Nationally designated areas, 2001

The dataset contains the geographic location and size of the nationally designated areas

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Oct 12, 2011 - Nationally designated areas (National - CDDA)

European data set

List of designations by country

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Odesignate	Title - original language	nvarchar(100)	0
Title - french	Title in French	nvarchar(255)	0
Category	National designation type category	nvarchar(1)	0
Desig_abbr	National designation type code	nvarchar(5)	-1
Designate	Title in English	nvarchar(100)	0
Lawreference	Reference to the publication in Official Journal	nvarchar(255)	0
Agency		ntext(16)	0
Law	Reference to the legal text	nvarchar(255)	0
Iso3	Country ISO code	nvarchar(6)	0

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Nationally Designated Areas

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Parentis	Parent country ISO code	nvarchar(6)	0
Iso3	Country ISO code	nvarchar(6)	0
Lon	Longitude decimal degrees	float(8)	0
Sitecode1	CDDA site code (sequential number)	nvarchar(24)	0
Latmin	Latitude minutes	float(8)	0
Latns	Latitude North/South (always N)	nvarchar(2)	0
Year	Year of establishment of the site	nvarchar(8)	0
Desigabb	national designation type code	nvarchar(5)	-1
Areaname	Site Name (in principle in local language)	nvarchar(240)	0
Designat	Designation title in English	nvarchar(160)	0
Latsec	Latitude seconds	float(8)	0
Latdeg	Latitude degrees	float(8)	0
Nuts1	Nuts code	nvarchar(10)	0
Lonsec	Longitude seconds	float(8)	0
Lat	Latitude decimal degrees	float(8)	0
Londeg	Longitude degrees	float(8)	0
Sitecode	Unique site reference code	float(8)	0
Lonew	Longitude East/West (E or W)	nvarchar(2)	0
Lonmin	Longitude minutes	float(8)	0
Size	Surface area in ha.	float(8)	0
Iucncat	IUCN management category	nvarchar(8)	0

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Additional information

The inventory of nationally designated areas began under the CORINE programe. It is now maintained for EEA by the European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity and is being updated through EIONET.

Publish date:: 01 Jan 2002
Last upload:: 08 Aug 2002
Tags:: EEA owned data sets | ETC/NPB | protected area | geospatial data | Natlan
Rights:: 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: European Environment Agency.
Source:: European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity , web site: http://nature.eionet.eu.int/.
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity