Nationally designated areas, 2002-2003

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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Law	Reference to the legal text	ntext(16)	0
Lawreference	Reference to the publication in Official Journal	ntext(16)	0
Agency	Address of the administrative authority responsible for this designation	ntext(16)	0
Odesignate	Title in original language	nvarchar(100)	0
Designate	Title in English	nvarchar(100)	0
Title - french	Title in French	nvarchar(255)	0
Iso3	Country ISO code	nvarchar(3)	0
Desig_abbr	National designation type code	nvarchar(5)	-1
Category	National designation type category	nvarchar(1)	0

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Nationally designated areas

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Altitude_max	Maximum altitude within the site boundaries		float(8)	0
Lat	Latitude		float(8)	0
Lon	Longitude - decimal		float(8)	0
Site_code	Unique record identifier for nationally designated areas		float(8)	0
Size	Surface area in ha.		float(8)	0
Altitude_min	Minimum altitude within the site boundaries		float(8)	0
Year	Year of establishment	Creation year of the site under the designation concerned	nvarchar(4)	0
Lat_ns	Latitude North/South	always N	nvarchar(2)	0
Lon_ew	Longitude East/West	E or W	nvarchar(2)	0
Desig_abbr	National designation type code		nvarchar(10)	-1
Areaname	Site Name (in principle in local language)		nvarchar(120)	0
Nuts	administrative region code		nvarchar(5)	0
Site_code_nat	Unique record identifier in the national source database		nvarchar(12)	0
Parent_iso	ISO 3 caracters country code		nvarchar(6)	0
Iso3	ISO 3 caracters country code		nvarchar(3)	0
Londeg	Longitude degrees		smallint(2)	0
Lonmin	Longitude minutes		smallint(2)	0
Lonsec	Longitude seconds		smallint(2)	0
Latdeg	Latitude degrees		smallint(2)	0
Latmin	Latitude minutes		smallint(2)	0
Latsec	Latitude seconds		smallint(2)	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:: 14 Oct 2003
Tags:: ETC/NPB | EEA owned data sets | protected area | geospatial data
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. Date of delivery: 09/10/2003.
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Nature Protection and Biodiversity