# 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: BALTIC SEA GEOGRAPHICAL INTERCALIBRATION GROUP RESULTS Biological Quality Element Benthic invertebrate fauna

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

Country and Type
National classification systems intercalibrated
Ecological Quality Ratios
High-good boundary
Good-moderate boundary
BC1
Finland
BBI — Finnish Brackish water Benthic Index
0,96
0,56
Sweden
BQI — Swedish multimetric biological quality index (soft sediment infauna)
0,77
0,31
BC3
Estonia
ZKI — Estonian coastal water macrozoobenthos community index
0,39
0,24
Finland
BBI — Finnish Brackish water Benthic Index
0,94
0,56
BC5
Latvia
BQI — Benthic quality index
0,87
0,61
Lithuania
BQI — Lithuanian benthic quality index
0,94
0,81
BC6
Denmark
Danish Quality Index version 2 (DKI ver2)
0,84
0,68
Sweden
BQI — Swedish multimetric biological quality index (soft sediment infauna)
0,76
0,27
BC7
Germany
MarBIT- Marine Biotic Index Tool
—
0,6
Poland
B — Macrozoobenthos BQE assessment by multimetric index
—
0,58
BC8
Denmark
Danish Quality Index version 2 (DKI ver2)
0,86
0,72
Germany
MarBIT — Marine Biotic Index Tool
0,8
0,6

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/229/annex/division/1/division/14/division/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-229/annex/division-1/division-14/division-3
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