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See all EU institutions and bodiesThis dataset represents the Network of Marine Protected Areas within OSPAR (Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic). MPAs are understood as areas for which protective, conservation, restorative or precautionary measures have been instituted for the purpose of protecting and conserving species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological processes of the marine environment.
Archived or restricted datasets
OSPAR marine protected areas, Oct. 2013SHP
Temporal coverage: 2005-2013