Marine Reporting Units used in Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 2018-2024 reporting cycle - version 2.0, Jun. 2020

The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the implementation of the different articles to specific marine areas. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g. region, sub-region, regional or sub-regional subdivision, Member State marine waters, WFD coastal waters, etc.), as indicated in the Good Environmental Status 2017 Decision.

The present data set is the second public version released of the MRUs used during the MSFD 2018 reporting exercise on the update of Articles 8, 9 and 10. Only the MRUs of those countries that have gone through the reporting exercise by June 2020 have been included in this data set. Apart from the countries included already in version 1 of the dataset (SE, FI, EE, LV, PL, DE, DK, NL, BE, FR, ES, HR and RO), this version also includes seven more countries, namely MT, LT, IT, SI, CY, PT and IE.

The data set is distributed in SHP and in INSPIRE-compliant GML format, made available also through an INSPIRE compliant ATOM service.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-06-24
Date (Publication)
2020-06-24
Edition

02.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_4258_100_k_mru-msfd2018_i_2018-2019_v02_r00

Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2018-10-16 2020-06-30
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
GEMET

  • sea

  • marine environment

  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Latvia

  • Cyprus

  • Netherlands

  • Italy

  • Finland

  • Croatia

  • Spain

  • Baltic Sea

  • Estonia

  • Romania

  • Poland

  • Malta

  • Slovenia

  • Sweden

  • Mediterranean Sea

  • Ireland

  • Belgium

  • Denmark

  • Germany

  • Lithuania

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Black Sea

  • France

  • Portugal

Spatial scope

  • European

INSPIRE priority data set

  • Directive 2008/56/EC

  • Marine reporting units (Marine Strategy Framework Directive)

EEA topics

  • Seas and coasts

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference
Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • SHP

  • GML

OnLine resource

INSPIRE compliant Atom service

OnLine resource

Direct download

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

See the referenced specification

Pass
true

Resource lineage

Statement

The present MRUs data set is a compilation of the layers submitted by Member States (in SHP format) to the European Commission in the context of the 2018 MSFD reporting exercise (update of Articles 8, 9 and 10). The pan-European data set has been created in GML following the INSPIRE 'Area management / restriction / regulation zones and reporting units' theme data specifications (available at https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/am). For the development of the GML, a number of fields have been included and filled in with the criteria described in the document 'Development of a pan-European data set of Marine Reporting Units' (file "Documentation_MRUs_v1-1.pdf" provided with the data set). The data set has also been published as an INSPIRE-compliant ATOM web service. A shapefile format version has also been produced. The current version only includes those countries that have gone through the reporting exercise by June 2020. A new version of the data set will be produced including the MRUs of the countries expected to report during the second half of 2020.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
d1cddb75-fd90-4dc3-a17a-8c051406bf51

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/d1cddb75-fd90-4dc3-a17a-8c051406bf51

Date info (Creation)
2020-06-24T13:04:17Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:16:15.844093Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Seas and coasts
GEMET

Marine Strategy Framework Directive marine environment sea
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE priority data set

Directive 2008/56/EC Marine reporting units (Marine Strategy Framework Directive)
Spatial scope

European


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