Nationally designated areas for public access (vector data) - May 2024

The European inventory of Nationally designated areas holds information about protected designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The Nationally designated areas' dataset is the official source of protected area information from the 38 European countries*, members of the Eionet, to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA).



This metadata refers to the public version of the Nationally designate areas dataset version 22 (2024). The EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Ireland and Türkiye. The internal version of this dataset "Nationally designated areas for internal use - version 22, Jun. 2024", from which this dataset is derived, contains all designated areas and its access is restricted.



Two versions of the public dataset are provided. The full dataset ("NatDA_2024_v01_public") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. The "NatDA_2024_v01_public_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GPKG formats.



The dataset is accompanied by the following tabular data: NatDA_2024_v01_public_DesignatedArea.csv, which includes information on the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries for public dissemination; and NatDA_2024_v01_public_DesignationType.csv, which contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe.



* Including Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99), which designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2024-05-31
Date (Creation)
2024-05-15
Edition

22.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_natda-poly_p_2023-2024_v22_r00

Identifier

Code
10.2909/616ef48f-7196-4e30-b201-6c97808fa68a
Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2023-03-16 2024-03-15
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
EEA topics
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EEA38 (from 2020)

  • French Southern and Antarctic Lands

  • EFTA4

GEMET
Spatial scope
INSPIRE priority data set

  • EEA Annual Work Programme

  • Nationally designated areas - CDDA

Reporting obligations
EEA Management Plan

  • 2024 1.1.4

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA); Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2021; Land Burgenland, Land Kärnten, Land Niederösterreich, Land Oberösterreich, Land Salzburg, Land Steiermark, Land Tirol, Land Vorarlberg, Stadt Wien aggregated by Austrian Environment Agency.

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
source
Metadata Reference

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference
Language
English
Additional Information

The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The NatDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on Data Integration and Digitalisation (ETC DI). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS).

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • Geopackage

  • GDB

OnLine resource

GPKG and GDB format

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

File including table and field definitions

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/ProtectedSites/NatDAv22_Dyna_WM/MapServer

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/ProtectedSites/NatDAv22_Dyna_LAEA/MapServer

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/ProtectedSites/NatDAv22_Dyna_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/ProtectedSites/NatDAv22_Dyna_LAEA/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

European protected sites

web map

OnLine resource

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 data sources for this dataset are data deliveries from the Eionet, the partnership network of the EEA and its 38 member and cooperating countries. In EU Member States the implementation of INSPIRE Directive may mean that the spatial information is provided via the national or sub-national INSPIRE data providers.



The reference data used in the validation process is the EBM 2020, Jan. 2020 ( https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3275ecdb-a6c5-4ffe-875f-c0b2bfcc5786).



The dataset is accompanied with a series of files and documents for download: NatDA_2024_v01_public_DesignatedArea.csv, which includes information on the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries for public dissemination; NatDA_2024_v01_public_DesignationType.csv, which contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Metadata

Metadata identifier
616ef48f-7196-4e30-b201-6c97808fa68a

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/616ef48f-7196-4e30-b201-6c97808fa68a

Date info (Creation)
2024-05-28T06:20:48.336624Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:53:47.851337Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2024 1.1.4
EEA topics

Biodiversity Land use
GEMET

natural area natural areas protection protected area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Protected sites
INSPIRE priority data set

EEA Annual Work Programme Nationally designated areas - CDDA
Reporting obligations

Nationally designated areas (NatDA)
Spatial scope

European


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