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      "access_data_policy": "No limitations to public access",
      "accessible": true,
      "date": "2024-05-31",
      "description": "Nationally designated areas for public access (vector data) - May 2024",
      "findable": true,
      "format": "Vector",
      "id": 1,
      "interoperable": 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.\n\nLicense CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA); Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2021; Land Burgenland, Land K\u00e4rnten, Land Nieder\u00f6sterreich, Land Ober\u00f6sterreich, Land Salzburg, Land Steiermark, Land Tirol, Land Vorarlberg, Stadt Wien aggregated by Austrian Environment Agency.",
      "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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      "description": "EEA marine assessment areas - version 3.0, Oct. 2022",
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      "interoperable": 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.",
      "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 19 December 2025.",
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      "scale": "100000",
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    "cid": "1.1.0.1.2.3",
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    "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.",
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