Marine Protected Areas (MPA) assessment areas buffer zones - version 1, Feb. 2017

The present dataset includes three buffer zones used to calculate statistics on Marine Protected Areas coverage in EU's marine waters. The three buffer zones layers correspond to "Near shore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (0-1 nautical miles)", "Territorial MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (1-12 nautical miles)" and "Offshore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (beyond 12 nautical miles to the edge of EU waters)".

The dataset is based on the "Marine protected assessment areas" created in the context of the work published in the EEA Briefing No 13/2018 "Designed to conserve Europe's marine life, marine protected areas are a globally recognised tool for managing and enhancing our marine ecosystems", available on https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/marine-protected-areas.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2017-02-28
Date (Publication)
2020-05-22
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_mpa-assessment-areas-buffers_p_2017_v01_r00

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Superseded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
  • Oceans
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2017-01-01 2019-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

GEMET

  • marine environment

  • marine ecosystem

  • Marine Strategy Framework Directive

  • policy instrument

  • region

  • marine conservation area

  • ecosystem

  • biodiversity

  • marine biodiversity

  • sea water protection

  • protected marine zone

  • environmental policy

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Mediterranean Sea

  • Atlantic Ocean

  • North Sea

  • Baltic Sea

  • Black Sea

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

Spatial scope
EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

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).

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_mpa-assessment-areas-buffers_p_2017_v01_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

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

This dataset is based on the MPA assessment areas and the coastline for analysis layers. This dataset contains three buffer zones layers, which correspond to "Near shore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (0-1 nautical miles)", "Territorial MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (1-12 nautical miles)" and "Offshore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (beyond 12 nautical miles to the edge of EU waters)" split by EU MSFD regions/subregions. The buffer zones were calculated using the coastline layer as a reference, which was then intersected with the assessment areas.

The delineation of the MPAs assessment areas were done based on the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) regions and subregions dataset and the EU Member States marine waters reported to EEA's Reportnet Central Data Repository (CDR) under the MSFD.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
a2f869fa-4ef8-47eb-9013-2ca05fda4928

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/catalogue/srv/api/records/a2f869fa-4ef8-47eb-9013-2ca05fda4928

Date info (Creation)
2020-06-25T12:15:38Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:06:40.171918Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

Marine Strategy Framework Directive biodiversity ecosystem environmental policy marine biodiversity marine conservation area marine ecosystem marine environment policy instrument protected marine zone region sea water protection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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

European


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