Wadden Sea Monitoring

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Welcome to the Workshop Center for Marine and
Atmospheric Sciences Hamburg, 29 30 November
2004
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Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation
Protection of the Wadden Sea as an ecological
entity
Esbjerg 2001
Ministerial Conferences Last Esbjerg 2001
Next Schiermonnikoog Nov. 2005 Wadden Sea
Plan Targets Policy - Projects TMAP Monitoring
Quality Status Reports
Stade 1997
Schiermonnikoog 2005
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Joint Declaration on the Protection of the Wadden
Sea (1982) to coordinate their activities and
measures to implement a number of international
legal instruments, amongst others, the Ramsar
Convention and the EU Bird Directive.
Ministerial Declaration, Esbjerg 2001 49 to
underline the importance of close cooperation
with regard to the Wadden Sea Area when
implementing the Water Framework Directive and,
because it is foreseen that the Wadden Sea Area
will be part of a number of adjacent River Basin
Districts for all of which separate River Basin
Management Plans have to be developed, to
establish an overview of how the trilateral
cooperation for the protection of the Wadden Sea
can assist in this task, taking into account,
inter alia, the identification of synergism and
the avoidance of duplicating work
81 to further optimize the TMAP for future
requirements, in particular with regard to the
Targets, the EU Habitats Directive and the EU
Water Framework Directive
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The expert workshop shall discuss the experiences
in the development of Wadden Sea specific
reference values for the WFD and its implication
for the Wadden Sea monitoring and management
To exchange information and experiences with the
development of reference values in the three
countries and the different River Basin
Districts,
To try to find a coherent approach for definition
of reference values for the Wadden Sea, for
coastal waters as well as for transitional
waters.
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Tasks
1. Presentation of an overview on the development
of reference values in RBDs in NL, FRG and DK  
2. What are the differences regarding reference
values between the countries/RBDs? And how must
one deal with these differences?
3. How to coordinate the further process in order
to find a coherent approach for the Wadden Sea?
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Programme

• Monday 29 November 2004
• Introduction
• Chemical water quality
• Eutrophication
• - Nutrients
• Phytoplankton
• Tuesday 30 November 2004
• Macrophytes Zoobenthos
• Saltmarshes
• Seagrass
• Blue mussel beds
• Macrozoobenthos
• Summary Follow-up

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