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For coastal and transitional waters the consistency between the reported pollution pressures and the ecological status or potential is less clear. In some areas the ecological status or potential in these water categories is worse than what is suggested by the pollution pressures, e.g. in southern Sweden and Poland, which can be explained by hydromorphological or other pressures, as well as by pressures coming from outside the EU. However, in other areas the ecological status or potential is better than what is suggested by the pollution pressures, e.g. in Scotland, Brittany in France, northern coast of Spain and most of Italy. The reason can be that the pollution pressures are rapidly diluted in large, exposed coastal water bodies in these areas and therefore have less effect on their ecological status. However, also reporting mistakes and methodological artifacts may contribute to these inconsistencies.