3362d8b1-a12e-4d1d-a0d8-1834e9db00f3 English Cogea Srl luigi.falco@bip-group.com 2025-11-06T10:37:26.556889Z ISO19115 2003/Cor.1:2006 EPSG:4326 ISO 19108 calendar EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Nationally Designated Areas 2014-10-05 2025-10-22 2014-08-31 EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2025_v01_public_20251022 The dataset on Nationally Designated Areas was created in 2014 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It includes polygons and points and it is based on the 'NatDA_2025_v01_public' both geographical and tabular datasets from the European Environmental Agency (EEA) and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The European inventory of Nationally designated areas holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The Nationally designated areas is the official source of protected area information from the 38 European member countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The NatDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on DataIntegration and Digitalisation (ETC DI). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Geographical coverage: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo (under UNSC Resolution 1244/99), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. The EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Ireland and Türkiye. In the webmap the dataset has been filtered in order to show only marine and coastal areas. Where available each polygon/point has the following main attributes: CDDA ID, country code, country name, site name, legal foundation date, national ID, area type/code (Designated Boundary or Site), IUCN category/description (Ia: Strict Nature Reserve; Ib: Wilderness Area; II: National Park; III: Natural Monument or Feature; IV: Habitat/Species Management Area; V: Protected Landscape/ Seascape; VI: Protected area with sustainable use of natural resources; Not applicable; Not assigned; Not reported. For more information please check the 'Guidelines for Applying Protected Area Management Categories' available at: https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/PAG-021.pdf), area (ha), major ecosystem type (Marine, Marine and terrestrial, Terrestrial), marine area percentage, spatial resolution (Scale 100K-250K, Scale Larger 100K, Unknown), remarks, marine/coastal location of features (1) as per Cogea's calulation. For further information please visit the EEA's website. Compared with the previous release, this one includes the public version 23.00 of the Nationally designated areas dataset published by the EEA in August 2025. Cogea Srl luigi.falco@bip-group.com European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD) etc.biodiversity@mnhn.fr Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV) nature@ec.europa.eu European Environment Agency sdi@eea.europa.eu https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3362d8b1-a12e-4d1d-a0d8-1834e9db00f3/attachments/cdda.jpg Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Land cover Protected sites Habitats and biotopes GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2012-07-20 protected area natural area natural areas protection GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1 2012-07-20 No limitations on public access Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This data was downloaded from the EMODnet Portal (https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/). The data originator is Cogea Srl. 100000 English environment -109.4377 81.8111 -54.653892942 83.7300001100001 0 https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities WWW:LINK EMODnet Human Activities EMODnet Human Activities aims to facilitate access to existing marine data on activities carried out in EU waters, by building a single entry point for geographic information on human uses of the ocean. The portal makes available information such as geographical position, spatial extent of a series of activities related to the sea, their temporal variation, time when data was provided, and attributes to indicate the intensity of each activity. The data are aggregated and presented so as to preserve personal privacy and commercially-sensitive information. The data also include a time interval so that historic as well as current activities can be included. https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? OGC:WMS cddaareas Nationally Designated Areas https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? OGC:WFS emodnet:cddaareas Nationally Designated Areas https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/3362d8b1-a12e-4d1d-a0d8-1834e9db00f3/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2025_v01_public_20251022.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD EMODnet_HA_Environment_NatDA_2025_v01_public_20251022.zip ZIP (File Geodatabase) https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? OGC:WMS cddalocations Nationally Designated Areas (Locations) https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? OGC:WFS emodnet:cddalocations Nationally Designated Areas (Locations) Esri geodatabase COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-04 See the referenced specification Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83 2009-12-15 See the referenced specification 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 2010-12-08 See the referenced specification Validation and quality assurance remain up to the primary data sources, i.e. the European Environmental Agency (EEA). Data deliveries from the Eionet, the partnership network of the EEA and its 38 member and cooperating countries. In EU Member States the implementation of INSPIRE Directive may mean that the spatial information is provided via the national or sub-national INSPIRE data providers. Marine and coastal areas are (i) the ones with a marine area percentage higher than 0 (as reported by the EEA) and/or a 'marine' ecotype (as calculated or reported by the EEA), and (ii) the ones that, even if not identified as marine by the EEA, intersect the coastline or that are within a distance of 1 km from the coastline (using a 1 km inner buffer), as by Cogea's calculation. In both cases the COAST_MAR field value=1. The coastline datasets are available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-coastline-for-analysis-2 for continental areas, and at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries20 for areas in the overseas entities.