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

The spatial extent of the MPA assessment areas was defined as the marine waters surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty. Given no formal boundary of this map exists and since this limit coincides with the boundary of the maritime area (water column) submitted by EU Member States under MSFD, this dataset was based on a MSFD Region/Subregion boundary shapefile assembled in 2013 by ETC/ICM integrated with the Maritime Boundaries (version 7) from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).

This dataset has been used to create the map that shows the percentage marine protected area (MPA) coverage in Europe's regional seas and also the distance to the Convention on Biological Diversity Aichi target 11.

Date (Creation): 2017-02-28

Date (Publication): 2017-02-28

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: eea_v_3035_10_mio_mpa-assessment-areas_p_2017_v01_r00

Status: Superseded

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	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

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Keywords

GEMET

marine biodiversity
policy instrument
Marine Strategy Framework Directive
marine ecosystem
biodiversity
ecosystem
marine environment
protected marine zone

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Black Sea
Baltic Sea
Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
Mediterranean Sea
North Sea
Atlantic Ocean
EU28 (2013-2020)

Spatial scope

European

EEA topics

Biodiversity

Use limitation: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000000

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment

Begin: 2017-01-01

End: 2019-12-31

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

SHP ( 1)

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FOLDERPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_10_mio_mpa-assessment-areas_p_2017_v01_r00/	MSFD_Marine_Subregions_draft_EU_EEZ_20130614.shp
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/c3288c38-e33a-48f9-b1dc-1f79c3e3be3f	Direct download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance 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

Statement: This dataset is based on the MSFD marine regions and sub-regions dataset. As indicated in the abstract, it has been defined as the marine waters surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty. Since no formal boundary of this map exists and since this limit coincides with the boundary of the maritime area (water column) submitted by EU Member States under MSFD Articles 8, 9 and 10 in the Eionet Central Data Repository (CDR) ), the decision was taken to use the MSFD Region/Subregion boundary shapefile assembled in 2013 by ETC/ICM (ETC/ICM, 2013), based on EU Member States reported data integrated with information from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Maritime Boundaries (version 7) to delimit the MPA assessment areas

Source