EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Emerald Network
The dataset on Emerald Network sites was created in 2023 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. It is entirely based on spatial data from the European Environmental Agency (EEA), plus additional infos and selected EEA tabular data added as feature attributes. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The Emerald Network is an ecological network made up of Areas of Special Conservation Interest designated under Recommendation No. 16 (1989) and Resolution No. 3 (1996) of the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention. The objective of the Emerald Network is the long-term survival of the species and habitats. The Network involves all the European Union member States (the European Union contributes to the Emerald Network with its Natura 2000 sites), some non-Community States and a number of African States. This dataset cover the following countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. In the webmap the dataset has been filtered in order to show only marine and coastal sites. Where available each polygon has the following attributes: site code, site name, country code, country name, site type/description (A: SPA, Special Protection Areas - sites designated under the Birds Directive; B: SCIs and SACs, Sites of Community Importance and Special Areas of Conservation - sites designated under the Habitats Directive; C: where SPAs and SCIs/SACs boundaries are identical, sites are designated under both directives), site status (Proposed, Candidate or Adopted), compilation date, update date, area (ha), marine area percentage, marine/coastal location (1). For further information (e.g. biogeographic region, designation status, sites, habitats, impact, management, species and metadata) please visit the EEA's website hosting the Emerald tabular data ( https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/emerald-network-data-1/emerald-tabular-data). This version covers the reporting in 2023 as adopted by the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention in December 2023. As a result of a written consultation of Contracting Parties carried out between 28th June and 15th September 2023, the Emerald Network sites located on the territory of Belarus and of the Russian Federation had been suspended until further notice and removed from the Emerald Network tools.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2023-06-26
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-11-22
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-06-14
- Citation identifier
- EMODnet_HA_Environment_Emerald_2023_20241122
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Cogea Srl
Author Council of Europe (CoE)
Owner European Environment Agency (EEA)
Resource provider
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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Land cover
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Protected sites
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Habitats and biotopes
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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protected area
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natural area
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natural areas protection
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- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
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- Other constraints
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Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal ( https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is Cogea Srl.
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Reference system identifier
- ISO 19108 calendar
- Transfer size
- 0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK
https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities EMODnet Human Activities
OGC:WMS
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? emeraldnetwork
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? emodnet:emeraldnetwork
WWW:DOWNLOAD
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1d8a452f-3d8f-4b4b-8154-51cb09d23265/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Environment_Emerald_2023_20241122.zip EMODnet_HA_Environment_Emerald_2023_20241122.zip
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Name Version Esri geodatabase gco:nilReason="unknown"> Esri shapefile gco:nilReason="unknown">
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-12-04
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-12-15
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Statement
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Validation and quality assurance remain up to the primary data source, i.e. the European Environmental Agency (EEA). Marine and coastal sites are (i) the sites with a marine area percentage higher than 0 (as reported by the EEA) and (ii) sites that, even if not identified as marine by the EEA, intersect the coastline or that are within a distance of 1 km from the coastline (using a 1 km inner buffer from the EEA coastline dataset), as by Cogea's calculation. In both cases the COAST_MAR field value=1. The EEA coastline dataset is available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-coastline-for-analysis-2. The Emerald Network aggregated database is updated annually.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 1d8a452f-3d8f-4b4b-8154-51cb09d23265 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-09-03T08:16:32.339123Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO19115
- Metadata standard version
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2003/Cor.1:2006
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Cogea Srl
Point of contact
Overviews
Spatial extent
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