Testing of indicators for the marine and coastal environment in Europe Part 2: Hazardous substances

Baan, P. J. A. and Groeneveld, G. J. J. (2002) Testing of indicators for the marine and coastal environment in Europe Part 2: Hazardous substances. Technical Report. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Summary

Indicator reporting by the European Environment Agency (EEA) will be based on yearly updated information. The use of indicators facilitates major communication on the present and future state of the environment in relation to European environmental policies. Indicator testing by the European Topic Centres is the basis for the futher harmonisation of the assessment reports from the regional sea conventions and the development of a core set of indicators for EEA indicator based reporting.

This report is the second in a series of three reports on indicator testing for the marine and coastal environment and describes the process and the results of testing of potential indicators for EEA reporting by means of indentification of data availability, and data processing of a selected set of descriptive parameters for the policy issue 'hazardous substances'. The testing focused on the inputs of hazardous substances into the marine environment for potential pressure indicator, and the concentration of hazardous substances in sediment and in organisms for potential state indicator.

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