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ensure the protection and conservation of the marine environment, avoid its deterioration and, as far as possible, ensure the restoration of marine ecosystems in areas where they have been degraded; 3. The ad hoc measures referred to in the third subparagraph of paragraph 1 shall be included, as far as possible, in the programmes of measures. In order to achieve those objectives, it is necessary to establish a transparent and coherent legal framework which should contribute to greater coherence between the different policy areas and promote the integration of environmental concerns into other policy areas such as the Common Fisheries Policy, the Common Agricultural Policy and other relevant Community policies. The legal framework should provide a comprehensive policy framework and ensure that the measures adopted are coordinated, coherent and properly integrated into actions adopted under other Community legislation and international agreements. 2. Member States shall notify the Commission of any changes to the information submitted in accordance with paragraph 1 within six months of the entry into force of that change. Member States in the same marine region or subregion should, as a first step, carry out an analysis of the specificities and characteristics of their marine waters and the effects and pressures to which they are exposed, in order to identify the main impacts and pressures, on the one hand, and to carry out an economic and social analysis of their use and the costs of the deterioration of the marine environment, moreover. To this end, they may build on assessments already carried out under the Regional Conventions on the Law of the Sea. All the elements that make up the marine food web are present, as far as is known, in normal abundance and diversity and at a level that can ensure long-term biodiversity and the full preservation of their reproductive capacity. 3. The criteria and methodological standards to be applied by Member States in amending non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it shall be established on the basis of Annexes I and III by 15 July 2010 at the latest, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 25(3), in order to ensure coherence and to be able to compare: the extent to which good environmental status is achieved, from one marine region or subregion to another. Before proposing those criteria and standards, the Commission shall consult all interested parties, including regional conventions on the law of the sea.

2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof. The introduction into marine waters of other solid, liquid or gaseous substances resulting from their systematic and/or deliberate discharge into the marine environment, authorised in accordance with other Community acts and/or international conventions. in order to prevent its deterioration and, as far as possible, to ensure the restoration of that environment in areas where it has suffered deterioration, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale and effects of this Directive, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives. 4. This Directive shall contribute to the coherence between the different policies, agreements and legislative measures affecting the marine environment and shall aim to ensure the integration of environmental concerns in those areas. An important contribution to the achievement of good environmental status under this Directive is the establishment of marine protected areas, including those already designated and to be designated, in Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (5) — `Habitats Directive`: Council Directive 79/409/EEC of 2 April 1979 on the conservation of wild birds (6), hereinafter referred to as the `Birds Directive` and other international or regional agreements to which the European Community or the Member States concerned are parties. On the basis of those analyses, Member States should then establish a set of characteristics for their marine waters that correspond to good environmental status. To that end, provision should be made for the development of criteria and methodological standards in order to ensure consistency and to be able to compare the extent to which good environmental status is achieved from one marine region or subregion to another. These criteria and standards should be developed with the participation of all stakeholders.

Provision should also be made for the publication of programmes of measures and their updates, as well as for the submission to the Commission of interim reports describing the progress made in the implementation of those programmes. The Common Fisheries Policy should take into account the environmental impact of fisheries and the objectives of this Directive, in particular in the context of the forthcoming reform. The Commission should submit a first evaluation report on the implementation of this Directive within two years of receipt of all programmes of measures and in any event by 2019. Thereafter, the Commission`s reports should be published every six years. Selective extraction (e.g. through exploration and exploitation of living and non-living resources on the seabed and underground) 9. Member States shall notify their programmes of measures to the Commission and to any other Member State concerned within three months of their preparation. However, the Member State concerned shall adopt appropriate ad hoc measures to pursue the environmental objectives, to avoid further deterioration of the status of the marine waters concerned for the reasons referred to in points (b), (c) or (d) and to mitigate adverse effects at the level of the marine region or subregion concerned or in the marine waters of other Member States. 1. This Directive establishes a framework enabling Member States to take all necessary measures to achieve or maintain good environmental status of the marine environment by 2020 at the latest.

`marine region` means the region referred to in Article 4. Marine regions and their subregions shall be defined in order to facilitate the implementation of this Directive and shall be determined on the basis of hydrological, oceanographic and biogeographical characteristics; 2. Where action by the Community institutions is necessary, Member States shall make appropriate recommendations to the Commission and the Council on the measures to be taken in relation to the problems referred to in paragraph 1. Unless otherwise provided for in existing Community legislation, the Commission shall respond to this recommendation within six months and, where appropriate, draw on it in its proposals to the European Parliament and the Council. 1. In accordance with the relevant relevant Community legislation, Member States shall ensure that all interested parties are offered real opportunities at an early stage to participate in the implementation of this Directive by involving, as far as possible, existing management bodies or structures, including regional maritime conventions, scientific advisory bodies and regional advisory councils.