Marine Reporting Units used in Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 2018-2024 reporting cycle - version 1.0, Feb. 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 first 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 had reported by December 2019 have been included in this data set (SE, FI, EE, LV, PL, DE, DK, NL, BE, FR, ES, HR and RO).

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

Date (Creation): 2019-12-27

Date (Publication): 2020-02-28

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_v_4258_100_k_mru-msfd2018_p_2018-2019_v01_r00

Status: Superseded

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	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

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Keywords

GEMET

sea
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
marine environment

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Black Sea
Romania
Latvia
Sweden
Finland
Netherlands
Estonia
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Baltic Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Denmark
Poland
Belgium
Germany
Croatia
France
Spain

Spatial scope

European

INSPIRE priority data set

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

EEA topics

Seas and coasts

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Aggregate Datasetindentifier: 7ce1666b-fcdc-4cf3-91f0-96b58ad14e99

Association Type: Cross reference

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language of dataset: English

Topic category

Environment
Oceans

Begin date: 2018-10-16

End date: 2019-12-31

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:4258

Distribution format

SHP ( )
GML ( 3.2.1)

Specification

D2.8.III.11 INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units – Technical Guidelines

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/water/marine/msfd/eea_v_4258_100_k_mru-msfd2018_p_2018-2019_v01_r00/MRU2018_SHP/	MRU2018_SHP
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/water/marine/msfd/eea_v_4258_100_k_mru-msfd2018_p_2018-2019_v01_r00/MRU2018_GML/	MRU2018_GML
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/INSPIRE/GMLMarine/atomMarineReportingUnits.xml	INSPIRE compliant Atom service
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/8ee108bc-6b08-48ac-bc5a-45a5cd6b5a6c	Direct download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance 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: Yes

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 had reported by December 2019. A new version of the data set will be produced including the MRUs of the countries expected to report during 2020.