Report of the Dutch workshop on Cumulative Effects in relation to MSFD/GES and OSPAR/QSR2010 Utrecht, June 11-12, 2008

The OSPAR QSR2010 is intended to provide an overview of the current state of the marine environment in the OSPAR Area, and is expected to be an important source of information for the initial assessment of the MSFD. The Dutch case study will be based on an inventory of ecosystem components, activities and their consequent iimpacts which may negatively affect the ecosystem components. A matrix comprising all these elements and an indication of the relevance of their interactions has been presented in OSPAR by the United Kingdom.