# Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848 of 17 May 2017 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 (Text with EEA relevance), Division: Criteria, including criteria elements, and methodological standards

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Retained for situations where estuarine plumes extend beyond waters designated as Transitional Waters under Directive 2000/60/EC.
Criteria elements
Criteria
Methodological standards
Pelagic broad habitat types (variable salinity, coastal, shelf and oceanic/beyond shelf), if present in the region or subregion, and other habitat types as defined in the second paragraph.
The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, may select, through regional or subregional cooperation, additional habitat types according to the criteria laid down under ‘specifications for the selection of species and habitats’.
D1C6 — Primary:
The condition of the habitat type, including its biotic and abiotic structure and its functions (e.g. its typical species composition and their relative abundance, absence of particularly sensitive or fragile species or species providing a key function, size structure of species), is not adversely affected due to anthropogenic pressures.
The Secretary of State, in consultation with the devolved policy authorities, shall establish threshold values for the condition of each habitat type, ensuring compatibility with related values set under Descriptors 2, 5 and 8, through regional or subregional cooperation.
Scale of assessment:
Subdivision of region or subregion as used for assessments of benthic broad habitat types, reflecting biogeographic differences in species composition of the habitat type.
Use of criteria:
The extent to which good environmental status has been achieved shall be expressed for each area assessed as:
(a)an estimate of the proportion and extent of each habitat type assessed that has achieved the threshold value set;
(b)a list of broad habitat types in the assessment area that were not assessed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/848/annex/part/II/division/2/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-848/annex/part-II/division-2/division-1
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