Summary

Nationally designated marine protected area coverage

This indicator provides the percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by nationally designated protected areas. Values are calculated and provided each year by the European Environment Agency based on data reported by Member States.

Last update: 14-03-2023
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Documentation

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

Web service

Accessible: True

Spatial scope (Member States): True

Spatial scope (EU27): True

Spatial scope (global): False

Accuracy uncertainties: None

Comments: None

Storage: None

Datasets

Values

Indicator values per country
Country	Value
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

Graphs

Source: European Environment Agency

EU 27

4.5%

Values at national scale