Online Test

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Question 1

Which of the following statements related to the ‘EU Floods Directive’ is correct?

The Directive requires to assess if water courses and coastlines are at risk from flooding
All assessments, maps and plans prepared shall be made available to the public
The Directive requires to map the flood extent, assets and humans at risk in these areas
The Directive regulates the relationship between nature protection and flood protection (e.g. sand nourishments)
Between 1998-2009 Europe suffered 2130 major damaging floods
The Directive asks for a comprehensive economic assessment of costs and benefits of flood protection

Question 2

Which of the following facts with respect to ‘Definitions’ is true?

In the European Union, the coastal zone is defined as the zone between shoreline and 3 km inland from the coast
Territorial waters extend at most 12 nautical miles from the baseline of a coastal state
The Littoral zone extends seawards from the foreshore to some distance beyond the breaker zone
The Coastline is the line that forms the boundary between the coast and the shore
Coastal seas in Europe are the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea
In the European Union, the offshore boundary of coastal waters is one nautical mile of the baseline

Question 3

Which of the following statements related to ‘Regional Sea Conventions (RSC)’ is correct?

The Bucharest Convention is meant for the protection of the Black Sea
Helsinki Convention (HELCOM) aims at the protection of the marine environment in the Baltic Sea Area
The MARPOL Convention regulates the prevention of pollution and protection of the European Arctic Region
The OSPAR Convention is on protection of the marine environment in the in the North-East Atlantic
IMO Convention is on protection of the marine environment in the 25 European Union Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs)
The Barcelona Convention focusses on the protection of marine environment and the coastal region of the Mediterranean

Question 4

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

Intention of the BWD is to provide information to citizens about quality of their bathing waters
Escherichia coli (E. coli) are common ubiquitous bacteria in marine environment
Intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are parameters to assess the quality of bathing waters
A revised and updated BWD was adopted in 2016
Vibrions and salmonella are additional parameters to assess the quality of bathing waters
Other parameters could be taken into account, such as the presence of cyanobacteria or microalgae

Question 5

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

The EU initiated a systematic description of 350 coastal management case studies from all over Europe, compiled in a joint database
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
In 2016, the Recommendations ‘Generating Information and Knowledge about the Coastal Zone’ were adopted for the Arctic Region
In 2012, the North Sea Region adopted the strategy ‘Promoting ICZM Activity within the Member States’
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

Question 6

Which of the following statements about ‘Sustainability Indicators’ is true?

Indicator-based sustainability assessments of sustainability are required by the MSP Directive
On a local and regional level, general acceptance of sustainability indicators is low
On a local and regional level, sustainability indicators are well accepted and frequently applied
Sustainable indicators provide immediate and concrete benefits for coastal communities
In ICZM sustainability indicators have been applied to assess sustainable development and progress towards ICZM implementation
Sustainability indicators can be applied to concrete case studies to assess the success of measures