Annual Meeting, June 15-16 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

WP3: Data validation and MSFD interaction

EMODnet Chemistry

Partner WP coordinator: ISPRA

Annual Meeting, June 15-16 2015, Istanbul, Turkey

QA/QC Questionnaire

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• On 20th January 2015 a QA/QC Questionnaire was requested to all partners. To be sent by emails to giordano.giorgi@isprambiente.it

It consists of two separate files: Questionnaire QA_QC_May 2014.docx QA_QC_Questionnaire seawater_biota_sediment_May 2014.xlsx

Such Questionnaire is intended to be a tool to collect information on QA/QC applied to parameters analysis and monitoring prior to data management process, so called ex-ante quality controls.

Questionnaire should be filled by data producers or data providers that are directly responsible for data collection or monitoring.

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Structure of QA/QC Questionnaire

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Questionnaire QA_QC_May 2014.docx is separated into three sections:

a) General questions of laboratory QA/QC according to ISO Guide 17025:2005 (also requested by EQS EU Directive 2008/105)

b) General to all matricesc) Specific to matrices

Sections b) and c) implies to fill tables contained into excel file QA_QC_Questionnaire seawater_biota_sediment_May 2014.xlsx.

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QA/QC Questionnaires collection: current status

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•We received 10 questionnaires•Not for all matrices there are data. Probably not all matrices are monitored?

• Very few data for Antifoulants, Pharmaceuticals, Heavy metals, Radionuclides, plastics

• General remark:

Please specify explicitly your Institute or Organization

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QA/QC and MSFD interactions: same clarifications

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•According to art. 19.3 of EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive:

Member States shall provide the Commission … with access and use rights in respect of data and information

resulting from the initial assessments … and the monitoring programmes

•Chemical monitoring programmes are also base on EU EQS Directive which requires ISO 17025

•QA/QC Questionnaire is related to data production and chemical analytical methods implementation not on data collection or aggregation

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QA/QC Questionnaire planned actions

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•Urge to obtain QA/QC Questionnaires by other partners. Also negative response is useful, i.e. no such information is available

•QA/QC Questionnaires info is crucial for use of data for MSFD implementation. Quality compliant to EQS Directive is a pre-requisite

•How to use such information in SeaDataNet? Probably QF is not enough

•Last remark: for MSFD elaboration “0 values” have to be discarded or used only as an indication for trend analysis.