{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-229/annex/division-1/division-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-229/annex/division-1/division-14.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2018/229",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision (EU) 2018/229 of 12 February 2018 establishing, pursuant to Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, the values of the Member State monitoring system classifications as a result of the intercalibration exercise and repealing Commission Decision 2013/480/EU (notified under document C(2018) 696) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-229",
  "path": "annex/division/1/division/14",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Water category Coastal waters Geographical Intercalibration Group Baltic Sea",
  "text": "Description of types that have been intercalibrated\nType\nSurface salinity (psu)\nBottom salinity(psu)\nExposure\nIce days\nOther Characteristics\nBC1\n0,5 — 6 Oligohaline\n1 — 6\nExposed\n90 — 150\nSites in the Quark and the Bothnian Sea, extending to the Archipelago Sea (for phytoplankton the latter is excluded and integrated in type BC9). Influence of humic substances\nBC2\n6 — 22 Mesohaline\n2 — 6\nVery Sheltered\nLagoons\nBC3\n3 — 6 Oligohaline\n3 — 6\nSheltered\n90 — 150\nFinnish and Estonian coasts of Gulf of Finland\nBC4\n5 — 8 Lower mesohaline\n5 — 8\nSheltered\n< 90\nSites of Estonia and Latvia in the Gulf of Riga\nBC5\n6 — 8 Lower mesohaline\n6 — 12\nExposed\n< 90\nSites in the southeastern Baltic Sea along the coast of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland\nBC6\n8 — 12 Mid mesohaline\n8 — 12\nSheltered\n< 90\nSites along the Western Baltic Sea at the southern Swedish coast and the southeastern Danish coast\nBC7\n6 — 8 Mid mesohaline\n8 — 11\nExposed\n< 90\nWestern Polish coast and eastern German coast\nBC8\n13 — 18 Upper mesohaline\n18 — 23\nSheltered\n< 90\nDanish and German coasts in the Western Baltic Sea\nBC9\n3 — 6 Lower mesohaline\n3 — 6\nModerately exposed to exposed\n90 — 150\nSites in the western Gulf of Finland, Archipelago Sea and Asko archipelago (only for phytoplankton)\nCountries sharing types that have been intercalibrated:\nType BC1: Finland Sweden\nType BC2: Germany\nType BC3: Estonia, Finland\nType BC4: Estonia, Latvia\nType BC5: Latvia, Lithuania\nType BC6: Sweden, Denmark\nType BC7: Germany, Poland\nType BC8: Germany, Denmark\nType BC9: Finland, Sweden, Estonia (type only relevant for phytoplankton)",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/229/annex/division/1/division/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:11.570988+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}