Decree implementing the Decision (EU) laying down criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and standardized methods for monitoring and assessment, and repealing Decision 2010/477/EU.

This Decree, as for the purposes of implementation of provisions contained in Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848 laying down criteria and methodological standards on good environmental status of marine waters and specifications and standardised methods for monitoring and assessment, and repealing Decision 2010/477/EU, here determines the limit values, methodological standards for assessment of the environmental state of marine water, the method of preparing more detailed methodologies for assessing the environmental state of marine waters, the types of monitoring and the method of preparing more detailed methodologies for monitoring the environmental state of marine waters, and the competent authorities for assessing and monitoring the environmental state of marine waters.
The Annex is also part of this text (Annex 1: Elements of criteria, criteria, limit values and methodological standards for assessing the environmental status of marine waters based on the environmental status of quality descriptors; Annex 2: Data on acute pollution and contaminants in fish and other seafood intended for human consumption; Annex 3: Types of monitoring, monitoring parameters and monitoring area of the environmental state of marine waters; Annex 4: Relationship between pressures and activities that cause pressures on the environmental state of marine waters, and quality descriptors that reflect pressures on the environmental state of marine waters, and quality descriptors that reflect essential characteristics of the environmental state of marine waters (response of the entire ecosystem to pressures) , including the associated parameters of monitoring the environmental condition of marine waters; Annex 5: Authorities competent for the assessment of the environmental status for individual quality criteria of the environmental status of marine waters, and authorities competent for the assessment of the environmental status of marine waters for an individual quality descriptor; Annex 6: Authorities responsible for monitoring an individual quality measure of the environmental state of sea waters, and authorities responsible for an individual type of monitoring of the environmental state of sea waters; Annex 7: Graphic representation of the monitoring areas of the environmental state of marine waters; Annex 8: Graphic representation of the assessment areas of the environmental status of marine waters).