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      "reference": "Nationally designated areas - European Environmental Agency (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/f60cec02-6494-4d08-b12d-17a37012cb28), accessed 19 December 2025",
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      "reference": "EEA Marine waters for analysis - European Environmental Agency (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/8586cc6f-6f93-4a19-941d-57f1f6d44bdf?activeAccordion=1083812), accessed 19 December 2025.",
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      "accessible": true,
      "date": "16/07/2021",
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      "date": "2019-12-31",
      "description": "Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMIs), 2019 edition, version 2",
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      "licence_of_use": "CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.",
      "reference": "MAPAMED, the database of MArine Protected Areas in the MEDiterranean - SPA/RAC and MedPAN (https://www.mapamed.org/), accessed 19 December 2025.",
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      "scale": "5000",
      "spatial_extent": "Mediterranean Sea",
      "storage": "https://www.mapamed.org/",
      "tag": "Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMIs) (2020)",
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      "accessible": true,
      "date": "2022-12-05",
      "description": "HELCOM MPAs",
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      "format": "Vector",
      "id": 16,
      "interoperable": true,
      "licence_of_use": "Data can be used freely given that the source (HELCOM) is cited.",
      "reference": "HELCOM MPAs (https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/d27df8c0-de86-4d13-a06d-35a8f50b16fa), accessed 19 December 2025.",
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      "format": "Vector",
      "id": 31,
      "interoperable": true,
      "licence_of_use": "License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).",
      "reference": "EEA coastline for analysis - European Environmental Agency (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/datahub/datahubitem-view/af40333f-9e94-4926-a4f0-0a787f1d2b8f?activeAccordion=), accessed 19 December 2025.",
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      "storage": "https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/9faa6ea1-372a-4826-a3c7-fb5b05e31c52",
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    "cid": "1.1.0.1.2.1",
    "comments": null,
    "copyright": "See EEA Copyright/Licence Policy: https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/. The data are provided by EEA based on data reported by the countries.",
    "definition": "Percentage of marine waters, by Member State and at EU 27 level, covered by protected areas.  This indicator includes both nationally designated protected areas and Natura 2000 sites. It also includes protected areas designated under the Regional Seas Conventions (RSC), namely the Barcelona Convention, HELCOM & OSPAR.",
    "documented": true,
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    "label": "1.2.1",
    "method": "1) Calculation of surface from the Nationally designated protected areas, Natura 2000 data  and those designated under Regional Sea Conventions eliminating double counting of areas where sites are overlapping; 2) topological controls and adjustments, other data quality controls; 3) Marine waters dataset has been harmonized for analysis purposes only. References about these sources are available in the specific dataset's section of this catalogue. The methodology and the procedure used for processing the data and calculating the marine protected areas indicator are available in the EEA indicator page (See \u201cMethodology for indicator calculation\": https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/marine-protected-areas-in-europes-seas?activeAccordion=546a7c35-9188-4d23-94ee-005d97c26f2b).",
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    "reference": "Marine protected areas in Europe's seas - European Environment Agency (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/marine-protected-areas-in-europes-seas); Methodology for indicator calculation (https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/marine-protected-areas-in-europes-seas?activeAccordion=546a7c35-9188-4d23-94ee-005d97c26f2b), accessed 19 December 2025.",
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