EEA geospatial data catalogue
Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for public access - version 17, Jun. 2019
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 full dataset ("CDDA_2019_v01_public") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. The "CDDA_2019_v01_public_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-06-04
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-06-04
- Edition
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17.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_ip_2018-2019_v17_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- Superseded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
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-01-01 2019-03-15
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Serbia
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Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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North Macedonia
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Albania
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Montenegro
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EU28 (2013-2020)
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EFTA4
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- INSPIRE priority data set
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EEA Annual Work Programme
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Nationally designated areas - CDDA
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA), Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2019, ©Finnish Environment Institute, 2018.
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Revision Of
- Language
- English
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GDB
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Geopackage
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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LAEA projection
- OnLine resource
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WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition, Protected sites
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition, Designated type
- OnLine resource
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Dataset definition, Designated area
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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Production process will be explained in an update of the document CDDA_v16_2018.pdf available in the previous version of the dataset. We are waiting for ETC/BD for this task but as we are able to publish much earlier than before because of the new reporting mechanism, the ETC/BD has not planned for the time to update the report right now. In the meantime, and for reference, the document CDDA_v16_2018.pdf corresponding to the earlier version is provided together with this dataset.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4326
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 50dd4172-ba90-4d6d-90ef-88f5d1d84795
- 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/50dd4172-ba90-4d6d-90ef-88f5d1d84795
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-06-14T05:40:21Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:50:10.589201Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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