EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Nationally Designated Areas

The dataset on Nationally Designated Areas was created in 2014 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It includes polygons and points and it is based on the 'NatDA_2024_v01_public' data from the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The European inventory of Nationally designated areas holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The Nationally designated areas is the official source of protected area information from the 38 European member countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The dataset is accompanied by tabular data which 1) includes information on the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries for public dissemination; and 2) contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe. The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The NatDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on DataIntegration and Digitalisation (ETC DI). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Geographical coverage: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo (under UNSC Resolution 1244/99), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Ireland and Türkiye. In the webmap the dataset has been filtered in order to show only marine and coastal areas. Where available each polygon/point has the following main attributes: CDDA ID, country code, country name, site name, legal foundation date, national ID, area type/code (Designated Boundary or Site), IUCN category/description (Ia: Strict Nature Reserve; Ib: Wilderness Area; II: National Park; III: Natural Monument or Feature; IV: Habitat/Species Management Area; V: Protected Landscape/ Seascape; VI: Protected area with sustainable use of natural resources; Not applicable; Not assigned; Not reported), area (ha), major ecosystem type (Marine, Marine and terrestrial, Terrestrial), marine area percentage, spatial resolution (Scale 100K-250K, Scale Larger 100K, Unknown), remarks, marine/coastal location of features (1) as per Cogea's calulation. For further information please visit the EEA's website. Compared with the previous release, this one includes the public version 22 of the Nationally designated areas dataset published by the EEA in May 2024.

Date (Publication): 2014-10-05

Date (Revision): 2024-09-06

Date (Creation): 2014-08-31

Citation identifier: EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2024_v01_public_20240906

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Cogea srl	luigi.falco@bip-group.com	Author
European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD)	etc.biodiversity@mnhn.fr	Resource provider
Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)	nature@ec.europa.eu	Owner
European Environment Agency	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 the EEA) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA); Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2019; ©Finnish Environment Institute, 2018; Land Burgenland, Land Kärnten, Land Niederösterreich, Land Oberösterreich, Land Salzburg, Land Steiermark, Land Tirol, Land Vorarlberg, Stadt Wien aggregated by Austrian Environment Agency.

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Denominator: 100000

Language: English

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Environment

Reference system identifier: EPSG:4326

Reference system identifier: ISO 19108 calendar

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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	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	cddaareas
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:cddaareas
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3362d8b1-a12e-4d1d-a0d8-1834e9db00f3/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2024_v01_public_20240906.zip	EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2024_v01_public_20240906.zip
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	cddalocations
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:cddalocations

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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 sources, i.e. the European Environmental Agency (EEA). Data deliveries from the Eionet, the partnership network of the EEA and its 38 member and cooperating countries. In EU Member States the implementation of INSPIRE Directive may mean that the spatial information is provided via the national or sub-national INSPIRE data providers. Marine and coastal areas are (i) the ones with a marine area percentage higher than 0 (as reported by the EEA) and/or a 'marine' ecotype (as calculated or reported by the EEA), and (ii) the ones 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), as by Cogea's calculation. In both cases the COAST_MAR field value=1. The coastline datasets are available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-coastline-for-analysis-2 for continental areas, at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries20 for areas in the overseas entities.

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File identifier: 3362d8b1-a12e-4d1d-a0d8-1834e9db00f3 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-10-11T09:50:50.648803Z

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	Point of contact

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