Nationally designated areas (CDDA) for public access - version 15, Sept. 2017

The Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) is more commonly known as Nationally designated areas. It is the official source of protected area information from European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA).



The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. It is now one of the agreed Eionet priority data flows maintained by EEA with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity.



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 and United Kingdom.



EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Ireland, Romania and Türkiye.



When re-using the data, copyright is to be mentioned specifically for Estonia and for Finland: "Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2017; "©Finnish Environment Institute, 2017".

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
2017-09-18
Date (Creation)
2017-09-14
Edition

15-0

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2017_v15_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Superseded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

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2016-01-01 2017-03-15
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

GEMET

  • natural area

  • natural areas protection

  • protected area

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EFTA4

  • Serbia

  • Montenegro

  • Albania

  • Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)

  • North Macedonia

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

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).



When re-using the data, copyright is to be mentioned specifically for Estonia and for Finland: "Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2017; "©Finnish Environment Institute, 2017".

Resource constraints

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

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • SHP

  • SQLite

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_cdda-poly_p_2017_v15_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/ProtectedSites/CDDAv15_Dyna_WM/MapServer

OnLine resource

https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/ProtectedSites/CDDAv15_Dyna_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

OnLine resource

CDDA QA version 15 2017

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

Production process is explained in the document CDDA_version_15.pdf available together with the data set.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
c6d98fda-796e-40c0-b953-d716a8db1df5

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/c6d98fda-796e-40c0-b953-d716a8db1df5

Date info (Creation)
2017-12-14T08:38:40Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:14:07.475109Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Biodiversity
GEMET

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

Protected sites
Spatial scope

European


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