EEA geospatial data catalogue
Biogeographical regions, Europe 2015, version 1
The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention).
The 2015 version includes updated delineations of regions in Caucasus area.
Errors in the delineation of the ATL region have been corrected in a newer release. This dataset should not be used anymore.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-03-10
- Edition
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1
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_1_mio_biogeo-regions_p_2015_v01_r00
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 10000000
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01 2015-12-31
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Bio-geographical regions
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- GEMET
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biodiversity
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- EEA topics
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Biodiversity
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Inherited license conditions from parent dataset Administrative units 2010 at country level (1:1M) including Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), Oct. 2012:
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: Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Biogeographical boundaries were obtained from the EU Member States and from the Emerald Network countries. These were merged together to produce a European wide map of the biogeographical regions independent of political boundaries. A number of the regions were updated during the work under Article 17 of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and in 2010 the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention adopted a number of changes according to progress in the setting-up of the Emerald Network.
Changes in version 2011:
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden.
Changes in version 2015:
• Update of coast lines (the Caspian and Black Sea)
• Update Ukraine from continental to Pannonian region
• Improved boundaries for the following countries: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan
The scale varies inside the dataset. Some regions, e.g. in EU countries, are 1:1 000 000 while other regions are 1:1 000 000 or even 1:10 000 000.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 29aee8f4-cc9f-4351-a255-453ba2f17fdf
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/29aee8f4-cc9f-4351-a255-453ba2f17fdf
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-08-07T13:16:28Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:42:22.285515Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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