EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Emerald Network
The dataset on Emerald Network sites was created in 2023 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. It is entirely based on spatial data from the European Environmental Agency (EEA), plus additional infos and selected EEA tabular data added as feature attributes. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The Emerald Network is an ecological network made up of Areas of Special Conservation Interest designated under Recommendation No. 16 (1989) and Resolution No. 3 (1996) of the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention. The objective of the Emerald Network is the long-term survival of the species and habitats. The Network involves all the European Union member States (the European Union contributes to the Emerald Network with its Natura 2000 sites), some non-Community States and a number of African States. This dataset cover the following countries: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. In the webmap the dataset has been filtered in order to show only marine and coastal sites. Where available each polygon has the following attributes: site code, site name, country code, country name, site type/description (A: SPA, Special Protection Areas - sites designated under the Birds Directive; B: SCIs and SACs, Sites of Community Importance and Special Areas of Conservation - sites designated under the Habitats Directive; C: where SPAs and SCIs/SACs boundaries are identical, sites are designated under both directives), site status (Proposed, Candidate or Adopted), compilation date, update date, area (ha), marine area percentage, marine/coastal location (1). For further information (e.g. biogeographic region, designation status, sites, habitats, impact, management, species and metadata) please visit the EEA's website hosting the Emerald tabular data (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/emerald-network-data-1/emerald-tabular-data). This version covers the reporting in 2023 as adopted by the Standing Committee to the Bern Convention in December 2023. As a result of a written consultation of Contracting Parties carried out between 28th June and 15th September 2023, the Emerald Network sites located on the territory of Belarus and of the Russian Federation had been suspended until further notice and removed from the Emerald Network tools.
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Date | 2023-06-26 |
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Date type | Publication: Date identifies when the resource was issued |
Date | 2024-11-22 |
Date type | Revision: Date identifies when the resource was examined or re-examined and improved or amended |
Date | 2023-06-14 |
Date type | Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence |
Unique resource identifier | EMODnet_HA_Environment_Emerald_2023_20241122 |
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Organisation name | Cogea srl |
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Electronic mail address | luigi.falco@bip-group.com |
Role | Author: Party who authored the resource |
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Organisation name | Council of Europe (CoE) |
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Electronic mail address | Helpdesk.reporting-bernconvention@coe.int |
Role | Owner: Party that owns the resource |
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Organisation name | European Environment Agency (EEA) |
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Electronic mail address | sdi@eea.europa.eu |
Role | Resource provider: Party that supplies the resource |
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natural areas protection
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Spatial representation type | Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data |
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Denominator | 1000000 |
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Language | English |
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Unique resource identifier | EPSG:4326 |
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Unique resource identifier | ISO 19108 calendar |
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Statement | Validation and quality assurance remain up to the primary data source, i.e. the European Environmental Agency (EEA). Marine and coastal sites are (i) the sites with a marine area percentage higher than 0 (as reported by the EEA) and (ii) sites 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 from the EEA coastline dataset), as by Cogea's calculation. In both cases the COAST_MAR field value=1. The EEA coastline dataset is available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-coastline-for-analysis-2. The Emerald Network aggregated database is updated annually. |
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Metadata language | English | ||||||
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Date stamp | 2024-11-25T09:21:54.192058Z | ||||||
Metadata standard name | ISO19115 | ||||||
Metadata standard version | 2003/Cor.1:2006 | ||||||
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