Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for public access - version 16, Nov. 2018

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).



Geographical coverage of GIS vector boundary data: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.



EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Türkiye.



Two versions of the dataset are provided. The "CDDA_2018_v01_public_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. The full dataset ("CDDA_2018_v01_public") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2018-11-12
Date (Creation)
2018-11-12
Edition

16.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2017-2018_v16_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Superseded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
2017-01-01 2018-04-30
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EFTA4

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Albania

  • Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)

  • Serbia

  • Montenegro

  • North Macedonia

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

GEMET

  • protected area

  • natural area

  • natural areas protection

Spatial scope
EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

Resource constraints

Use limitation

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

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference
Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2017-2018_v16_r00

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/ProtectedSites/CDDAv16_Dyna_WM/MapServer

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/ProtectedSites/CDDAv16_Dyna_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

CDDA v16 Documentation

OnLine resource

Dataset specification, Designated area

OnLine resource

Dataset definition, Protected sites

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

Production process is explained in the document CDDA_v16_2018.pdf available together with the data set.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
03a69768-78ef-4d6b-afac-a5e323365101

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/03a69768-78ef-4d6b-afac-a5e323365101

Date info (Creation)
2019-01-11T12:08:22Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:34:32.679164Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

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

Protected sites
Spatial scope

European


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