All official European Union website addresses are in the europa.eu domain.
See all EU institutions and bodiesThe grid is based on the recommendation at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. For each country three vector polygon grid shape files, 1, 10 and 100 km, are available. The grids cover at least country borders - plus 15km buffer - and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v7.0 -
Datasets
EEA reference grid for Europe (1km), May 2013GeopackageGDB
Temporal coverage: 2013-2019
Archived or restricted datasets
EEA reference grid for Europe (1km), May 2011SHPArchived
Temporal coverage: 2011