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EEA marine assessment areas
GIS data
EEA marine assessment areas
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Data in GDB-, GPKG- and SHP formats
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INSPIRE compliant metadata
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Metadata
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
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- Not applicable
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:100000
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Rights:
- No limitations to public access
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 (EEA). -
Disclaimer:
- The map should not be understood as representing international marine borders. To this end, the following disclaimer will accompany the map: "This map serves as a working mean only and shall not be considered as an official or legally-binding map representing marine borders in accordance with international law. This map shall be used without prejudice to the agreements that will be concluded between Member States or between Member States and non-EU Countries in respect of their marine borders."
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Methodology:
The EEA marine assessment areas are defined as the maritime area (water column and seabed) surrounding the EU countries whose outer limit is defined by the 200 NM boundary from the coast (possibly coinciding with formally recognised EEZ boundaries) or the equidistance (in cases of opposite neighbouring EU countries), or by the presence of a boundary defined by an agreed treaty. Landwards the dataset is harmonised with the "EEA coastline for analysis". Inner boundaries are based on the "EEA Marine waters for analysis" dataset, which is a harmonised version of the marine waters reported by EU Member States under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Information about MSFD regions and subregions was assigned to the attributes of the assessment areas. National boundaries are omitted from the dataset and gaps and overlaps removed, resulting in 10 units that are named according to the assigned MSFD regions and subregions:
- Adriatic Sea
- Aegean-Levantine Sea
- Baltic Sea
- Bay of Biscay and the Iberian Coast
- Black Sea
- Celtic Seas
- Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
- Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea
- Macaronesia
- Western Mediterranean Sea.
Remarks in the delineation of this dataset compared to the previous version (one of the layers in "Europe Seas - version 1, Dec. 2018" dataset):
- The boundary between Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel and Baltic Sea follows the delineation in the MSFD regions and subregions dataset version 2.
- Outer (seaward) boundary is harmonised with the latest Bulgaria Marine Waters submission under MSFD Art.4 reporting.
- United Kingdom marine waters are not part of this dataset following Brexit.
The dataset was assembled by ETC/ICM.
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM)
- TC Vode
Permalinks
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- Permalink to latest version
- DAT-284-en
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-marine-assessment-areas or scan the QR code.
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