Cabinet Regulation No. 1071 of 2010 on Requirements for the Assessment of the Marine Environmental Status, Determination of a Good Marine Environmental Status and the Development of the Marine Environment Targets

The Regulation prescribes the content and type of the information to be included in the assessment of the environmental status; qualitative descriptors for determination of a good environmental status; lists of features, pressures and impacts characterising environmental status; and requirements for the development of marine environment targets and the indicators related thereto. Upon the request of the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology State authorities, local governments, State and local government capital companies, as well as other State authorities, without a payment or in accordance with the price list of paid services, shall submit thereto the available information, which is necessary for the development of a marine assessment and for the determination of marine environment targets, including geospatial information and digital maps; monitoring of surface water, air and biological diversity, as well as other types of environmental monitoring data; information which has been acquired in fulfilling the requirements prescribed in the regulatory enactments referred to in Section 13, Paragraph one of the Marine Environment Protection and Management Law; and nature protection plans for specially protected nature territories.