Julia Teyssen and Michael Munk Sørensen

1. Julia Teyssen and Michael Munk Sørensen DG MARE study to support Impact Assessment on the Marine Knowledge 2020Questionnaire on the data costs related to the MSFD implementation up to 2020 Marine Knowledge 2020

2. Background and purpose of questionnaire • Objective: • One of the objectives of our study is to gather data on the costs of data in relation to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive implementation up to 2020 • Why? • Overall: • Support the development of the "Marine Knowledge 2020" initiative • Specifically: • Better understanding of which data are most costly to collection • Plans for additional collection effort • Input to the further development of for example EMODnet • All leading to cost savings in future data collection and reporting activities • How? • Questionnaire to WG DIKE members • Assess responses and estimate data costs Marine Knowledge 2020

3. Estimates of costs of data collection – results from previous studies • Previous studies in relation to marine data has estimate a total annual costs of data collection at around €1,000 million. • Estimates of the costs of implementing the MSFD done as part of the IA of the Directive suggested that it would costs: €90 million during implementation and then around €70 million per year • The previous studies on marine data has suggested that better sharing and coordination could have a large saving potential • In order to design and estimate the impacts it is important to have good estimates of the current costs and expected costs of MSFD Marine Knowledge 2020

4. Questionnaire • The submitted questionnaire • The specific purpose of this questionnaire is to collect information from the MSFD Competent Authorities regarding efforts needed until 2020 for the acquisition, management and dissemination of data to meet the requirements of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive • Key questions • What has been the costs of data for MSFD so far • Total data collection costs • Collection of existing data • New monitoring/surveying • Gaps in existing data • Where are there gaps • Which type of data has been most expensive to collect • What will be the costs up to 2020 • Costs of existing programmes • Costs of new and additional monitoring programmes Marine Knowledge 2020

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6. Preliminary findings and hypotheses • Data collection is undertaken by several institutions (public and private) • Data for the initial assessment has been based on data from many sources • There has been some additional data collection effort though mostly existing data has been used • Data related to the human activities – describing the pressures have been the most difficult to collect (as they have had to be collected from several sources) • The monitoring programme required by MSFD Article is only now been developed – costs of the programmes are therefore difficult to estimate • It would be useful to have preliminary assessments as they could provide order of magnitude estimates Marine Knowledge 2020

7. Next steps • We hope that you can reply by 22 November • We encourage you to provide expert estimates if more precise data are not available • We need to deliver a report by 3 December with results of the questionnaire and assessment • We would be happy to assist and clarify if any questions are not clear • Michael Munk Sørensen email mms@cowi.dk • Julia Teyssen email jtey@cowi.dk • Thank you very much Marine Knowledge 2020