Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO), Dec. 2015

GISCO (Geographic Information System of the COmmission) is responsible for meeting the European Commission's geographical information needs at 3 levels: the European Union, its member countries, and its regions.

In addition to creating statistical and other thematic maps, GISCO manages a database of geographical information, and provides related services to the Commission. Its database contains core geographical data covering the whole of Europe, such as administrative boundaries, and thematic geospatial information, such as population grid data. Some data are available for download by the general public and may be used for non-commercial purposes. For further details and information about any forthcoming new or updated datasets, see http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata.

The datasets extracted from GISCO in its 2013 release and include in the EEA catalogue of geospatial datasets are:

+ Administrative boundaries at country level (COUNTRIES 2013) at 1:100.000 scale

+ Communes (COMMUNES 2013) at 1:100.000 scale

+ NUTS (NUTS 2013) at 1:100.000 scale

Simple

Identification info

Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4258_x_x_gisco_2013

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
20000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
3000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
60000000
Topic category
  • Boundaries

Extent

N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2010-01-01 2010-12-31

Temporal extent

Time period
2013-01-01 2013-12-31
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)

  • EFTA4

  • Moldova

  • Serbia

  • North Macedonia

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

  • World

  • Montenegro

  • Türkiye

GEMET
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Spatial scope

Resource constraints

Use limitation

Eurostat's general copyright notice and licence policy is applicable and can be consulted on

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about/policies/copyright.

Please also be aware of the European Commission's general conditions ( https://ec.europa.eu/info/legal-notice_en)



Moreover, there are specific provisions applicable to some of the datasets available for downloading.

The download and usage of these data is subject to their acceptance. Please see the respective section for more details on

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data.



The European Commission, its Executive Agencies and European Environment Agency may use the datasets under the following usage restrictions: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/GISCO/License+conditions+for+EuroGeographics+Administrative+and+Topographic+spatial+datasets. Contractors of the European Commission, its Executive Agencies and EEA can access the data after signing an agreement form. The agreement form can be requested by the responsible service from European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO ESTAT-GISCO@ec.europa.eu. Once the form has been signed, access will be provided by European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO .

Resource constraints

Access constraints
intellectualPropertyRights

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Is composed of
Metadata Reference

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

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

The dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v8.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2013) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This resulted in a common repository of geometry of which the different datasets were derived. The different scale levels were derived of generalisations of the common repository on 100K scale. This means that within each scale level the feature classes of all these datasets: COMM_2013, NUTS_2013, CNTR_2013, EEZ_2013 and COAS_2013, are fully coherent and compliant.

More information on the lineage of the different datasets can be found in their respective metadata files.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
14a2fec1-fea8-4452-bf87-969e39c942cd

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/14a2fec1-fea8-4452-bf87-969e39c942cd

Date info (Creation)
2018-04-30T08:58:54Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-11-04T09:11:18.485185Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units Statistical units
Spatial scope

European Global


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