Online Test

This type of multiple choice test will be used in the exam! However, the 'Online Test' does not cover all possible questions! 65% correct answers are needed to pass the test!

Question 1

Which of the following ‘actions and tools’ belongs to SAF-step ‘Issue Identification’?

Identify financial funding opportunities for implementation
Check if a System Approach Framework is really needed
Map stakeholders and list human activities
Identify potential issues
Apply a Geographical Information System for a final spatial analysis
Map ecosystem services and stakeholder preferences

Question 2

Which of the following statements about the ‘EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)’ is correct?

The WFD ensures a water management based on river basins
Coastal water define surface waters between coastline and the national sea border
Reference conditions are a description of the biological quality elements at high status
Surface water bodies sub-divide transitional and coastal waters and are the smallest management unit of the WFD
Biological quality elements (fish, benthic, invertebrates, aquatic flora) are used to describe the good ecological status of water bodies
The programmes of measures were successfully implemented until 2015

Question 3

Which of the following statements about ICZM in Regional Seas is true?

In 2016, the Recommendations ‘Generating Information and Knowledge about the Coastal Zone’ were adopted for the Arctic Region
In the Baltic Sea Region a Recommendation on the ‘Protection of the Coastal Strip’ was adopted already in 1994
Since the EU is not a contracting party to the Bucharest Convention covering the Black Sea, a strategic action plan related to ICZM has not been adopted yet
The EU initiated a systematic description of 350 coastal management case studies from all over Europe, compiled in a joint database
In the Mediterranean, the ‘Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean’, is the first supra-national (Europe, Africa and Asia), legally-binding ICZM agreement
In 2012, the North Sea Region adopted the strategy ‘Promoting ICZM Activity within the Member States’

Question 4

Which of the following statements related to the ‘Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP)’ is correct?

The BSAP provides Maximum Allowable Inputs (MAI) of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus into the Baltic Sea
The BSAP aims at a harmonization of national environmental laws
The BSAP aims at protecting ground water and rivers
The BSAP aims at environmentally friendly maritime activities
The BSAP aims at a favourable status of Baltic Sea biodiversity
The BSAP aims at a Baltic Sea unaffected by eutrophication

Question 5

Which of the following statements about ‘Maritime Spatial Planning in practice’ (MSP) is true

MSP includes permissions to carry out activities in and uses of the sea
MSP integrates major ideas of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
MSP usually has a local (community) to regional (district, federal state) spatial scale
MSP can provide important contextual information for marine protected area management or for fisheries management
MSP is a continuing, iterative process that learns and adapts over time
MSP requires obligatory reporting to the EU MSP Platform

Question 6

Which of the following statements about ‘European Union (EU) Integrated Maritime Policy’ is true?

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) organises the way humans use the oceans
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) is a non-scientific organization responsible for the economic exploration of the sea
The Maritime Forum aims to improve communication amongst EU maritime policy stakeholders
EU Integrated Maritime Policy cross-cutting policies are e.g. blue growth, maritime spatial planning and marine data & knowledge
Regional seas, such as Baltic Sea, Black Sea or North Sea do not belong to the EU Integrated Maritime Policy cross-cutting policies but instead, have separate sea basin strategies
EU Integrated Maritime Policy largely replaced single sector-based policy