The Minister of environment, land and sea protection having regard to act July 8, 1986, n. 349 on "establishment of the Ministry of the environment and rules on environmental damage"; Having regard to law no 979 December 31, 1982, containing "Provisions for the defense of the sea"; Having regard to the Legislative Decree March 31, 1998, n. 112 on "transfer of administrative functions and tasks of the State to the regions and local authorities, in the implementation of chapter I of law March 15, 1997, # 59"; Having regard to law No 61, February 8, 2006 on the "establishment of ecological protection zones beyond the outer limit of the territorial sea"; Having regard to the Legislative Decree of April 3, 2006, no. 152 on "environmental standards"; Given the organisational regulations of the Ministry of environment and protection of land and Sea referred to d.P.C.M. July 10, 2014, # 142; Having regard to Council Directive No. 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 17, 2008 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of marine environmental policy; Having regard to the Legislative Decree of October 13, 2010, n. 190, transposing Directive No 2008/56/EC, which identifies strategic actions to be implemented under marine environment in the Mediterranean region and its subregions; Visto l'art. 17 of Decree-Law June 24, 2014, as enacted by law August 11, 2014, # 116, which amended the d.lgs. # 190 of 2010; Visto l'art. 8, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, which States that "the Ministry of environment promotes and coordinates, using the initial current state environmental assessment Committee and the impact of anthropogenic activities on the marine environment, based on existing data and information, including those arising from the implementation of part three of the Legislative Decree of April 3, 2006, n. 152, as amended ", and paragraph 5, which States that" the assessment is made in time for the determination of good environmental status under art. 9 and for the definition of the environmental targets laid down in art. 10 "; Visto l'art. 9, paragraph 3, of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, which States that "the Ministry of environment, through the Committee, determines, by special decree, after consulting the Joint Conference with the requirements of good environmental status for their marine waters on the basis of qualitative descriptors in annex I and in the light of the pressures and impacts set out in annex III and in particular of the physical and chemical characteristics , habitat types, the biological features and the hydro-morphology in the tables 1 and 2 of that annex III "; Visto l'art. 10, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, which States that "on the basis of the initial assessment under art. 8, the Ministry of environment, through the Committee, shall, by special decree, after consulting the Joint Conference, the environmental targets and associated indicators in order to achieve the good environmental status, taking account of the pressures and impacts set out in table 2 of annex III and of indicative list of characteristics set out in annex IV "; Visto l'art. 11, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, which States that "on the basis of the initial assessment under art. 8, the Ministry of environment, through the Committee, shall develop and implement, by special decree, after consulting the Joint Conference, coordinated monitoring programmes for the ongoing assessment of the environmental status of marine waters, according to the environmental targets provided for in art. 10, and for updating these targets "; Considering that, pursuant to art. 4 of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, the Ministry of environment and protection of land and sea shall act as competent authorities for the coordination of the activities provided for in the decree and that the procedures for the exercise of such activity makes use of a special technical Committee, established in the Ministry of the environment by special decree, which operates without new or increased burdens on public finances; Given that the mentioned technical Committee includes all the administrations responsible for implementation of the d.lgs. # 190 of 2010, as well as all regions and a representative of the Union of Italian provinces and the National Association of Italian municipalities; Seen the Decree GAB-2011-0000160 of October 21, 2011, with which the Ministry of environment, territory and sea proceeded to establish the Technical Committee; Having regard to the order of the Minister of the environment. # 249 of October 17, 2014, published in the official journal-General series No. 261 of November 10, 2014, with whom were determined the requirements of good environmental status for the waters and defined the environmental targets in order to achieve the good environmental status, on which it was acquired to the opinion of the Joint Conference of September 25, 2014; Given that the Ministry of environment and protection of land and sea has prepared, with the technical support of the Institute for environmental protection and research (ISPRA) and with the involvement and sharing of all central Governments, regional Governments as well as national technical bodies, the document on the proposal of the structure of the monitoring activities and the formulation of indicators associated with environmental targets; Given that the Ministry of environment and protection of land and sea, in collaboration with the Institute for environmental protection and research (ISPRA) provided, in accordance with art. 16 of Legislative Decree No. 190 of 2010, to make available all information pertaining to the definition of the indicators associated with the environmental targets and monitoring programmes by posting on website specially dedicated, so that such information is subject to comments from the public; Considered that the proposed final version of all monitoring activities and the formulation of indicators associated with environmental targets has been subjected to the Technical Committee, which, at its meeting of September 24, 2014, I shared the contents; Noted therefore that it is necessary to proceed in accordance with the above criteria and regulatory requirements, to define the indicators associated with the environmental targets and to work out coordinated monitoring programmes for the ongoing assessment of the environmental status of marine waters; Acquired the approval of the Joint Conference, under art. August 28, 1997, 8 of Legislative Decree No. 281, made at its meeting of December 18, 2014;
Decrees: Art. 1 definition of indicators associated with environmental targets 1. The indicators associated with the environmental targets, in order to achieve the good environmental status, as per art. 10, paragraph 1, of legislative decree October 13, 2010, n. 190, are defined in annex I, which forms an integral part of this Decree.