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
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

luigi.falco@bip-group.com

Author

Council of Europe (CoE)

Helpdesk.reporting-bernconvention@coe.int

Owner

European Environment Agency (EEA)

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Resource provider

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

  • Land cover

  • Protected sites

  • Habitats and biotopes

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • protected area

  • natural area

  • natural areas protection
Use limitation

Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. As regards Natura 2000, there are specific terms and conditions relating to the use of downloaded boundary data within the United Kingdom. If you intend to use the UK data you must first agree to the end user licence http://www.jncc.gov.uk/page-5232. This data is provided for general information purposes only. Only the data possessed by the competent authorities of the Member States is authentic. Therefore, no rights or legal claims can be derived from the data displayed on this site.

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Language
English
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  • Environment
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EPSG:4326
Reference system identifier
ISO 19108 calendar
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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities

EMODnet Human Activities

OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map

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emeraldnetwork

OGC:WFS

 		https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?

emodnet:emeraldnetwork

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

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EMODnet_HA_Environment_Emerald_2023_20241122.zip
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Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2009-12-15
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification
Statement

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.

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Dataset
Date stamp
2024-11-25T09:21:54.192058Z
Metadata standard name

ISO19115
Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Cogea srl

luigi.falco@bip-group.com

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