GISCO - Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the world 2010, Aug. 2012

Under the law of the sea, an exclusive economic zone (EEZ) is a sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources. It stretches from the seaward edge of the state territorial sea out to 200 nautical miles from its coast. The data set has been derived from the World Maritime Boundaries v5.0 dataset from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) and integrated with the datasets "Communes 2010 – European Commission, Eurostat/GISCO", "Countries 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO", "Coastlines 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO". The data set (100K - 60M) is available to EEA due to EEA having a valid EBM v5.0 licence.

These metadata are derived from the original metadata records available at Inspire@EC.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2012-08-17
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4258_x_x_gisco-eez_2010

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
3000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
20000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
60000000
Topic category
  • Boundaries

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2010-01-01 2010-12-31
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

GEMET

  • administrative boundary

Spatial scope

Resource constraints

Use limitation

The dataset should be referred to as "Exclusive Economic Zones of the World, 2010, European Commission - Eurostat/GISCO". Access to dataset is restricted to the personnel of the European Commission and its contractors. Access to the dataset by the general public is not possible, due to intellectual property rights. Use is allowed only inside the Commission. The dataset can be used for scientific, educational or research purposes but should not be used for legal, commercial/economical (exploration of natural resources) or navigational purposes. This data set is not based on official sources. We encourage the use of the official Commission disclaimer on all publications ( http://ec.europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data. Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication: English: Maritime boundaries: © Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Coastline: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN). Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO French: Zones maritimes: © Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) (translate: coastline): © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN) Source: Commission européenne – Eurostat/GISCO German: Seegrenzen: © Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) (translate: coastline): © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN) Quelle: Europäische Kommission - Eurostat/GISCO For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the acknowledgement notice in the language of the publication must be used.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
intellectualPropertyRights

Associated resource

Association Type
Larger work citation
Metadata Reference
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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 European Boundary Map v5.0. from EuroGeographics (scale 1:100.000) (for Eurogeographics members) and the Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) 2008 from FAO (UN) (scale 1:1M and smaller). These datasets were integrated in a common repository of geometry (including EEZ boundaries) 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_2010, NUTS_2010, CNTR_2010, EEZ_2010 and COAS_2010, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the COAS_2010 dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions and boundaries). Further information on the validity and lineage is available in the database manual on the INSPIRE@EC group on CIRCABC. https://circabc.europa.eu/w/browse/bf8ae55b-a09b-4f24-a0b8-1f5784e0080c

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

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

Metadata

Metadata identifier
16c57e11-9b6d-4250-bb38-1986690079e5

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/16c57e11-9b6d-4250-bb38-1986690079e5

Date info (Creation)
2012-08-21T17:03:05Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:38:15.874101Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Spatial scope

Global


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