# 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), Division: Water category Coastal waters Geographical Intercalibration Group Baltic Sea Extent: E+W+S+N.I. Description of types that have been intercalibrated Type Surface salinity (psu) Bottom salinity(psu) Exposure Ice days Other Characteristics BC1 0,5 — 6 Oligohaline 1 — 6 Exposed 90 — 150 Sites 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 BC2 6 — 22 Mesohaline 2 — 6 Very Sheltered Lagoons BC3 3 — 6 Oligohaline 3 — 6 Sheltered 90 — 150 Finnish and Estonian coasts of Gulf of Finland BC4 5 — 8 Lower mesohaline 5 — 8 Sheltered < 90 Sites of Estonia and Latvia in the Gulf of Riga BC5 6 — 8 Lower mesohaline 6 — 12 Exposed < 90 Sites in the southeastern Baltic Sea along the coast of Latvia, Lithuania and Poland BC6 8 — 12 Mid mesohaline 8 — 12 Sheltered < 90 Sites along the Western Baltic Sea at the southern Swedish coast and the southeastern Danish coast BC7 6 — 8 Mid mesohaline 8 — 11 Exposed < 90 Western Polish coast and eastern German coast BC8 13 — 18 Upper mesohaline 18 — 23 Sheltered < 90 Danish and German coasts in the Western Baltic Sea BC9 3 — 6 Lower mesohaline 3 — 6 Moderately exposed to exposed 90 — 150 Sites in the western Gulf of Finland, Archipelago Sea and Asko archipelago (only for phytoplankton) Countries sharing types that have been intercalibrated: Type BC1: Finland Sweden Type BC2: Germany Type BC3: Estonia, Finland Type BC4: Estonia, Latvia Type BC5: Latvia, Lithuania Type BC6: Sweden, Denmark Type BC7: Germany, Poland Type BC8: Germany, Denmark Type BC9: Finland, Sweden, Estonia (type only relevant for phytoplankton) --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/229/annex/division/1/division/14 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-229/annex/division-1/division-14 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.