Significant acute pollution events dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 8 (D08C03, 2018 Reporting)

This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 8, criterion 3. This dataset gives an overview of the observed slicks during aerial survey operations of the Belgian part of the North Sea (2011-2016). Related to significant acute pollution, it includes the observations linked to the Flinterstar incident in 2015. Besides this, all observations of illegal discharges of MARPOL annex I and II substances are included as an additional dataset.

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Date (Creation)
2018-09-07
Date (Revision)
2021-12-08
Date (Publication)
2025-11-24
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2031
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2031

Date

Other citation details
This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Maarten Van Cappelle (2018). Illegal discharges of MARPOL annex I and II substances. (2) Ronny Schallier, Sebastien Legrand (2018). Occurence and extent of significant accute pollution. (3) Ronny Schallier, Karien De Cauwer (2018). The risk of acute marine pollution.
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (MUMM)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/mumm/
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Ecosystems data processing and modelling (ECODAM)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Eionet Central Data Repository
Keywords
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
European Legislation Identifier
Marine Regions
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No conditions apply to access and use
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access.
Use limitation
No conditions apply to use.
Classification
Unclassified
Spatial representation type
Text, table
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
2012-01-01
gml32:endPosition
2016-12-31
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • application/vnd.ms-excel ( Unknown )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/vnd.ms-excel
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.071456
OnLine resource
Illegal discharges of MARPOL annex I and II substances. Maarten Van Cappelle ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in Excel

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/vnd.ms-excel
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.071456
OnLine resource
Occurence and extent of significant accute pollution. Ronny Schallier, Sebastien Legrand ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

An HTTP link to download this dataset in Excel

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Pass
Yes
Statement
Data on the occurrence and extent of significant acute pollution and illegal discharges are gathered by aerial surveillance by RBINS-SURV and presented to BMDC as excel files. These files are made available via this metadata record without any change.
File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2031 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-24T16:59:09.888+01:00
Metadata standard name
Geographic information -- Metadata
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

Eionet Central Data Repository
(Criteria) D8C3 - Significant acute pollution events
European Legislation Identifier
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
Marine Strategy Framework Directive marine monitoring marine pollution pollution monitoring
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Oceanographic geographical features
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
Directive 2008/56/EC
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts
Oceanographic Geographical Features
NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0
Contaminants do not produce pollution effects

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