EEA geospatial data catalogue
Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for internal use - 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, the North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and United Kingdom.
Two versions of the dataset are provided. The "CDDA_2018_v01_internal_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. The full dataset ("CDDA_2018_v01_internal") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats.
NOTE: EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Türkiye. Therefore, this data set is available only for internal use of the European Environment Agency. The public version dataset is available with the title "Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for public access - version 16, Nov. 2018", which is derived from this dataset.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-11-12
- Edition
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16.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_i_2017-2018_v16_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- Superseded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
- 2017-01-01 2018-04-30
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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EEA39
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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The dataset contains parts which are restricted by the data providers and not to be made public. EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Türkiye.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- restricted
- Use constraints
- restricted
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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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 is explained in the document CDDA_v16_2018.pdf available together with the data set.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4326
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 571e270d-4b42-45f2-a29a-84260f6df506
- 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/571e270d-4b42-45f2-a29a-84260f6df506
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-04-01T10:09:15Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:51:36.848498Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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