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The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires European member states to develop strategies for their marine waters leading to programs of measures that achieve or maintain good environmental status (GES) in all European seas by 2020. An essential step toward reaching GES is the establishment of monitoring programs, enabling the state of marine waters to be assessed on a regular basis. A register for impulsive noise-generating activities would enable assessment of their cumulative impacts on wide temporal and spatial scales; monitoring of ambient noise would provide essential insight into current levels and any trend in European waters.
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The Technical Subgroup (TSG) Noise was installed by the European Commission and DG Environment, with coordination on behalf of DG Environment by Leo de Vrees. TSG Noise was supported by Maria Ferreira and Marije Siemensma, Arcadis and Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC), under Framework Contract ENV.D.2/FRA/2012/0025.
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Dekeling, R. et al. (2016). The European Marine Strategy: Noise Monitoring in European Marine Waters from 2014. In: Popper, A., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 875. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_24
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