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Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 12 sand and gravel extraction zones: Sand and gravel exploitation sector 1a (Thorntonbank) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 2br (Buiten Ratel) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 2kb (Kwintebank) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 2od (Oostdyck) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 3a (Sierra Ventana) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 3b (Sierra Ventana) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 4a (Noordhinder) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 4b (Oosthinder-noord) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 4c (Oosthinder-zuid) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 4d (Westhinder) (Art. 15§1), Sand and gravel exploitation sector 5 (Blighbank) (Art. 15§1), Zone for research of the potential of the exploration and exploitation of sand and gravel (Art. 15§4). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness.. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 11., eleven Management zones with regards to sand and gravel extraction: ten sand and gravel exploitation zones (Thorntonbank, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 1a, Kwintebank, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 2kb, Buiten Ratel, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 2br, Oostdyck, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 2od, Sierra Ventana, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 3a, Sierra Ventana, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 3b, Noord Hinder, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 4a, Oosthinder-noord, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 4b, Oosthinder-zuid, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 4c, Westhinder, Art. 11 § 1 Sector 4d) and one reference zone for monitoring impact of windmills and sand exploitation (Art. 11 § 3). These zones are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.

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Date (Creation)
2021-11-18
Date (Revision)
2021-11-22
Date (Publication)
2025-05-07
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
10.24417/f432b696-ac1a-4971-acc8-184bc79e9b7f
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / f432b696-ac1a-4971-acc8-184bc79e9b7f

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Please cite as follows: 1) MSP 2014-2020 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. 2) MSP 2020-2026 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.3) SWAP (n.d.). MarineAtlas website.MarineAtlas website.4) Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.
Originator
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
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
Theme
  • Marine Spatial Plan
  • Land use
  • Federal government
  • Reporting INSPIRE
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land 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
  • environmental planning
  • gravel extraction
  • development planning
  • economic planning
  • sand extraction
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Land and natural area cover and use
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Economy and finance
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
  • Economy
  • Oceans
  • Planning cadastre
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Extent type code
Yes
Date
Unique resource identifier
North Sea
gml32:beginPosition
2014-01-01
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • application/xml ( Unknown )

  • text/html ( 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
0.218439
OnLine resource
imsp:bmsp_extraction_zone ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map of: MSP 2014-2020 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

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
0.111594
OnLine resource
imsp:bmsp_extraction_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download: MSP 2014-2020 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

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
0.224336
OnLine resource
imsp19:bmsp_extraction_zone ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map of: MSP 2020-2026 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

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
0.115733
OnLine resource
imsp19:bmsp_extraction_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download: MSP 2020-2026 Sand and gravel extraction zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

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
text/html
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.007522
OnLine resource
MarineAtlas website. SWAP ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

An HTTP link to view information on: MarineAtlas website. SWAP

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
f432b696-ac1a-4971-acc8-184bc79e9b7f XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-07T15:13:08.089Z
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

Federal government Land use Marine Spatial Plan Reporting INSPIRE
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 environmental planning gravel extraction sand extraction
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land use
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Economy and finance

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