAGNELL-RAASCH Hannah;
RINDORF Anna;
RUIZ Marta;
SETÄLÄ Outi;
SCHULZ Marcus;
SCHULTZE Martin;
SILVESTRI Cecilia;
SOEDERBERG Lone;
STOICA Elena;
STORR-PAULSEN M.;
STRAND Jakob;
VALENTE Tommaso;
VAN FRANEKER Jan A.;
VAN LOON Willem;
VIGHI Morgana;
VINCI Matteo;
VLACHOGIANNI Thomais;
VOLCKAERT Annemie;
WEIEL Stefan;
WENNEKER Barbara;
WERNER Stefanie;
ZERI Christina;
ZORZO Pilar;
HANKE Georg;
2023-12-12
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC133594
978-92-68-04093-5 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31539 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-539-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC133594,
10.2760/59137 (online),
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