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Nationally designated marine protected area coverage
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Indicator: Nationally designated marine protected area coverage
Tag: MAR004
Definition: Percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by nationally designated protected areas.
Unit: % of area protected under nationally designated protected areas on marine waters
Spatial coverage: EU (current composition, only continental areas and Macaronesia)
Time coverage: 2012-2021
Update frequency: Every year
DPSIR: Response
Other policies: None
Method: 1) Calculation of surface from the Nationally designated protected areas data eliminating double counting of areas where National sites are overlapping; 2) topological controls and adjustments, other data quality controls; 3) Marine areas are defined in "EEA marine assessment areas - version 3.0, Oct. 2022 " dataset. References about these sources are available in the specific dataset's section of this catalogue.
Reference: EEA, 2015, Spatial analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe's seas. EEA Technical report, 17/2015 (http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/spatial-analysis-of-marine-protected), accessed 8 March 2023. Agnesi, S., Mo, G., Annunziatellis, A., Chaniotis, P., Korpinen, S., Snoj, L., Globevnik, L., Tunesi, L., Reker, J., 2017, Spatial Analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe’s Seas II, Volume A, 2017, ed. Künitzer, A., ETC/ICM Technical Report 4/2017, Magdeburg: European Topic Centre on inland, coastal and marine waters, 41 pp.
Producer: European Environment Agency
Provider: European Environment Agency
Validated: True
Peer reviewed: False
Documented: True
Open source: False
Accessible: True
Spatial scope (Member States): True
Spatial scope (EU27): True
Spatial scope (global): False
Accuracy uncertainties: None
Comments: None
Storage: None
Datasets
Tag: CDDA
Description: Nationally designated areas (CDDA) for public access
Spatial extent: EEA38 (from 2020)
Temporal extent: 2021-2022
Date: 21/06/2022
Scale: 100000
Resolution: None
Format: tabular, vector
Version: 20
Reference: Nationally designated areas (CDDA) — European Environment Agency, (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/nationally-designated-areas-national-cdda-17) accessed 26 April 2023.
Findable: True
Accessible: True
Interoperable: True
Reusable: True
Licence of use: The dataset contains parts which are restricted by the data providers and not to be made public. EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Ireland and Turkey.
Access data policy: Public access limited according to Article 13(1)(b) of the INSPIRE Directive. Public access limited according to Article 13(1)(h) of the INSPIRE Directive.
Tag: EEA marine assessment areas
Description: EEA marine assessment areas - version 3.0, Oct. 2022
Spatial extent: Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Medterranean Sea, Northeast Atlantic Ocean
Temporal extent: 2022-2022
Date: 14/10/2022
Scale: 100000
Resolution: None
Format: vector
Version: 3
Reference: European Environment Agency, 2022 - EEA marine assessment areas - version 3.0, Oct. 2022, (https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a14375b6-13fa-44d2-9e01-f8bee5954dbb) accessed 08 March 2023.
Findable: True
Accessible: True
Interoperable: True
Reusable: True
Licence of use: 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: Directorate-General for Environment.
Access data policy: No limitation to public access
Values
Country | Value |
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Belgium | 0.2 |
Bulgaria | N/A |
Cyprus | N/A |
Germany | 35.6 |
Denmark | 1.1 |
Estonia | 17.8 |
Greece | 2.7 |
Spain | 5.0 |
Finland | 4.2 |
France | 7.2 |
Croatia | 1.2 |
Ireland | N/A |
Italy | 4.5 |
Lithuania | 18.0 |
Latvia | 15.8 |
Malta | 5.5 |
Netherlands | 23.9 |
Poland | 0.8 |
Portugal | 2.0 |
Romania | 0.2 |
Sweden | 14.9 |
Slovenia | 5.0 |
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Values at national scale