EMODnet Human Activities, Other Forms of Area Management, MSFD Reporting Units

The present layer compiles the marine regions and subregions listed in Article 4 of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), together with other surrounding seas of Europe. The MSFD marine regions and subregions map was developed to support DG Environment and EU Member States in their implementation of the MSFD. It represents the current state of understanding of the marine regions and subregions and is subject to amendment in light of any new information which may be produced

Date (Revision): 2026-01-09

Date (Creation): 2019-04-15

Citation identifier: EMODnet_HA_OtherFormsOfAreaManagement_MSFDReportingUnits_20260109

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Environment Agency		[email protected]	Author
Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR		[email protected]	Processor

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary (Version: Linked Data 1.0)

Management Restriction Or Regulation Zone

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Maritime boundaries

GEOSS - Societal Benefit Areas, version 1.0

Resource management

GDI-Vlaanderen Trefwoorden

Metadata GDI-Vl-conform

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations on public access

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Other constraints: Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Other constraints: This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal ( https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is CETMAR.

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Topic category

Boundaries

Reference system identifier: EPSG4326

Reference system identifier: ISO 19108 calendar

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK	https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities	EMODnet Human Activities
WWW:DOWNLOAD	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/cb26f323-b50a-4c2a-9f49-6d4bac98e49e/attachments/EMODnet_HA_OtherFormsOfAreaManagement_MSFDReportingUnits_20260109.zip	EMODnet_HA_OtherFormsOfAreaManagement_MSFDReportingUnits_20260109.zip
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms?	reportingunits
OGC:WFS	https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs?	emodnet:reportingunits

Distribution format

Name	Version
Esri geodatabase
Esri shapefile

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2008-12-04

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The polygons of Marine Reporting Units (regions and subregions) was obtained from the European Environmental Agency. The shapefile has been modified to include the area in km2 which was calculated using the projection ETRS 1989 LAEA. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted

Metadata

File identifier: cb26f323-b50a-4c2a-9f49-6d4bac98e49e XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-01-26T16:56:06.002798Z

Metadata standard name: ISO19115

Metadata standard version: 2003/Cor.1:2006

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación CETMAR		[email protected]	Point of contact

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