EEA geospatial data catalogue
Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in EEA marine assessment areas
Marine protected areas are geographically distinct zones for safeguarding biodiversity, maintaining marine ecosystem health and the supply of ecosystem services. Marine protected areas operate at various scales and cover a range of protection levels and conservation objectives.
The spatial extent of the MPA assessment areas is defined as the marine waters surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-10
- Citation identifier
- eea_marine-protected-areas_s
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Oceans
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2019-01-01 2019-12-31
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-01-01 2021-12-31
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2021-01-01 2022-03-15
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Mediterranean Sea
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Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
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Adriatic Sea
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Bay of Biscay
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Celtic Sea
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Ionian Sea
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Mediterranean Sea, Western Basin
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Baltic Sea
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Black Sea
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Aegean Sea
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Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Is composed of
- Metadata Reference
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 5e4aec6c-a05c-4bbf-9ccf-7b477cdaa2ef
- 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
- Series
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-29T14:52:00.207Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:53:09.515785Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3:2018
- Edition
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1.0
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