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CEMP Guidelines for marine monitoring and assessment of beach litter.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2020)1.1. The reduction of pollution of the marine environment by macro- and microlitter is one of the great environmental challenges facing society today. 1.2. Under its draft North-East Atlantic Environment (NEAE) Strategy ... -
CEMP Guidelines: Phytoplankton monitoring. (OSPAR Agreement 2016-06).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2016)This document describes phytoplankton species composition monitoring guidelines for the OSPAR area. “Phytoplankton” is here used throughout as a simple umbrella term to encompass prokaryotes as well as eukaryotes, but is ... -
Convention-wide Practices and Procedures in relation to marine dumped chemical weapons and munitions (2004 Update).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2004)As part of a broader overview of the issue of dumped conventional and chemical munitions in the OSPAR area, in response to a request by OSPAR (OSPAR 00/20/1, §10.15), Ireland has prepared the following assessment of the ... -
Guideline for Monitoring Marine Litter on the Beaches in the OSPAR Maritime Area. Edition 1.0.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2010)A guideline for monitoring marine litter on beaches has been developed by OSPAR as a tool to collect data on litter in the marine environment. This tool has been designed to generate data on marine litter according ... -
Guidelines for the Implementation of Articles 7 and 9 of Annex II to the OSPAR Convention. (Agreement 2012-01).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2012)Procedures and criteria for determining and addressing Force Majeure situations as referred to in Article 7 of Annex II of OSPAR Convention / Procedures and criteria for determining and addressing emergency situations as ... -
JAMP Eutrophication Monitoring Guidelines: Benthos (OSPAR Agreement 2012-12).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2012)bottom macrozoobenthos) generally occur in recognisable states, depending on the substrate, depth, wave exposure and salinity etc. Macrobenthic communities are an appropriate target for monitoring since: a) an important ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator PH2 “Changes in Phytoplankton Biomass and Zooplankton Abundance”. Adopted by BDC(2) 2022, OSPAR Agreement 2019-06. Updated 2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)Plankton biomass and/or abundance in the ocean are hydro-climatic variables and as such have been demonstrated to reflect environmental changes, as illustrated by already numerous phytoplankton and zooplankton published ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator PH3 “Changes in Plankton Diversity”.Adopted by BDC(2) 2022, OSPAR Agreement 2019-07. Updated 2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)Species composition and abundance of plankton assemblages are influenced by environmental conditions and their variability, such as available light, nutrients, prey, currents and climate. As a result, plankton communities ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator: Condition of benthic habitat communities (BH2) – common approach. OSPAR Agreement 2018-06. Updated 2022/2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)These guidelines outline the monitoring and assessment requirements for the OSPAR common approach: “condition of benthic habitat communities (BH2)”. More detailed technical specifications for this indicator are in Annex ... -
OSPAR CEMP Guideline. Common indicator: PH1/FW5 Change in plankton communities. OSPAR Agreement 2018-07. Adopted by BDC(2) 2022, Update 2023.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2023)Indicators based on plankton lifeforms have been used to assess community response to sewage pollution (Charvet et al. 1998; Tett et al. 2008), anoxia (Rakocinski 2012), fishing (Bremner et al. 2004), eutrophication (HELCOM ... -
OSPAR inventory of measures to mitigate the emission and environmental impact of underwater noise (2016 update).
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2016)The 2009 JAMP Assessment on the environmental impact of underwater noise recommended amongst others that OSPAR Contracting Parties in a next step should develop guidance on measures to mitigate noise emissions and the ... -
OSPAR scoping study on best practices for the design and recycling of fishing gear as a means to reduce quantities of fishing gear found as marine litter in the North-East Atlantic.
(OSPAR Commission, London, UK, 2020)The OSPAR Convention is the mechanism by which 15 Governments and the EU cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North‐East Atlantic. In 2014, OSPAR adopted a Regional Action Plan for Marine Litter (RAP ML), ...