EEA geospatial data catalogue
Biogeographical regions, Europe 2016, ver. 1
The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention).
The Pannonian region of Serbia was missing in previous versions and this has been corrected in the 2016 version. Some Arctic islands which do not belong to the European part of Russia and which were erroneously included in previous versions have been removed.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-01-26
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-01-26
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_1_mio_biogeo-regions_p_2016_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-85-en
- 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
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01
- INSPIRE priority data set
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Pan-European biogeographical regions (Habitats Directive)
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Directive 92/43/EEC
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- EEA Management Plan
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2015 1.7.2
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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) and for administrative boundaries (Administrative units 2010 at country level (1:1M) including Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Oct. 2012) © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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SHP
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Spatialite
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- OnLine resource
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_1_mio_biogeo-regions_p_2016_v01_r00/
- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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Biogeographical regions
- OnLine resource
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Europe's biodiversity - biogeographical regions and seas
Report
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
- 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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Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and in 2010 the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention adopted a number of changes according to progress in the setting-up of the Emerald Network.
Changes in version 2011:
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden.
Changes in version 2015:
• Update of coast lines (the Caspian and Black Sea)
• Update Ukraine from continental to Pannonian region
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
Changes in 2015, version 2:
• Errors in the delineation of the ATL region have been corrected.
Changes in 2016, version 1:
• Correction of the lack of Pannonian region in Serbia
• Removal of some Arctic islands which do not belong to the European part of Russia
The scale varies inside the dataset. Some regions, e.g. in EU countries, are 1:1 000 000 while other regions are 1:1 000 000 or even 1:10 000 000.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c6d27566-e699-4d58-a132-bbe3fe01491b
- 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
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c6d27566-e699-4d58-a132-bbe3fe01491b
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-01-26T10:37:07Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:14:06.483236Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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