EEA geospatial data catalogue
Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) version 6 - vector (polygons) and tabular data for public use, Jun. 2006
This metadata refer to the European inventory of nationally designated areas holding information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. This is the version 6 for public access.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2006-06-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-09-30
- Edition
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06.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2006_v06_r00
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 100 km
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2006-01-01 2006-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
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- EEA topics
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Serbia
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Cyprus
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Romania
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Lithuania
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Sweden
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Estonia
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Italy
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Latvia
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Slovenia
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France
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Slovakia
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Germany
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Bulgaria
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Finland
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Norway
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Liechtenstein
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Malta
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United Kingdom
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Hungary
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Switzerland
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Denmark
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Additional Information
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The inventory began under the CORINE programme. It is now maintained for EEA by the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity and is annually updated through Eionet. EEA provides the European inventory of nationally designated areas to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) and to Eurostat. The nationally designated areas data can also be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). The inventory is the national module of the Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) which also includes information on areas designated under European Community legislation and areas designated under international conventions. A poster describing the CDDA is available at: http://biodiversity-chm.eea.europa.eu/information/document/EEA/1082987029.
This information is from the European Common Database on Designated Areas established and managed collaboratively by the European Environment Agency, the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Council of Europe, based on data provided by national sources
Geographical coverage note: the GIS boundary data available above has much less coverage than the Access database. See the map of site boundaries.
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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SHP
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Microsoft Access (.mdb, .accdb)
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ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
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Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
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- OnLine resource
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2006_v06_r00
- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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Metadata definitions of all data tables and look-up tables.
- OnLine resource
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Database relation structure diagram (PNG image)
- OnLine resource
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QC Nationally designated areas (National - CDDA) (PDF document)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Used tools: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel Applied procedures: MDB database was created by export from SQL Server. Text fields were cleared of trailing spaces. Simple relation structure was added. Whole database was compacted. XLS, DBF and CSV files was created from MDB database tables. special features: DBF file - Ntext (Memo) fields were truncated to 255 characters before export. CSV files - text qualifier is ' " ' character, field separator is ',' character, line breaks were changed to string.
Accessible data
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Sites data table - Dbase IV format CDDA and csv format
Table contains main information (name, location, area, IUCN category etc) of each individual designated area at national level.
- List of designations by country:
CDDA_v6_designations in dbf-, csv- and excel formats
Table contains list of designations, references to laws as well as number and total area of sites per designation.
National designation type category:
CDDA_v6_desig_categories in .dbf-, csv- and excel formats
- CDDA - Microsoft Access database (6 tables):
DBaccess format
Database contains all data tables and lookup tables. Detailed table definitions are displayed in the section with individual tables.
- Site habitats table
cdda_sitehabitats_v6 in dbf-, csv-, and excel format
Table contains data on habitats and habitat cover within the site boundary of each individual designated site.
IUCN categories:
iucn_categories in csv, - and excel formats
Table contains the IUCN management categories according to the new system. IUCN (1994), Guidelines for Protected Area Management Categories: http://www.iucn.org/themes/wcpa/pubs/pdfs/iucncategories.pdf
- EUNIS habitat classification:
eunis_habitats_level4 in csv- and excel formats
Table contains EUNIS habitat classification level 1 to level. 4 If needed, any additional information can be obtained from ETC/BD or from EUNIS at http://eunis.eea.europa.eu.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ae413339-6cab-4426-bcb2-b3726c1cc56e
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Date info (Creation)
- 2023-03-31T10:58:39.166Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:08:49.172526Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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