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- For decades, European countries have shared a common vision of a marine environment with close to zero concentrations for man-made substances and near background levels for natural occurring substances. A number of these policy targets are set for 2020-2021 and the question on whether we are on track to achieve these joint policy visions for a marine environment regarding low concentrations of contaminants remain as important as ever. This draft report represents a first attempt to map contamination ‘problem areas’ and ‘non-problem areas’ at European scale, while at the same time exploring whether Europe has broken some of the worrying trends for historical, known hazardous substances.
- The draft report aims to: