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.

Simple

Identification info

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Superseded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 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
10000000
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

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

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

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
EEA topics

  • Biodiversity

Resource constraints

Use limitation

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • SHP

OnLine resource

MSFD_Marine_Subregions_draft_EU_EEZ_20130614.shp

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 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

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
c3288c38-e33a-48f9-b1dc-1f79c3e3be3f

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/c3288c38-e33a-48f9-b1dc-1f79c3e3be3f

Date info (Creation)
2018-12-10T08:11:15Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:13:14.606061Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

Marine Strategy Framework Directive biodiversity ecosystem marine biodiversity marine ecosystem marine environment policy instrument protected marine zone
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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

European


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