EEA geospatial data catalogue
Nationally designated areas
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 Nationally designated areas data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS).
Two versions of the public dataset are provided. The full dataset includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. The European dataset excludes the overseas entities. The datasets are 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.
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Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-07-10
- Citation identifier
- eea_cdda_s
- Citation identifier
- DAT-24-en
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- Environment
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- 2005-01-01 2005-12-31
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- 2006-01-01 2006-12-31
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- 2007-01-01 2007-12-31
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- 2009-01-01 2009-12-31
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- 2011-01-01 2011-12-31
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- 2012-01-01 2012-12-31
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- 2012-01-01 2013-03-31
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- 2013-01-01 2014-03-15
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- 2014-01-01 2015-03-15
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- 2015-01-01 2016-03-15
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- 2016-01-01 2017-03-15
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- 2017-01-01 2018-04-30
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- 2018-01-01 2019-03-15
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- 2019-01-01 2020-03-15
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- 2020-01-01 2021-03-15
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- 2021-01-01 2022-03-15
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- 2022-01-01 2023-03-15
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- 2023-03-16 2024-03-15
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- 2023-03-16 2024-05-15
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- 2024-03-16 2025-04-01
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- 2025-03-16 2026-04-15
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Montenegro
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EFTA4
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Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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North Macedonia
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Serbia
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Albania
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EU27 (from 2020)
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EU28 (2013-2020)
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United Kingdom
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Iceland
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Liechtenstein
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Switzerland
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Norway
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Lithuania
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Sweden
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Estonia
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Malta
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Italy
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Latvia
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Portugal
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Cyprus
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Denmark
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Romania
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Slovenia
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Croatia
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Slovakia
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Germany
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Bulgaria
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France
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Hungary
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Finland
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Russian Federation (European part)
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Belgium
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Azerbaijan
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Austria
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French Southern and Antarctic Lands
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EEA38 (from 2020)
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EEA39
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- EFTA4
- EEA38 (from 2020)
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- EEA Management Plan
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2021 1.1.7
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2023 1.2.2
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2024 1.1.4
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2025 EEA/DATA/2025/051
- 2025 EEA/DATA/2025/051
- 2026 EEA/DATA/2026/034
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- EEA topics
- GEMET
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natural area
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natural areas protection
- natural area
- natural areas protection
- protected area
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protected area
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Protected sites
- Protected sites
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- INSPIRE priority data set
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Nationally designated areas - CDDA
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EEA Annual Work Programme
- Nationally designated areas - CDDA
- EEA Annual Work Programme
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Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- f60cec02-6494-4d08-b12d-17a37012cb28
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
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- Series
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-29T14:15:33.803Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-08-25T07:58:51.089296Z
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3:2018
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1.0
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