Solent European Marine Sites Annual Survey
The SEMS Relevant Authorities individually monitor their area of responsibility and report on the activities that take place by completing an online survey every spring. This survey gathers details changes in activities within the SEMS and asks people to report on any impacts tthey may be having. The survey responses form the basis of the SEMS Annual Management Report.
SEMS Annual Survey 2019
This will take place from 8 March to 12 April 2019.
For reference, you can view the Annual Survey Report for 2018.
Annual Survey: Guidance Note for Relevant Authorities
Logging in and Passwords
Users need to login to access the survey. Relevant authorities will each be sent a login name and an initial password.
- Your login name and password are unique to your organisation. Please type your password directly into the box rather than copy and paste.
- Users can change the password. The password must have at least 8 characters, 2 of which must be numbers.
- After 3 failed attempts to log in you will be locked out and your account will be disabled; you can email info@solentems.org.uk to request a reset. If you forget your password you can request a new password which will be sent to the email address that you registered with SEMS.
- Once logged in, your relevant authority name ahould head up the profile.
- The survey can be found at http://survey.solentems.org.uk.
General Functions
- The survey form is all on one page, enabling you to scroll. There is a ‘Save Draft’ button at the top of the form, and one at the bottom. There is an automatic 5 hour TIMEOUT. After ‘Save Draft’, if you log out, you will be able to log back in later and view or edit your entry.
- A red asterisk * by a question indicates a mandatory entry.
Question on Activities
- The list of activities surveyed can be found at http://www.solentems.org.uk/sems/SEMS_Activities/. Please view these pages prior to completing the survey as they will help to improve the quality of responses.
- Online responses should be backed up by evidence if possible. Please state whether the evidence you are reporting is based on data collection, anecdotal or perceived changes, and whether the confidence level is high, medium or low.
- In section 1, when deciding on the level of each activity for the past 12 months, compared to the previous 12 months, there are four possible options, if a change has occurred please describe the change and record any evidence you may have to support this:
- Increase
- Decrease
- No change
- Don't know - please only use this option if you have no data on the activity being monitored.
- The key question on activities is when you will be asked whether you think it is impacting on the SEMS site. For assistance, please refer to Natural England's advice on operations that gives detailed information on activity impacts for further information. These can all be found on the designated sites system, for example Advice on Operations for Solent Maritime SAC.
Submitting
- Please submit your response on the online form. You can view or edit your response by logging back in until the survey closes.
- There is an opportunity at the end of the online survey to raise any other points or issues and upload a maximum of two documents. Any further documents should be sent separately to sems@hants.gov.uk. Web links to documents can be inserted in the relevant boxes throughout the survey.
- When the online monitoring survey has been completed, please click ‘Save Draft’ then ‘Submit’.
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Please download or print your response
. Please note the survey is reset every year so you will not be able to access your information from the previous year unless you download or print your response. - If further help is required please email sems@hants.gov.uk.
