Nationally designated areas (CDDA) for internal use - version 18, May 2020

The European inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The inventory is delivered by the Eionet partnership countries as spatial and tabular information.



The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The CDDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from the 39 European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The CDDA data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS).



This metadata refers to the internal version of the CDDA dataset version 18 (2020). EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Türkiye. The public version dataset is available with the title "Nationally designated areas (CDDA) for public access - version 18, May 2020", which is derived from this dataset.



Two versions of the dataset are provided. The full dataset ("CDDA_2020_v01_internal") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. The "CDDA_2020_v01_internal_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats.



The dataset is accompanied by the following tabular data: CDDA_2020_v01_internal_DesignatedArea.csv, which includes information on all the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries; and CDDA_2020_v01_public_DesignationType.csv, which contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-05-19
Edition

18.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_i_2019-2020_v18_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Superseded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

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2019-01-01 2020-03-15
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

  • Land use

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EEA38 (from 2020)

  • United Kingdom

GEMET

  • protected area

  • natural area

  • natural areas protection

Spatial scope
INSPIRE priority data set

  • EEA Annual Work Programme

  • Nationally designated areas - CDDA

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
public access limited according to Article 13(1)(b) of the INSPIRE Directive
Other constraints
public access limited according to Article 13(1)(h) of the INSPIRE Directive

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The dataset contains parts which are restricted by the data providers and not to be made public. EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Türkiye.

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference
Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

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

Resource lineage

Statement

In 2018 the CDDA data model and reporting mechanism was changed. The spatial data component of the reporting (referred to as Type 1 data) was aligned to the INSPIRE Protected Sites to avoid double reporting in EU Member States. The tabular data component of the reporting (referred to as Type 2) was simplified and redundant information removed following consultation with Eionet NRC Biodiversity.



The Reporting guidelines with full details on methodology are available from the CDDA reference page, http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/cdda.



The positional quality check for the spatial data was carried out using the borders of the EuroBoundaryMap - version 12 (2018) https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/802300f9-4b37-41e3-8990-813ce01a3fb3



The dataset is accompanied with a series of files and documents for download: CDDA_2020_v01_internal_DesignatedArea.csv, which includes information on all the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries (public and restricted); CDDA_2020_v01_public_DesignationType.csv, which contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe; the document CDDA_v18_2020.pdf, which explains the production process.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
0352a42a-64ee-499e-9462-fe5ede837c0c

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/0352a42a-64ee-499e-9462-fe5ede837c0c

Date info (Creation)
2021-03-18T12:51:12.197Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:34:28.258524Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Biodiversity Land use
GEMET

natural area natural areas protection protected area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Protected sites
INSPIRE priority data set

EEA Annual Work Programme Nationally designated areas - CDDA
Spatial scope

European


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