Wadden Sea Monitoring

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Welcome to the Workshop Katholische
Akademie Hamburg, 27 28 January 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
- Assessment - Data Handling. Quality Status
Reports 1993 - 1999 - 2004
Stade 1997
Schiermonnikoog 2005
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Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation
Organisation
Esbjerg 2001
Senior Officials - SO Agenda of the
TWG Trilateral Working Group -
TWG Implementation of TGC Declaration Assisted by
Working Groups Trilateral Monitoring
Assessment Group -TMAG Monitoring TMAP Common
Package Assessments 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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• To bring together people involved in
• the implementation of the EU Water Framework
  Directive in the Wadden Sea and
• the Trilateral Wadden Sea Cooperation / TMAP
• to exchange information and experiences,

To deal with the Wadden Sea as an ecological
entity taking into account the Joint Declaration
of the Wadden Sea states (1982), the Esbjerg
Declaration (2001, 48-49) and the requirements
of the EU Water Framework Directive,
To establish an operational information exchange
network for future activities.
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Tasks
1. Presentation of an actual overview of the
implementation status of the WFD and the
agreements of the Trilateral Cooperation in the
Wadden Sea (Wadden Sea Plan and TMAP).
2. What are the common grounds and differences
between WFD and Trilateral Cooperation (Wadden
Sea Plan, TMAP) and how to deal with these in
future in order to avoid double work and to
support mutual benefit and synergism ?
3. How to achieve that the WFD classification
procedure and the Wadden Sea Plan target
assessment will lead to comparable
interpretations and messages to policy and
management authorities ?
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Workshop outcome
1. Agreements in great detail?
2. Issues to take home for further consideration?
3. Issues to be addressed at the next Ministerial
Conference?
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Program 27 January 2004
1315 Ten Years experiences with the Wadden Sea
Plan Targets (Folkert de Jong, CWSS)   1335
Ecological Quality Assessment in Water Framework
Directive (Jens Brøgger Jensen, EPA, Copenhagen)
1400 WFD and monitoring the Danish approach
(Lilian van der Bijl, NERI Silkeborg)   1420
Coffee Break   1450 WFD Implementation Status
in the Netherlands Case Study Ems (Floris van
Bentum, RWS)   1510 WFD Implementation Status
in Lower Saxony (Rudolf Gade, MU Hannover, Uda
Tuente NLÖ)   1530 WFD and Monitoring in the
Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea (Klaus
Koßmagk-Stephan, NPA Tönning)   1550 Coffee
Break   1620 Evaluation of the ecosystems of
the River Basin Districts by functional
indicators versus species lists (Victor de
Jonge, University of Groningen)   1650 Case
study seagrass Development of reference values
and assessment criteria. (Anja Schanz, AWI
Polar- and Marine Research, Wadden Sea Station
Sylt)   1720 1800 Discussion and points for
further discussion in the subgroups.   1900
Dinner 
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Program 28 January 2004
900 Introduction to Subgroups   930
Discussion in 3 Subgroups (Topics to be
defined at the end of the first day) Subgroup
1 Subgroup 2 Subgroup 3 1100 Coffee
Break   1130 Presentation of sub group results
and final discussion / recommendations and
follow-up work   1230 Closing