1 Conclusive Summary	2 Introduction	2.1 Background	2.2 Current established procedures	2.3 Ballast water management – decision support	3 Development proposal and general administration	3.1 Proposal To the European Commission	Top
3.2 EMBLA administration	3.3 EMBLA and its use	3.4 Terminology and definitions	4 Biodiversity - proposed Biogeographical regions, target list&hazard species list	4.1 General	4.2 Alien species and ballast water	4.3 Biogeographical regions	4.4 Species lists
5 Sampling Methodology - knowledge mismatch	5.1 Background - sampling methodology assessment	5.2 Tank configurations and devices holding water	5.3 Ballast water sampling	5.4 Studies on sampling	5.5 Evaluations of methods	5.6 Further reading	6 Transfer Prevention Techniques - a literature study
6.1 Background – Prevention technique assessment	6.2 Essential literature references	6.3 Mid-ocean exchange of ballast water	6.4 Comparisons of treatment options	7 Risk assessment Methodology – Knowledge mismatch	7.1 Introduction	7.2 Risk Acceptance Criteria	7.3 Risk Reducing Measures
7.4 Scope of the EMBLA risk matrix	7.5 Risk Assessment Methodology of EMBLA - Status 1999	7.6 Summary of Knowledge Mismatch	7.7 Content & Functionality of data structure	8 Description of EMBLA demonstration kit	8.1 Selected cases for the demonstration kit	9 Further work	9.1 Infrastructure and user Interface (IUI)
9.2 Data Processing and Analysis (DPA)	9.3 Standards and norms	9.4 Consequence assessment methodologies	10 References