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See all EU institutions and bodiesThe European inventory of Nationally designated areas holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The Nationally designated areas is the official source of protected area information from the 38 European member countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The Nationally designated areas data can be queried online in the
Datasets
Nationally designated areas for public access (vector data) - July 2026GeopackageGDB
Published: 10 Jul 2026
Temporal coverage: 2025-2026
Nationally designated areas for public access (tabular data) - July 2026ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)
Published: 10 Jul 2026
Temporal coverage: 2025-2026
Superseded or restricted datasets
Nationally designated areas for public access (vector data) - August 2025GeopackageGDBSuperseded
Published: 19 Aug 2025
Temporal coverage: 2024-2025
Nationally designated areas for public access (tabular data) - August 2025ascii (.csv, .txt, .sql)Superseded
Published: 19 Aug 2025
Temporal coverage: 2024-2025