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2026 - Scientific research, recreation, radars and masts zones

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Monitoring Area Thorntonbank Art. 23. § 10.1°, Monitoring Area Gootebank Art. 23. § 10.2°, Scientific Research Zone Art. 23. § 3, Search Zone for Scientific Research Reserve Art. 23. § 6, Zone Accessible for Scientific Research 1 Art. 23. § 8.1°, Zone Accessible for Scientific Research 2 Art. 23. § 8.1°, Calibration Area for Acoustic Instruments Art. 23. § 9 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

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Date (Creation)
2026-06-08
Date (Revision)
2026-06-09
Date (Publication)
2026-06-09
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3128
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:3128

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Other citation details
This dataset is composed of the following sources: MSP 2026-2032 Scientific research, recreation, radars and masts zones.
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
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Keywords
  • Marine Spatial Plan
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
  • Federal government
  • Reporting INSPIRE
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
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)
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • development planning
  • industrial planning
  • economic planning
  • scientific research
  • recreational area
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Land and natural area cover and use
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Science and technology
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
  • National
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
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Planning cadastre
  • Utilities communication
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gml32:beginPosition
2026-03-20
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • application/xml ( 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/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.247773
OnLine resource
imsp26:bmsp_research_recreation_radars_masts_zone ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map

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/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.122326
OnLine resource
imsp26:bmsp_research_recreation_radars_masts_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download

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
Dataset is quality assured. Dataset corresponds to a digitized version of the information published in the Belgian official gazette ("Belgisch staatsblad/Moniteur belge"). Only the information published in the official gazette has legal validity.
File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:3128 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-06-09T10:28:16.451Z
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

Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Land and natural area cover and use
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
development planning economic planning industrial planning recreational area scientific research
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Science and technology

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