geo.be Metadata Catalog
Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
The dataset contains the borders of the Belgian marine waters in the North Sea and the different geographical areas (‘reporting units’) used when reporting in the frame of the the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) and the Water Framework directive 2000/60/EC (WFD). The ecological status in the frame of WFD is reported for the coastal waters, defined as the one-nautical mile area, while the chemical status needs to be reported for the territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles). MSFD requires information for the whole area, encompassing the territorial waters and the Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone. For some descriptors, results have been reported separately for the WFD subdivisions during the update of the initial assessment in 2018.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2021-11-18
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-11-22
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-10-30
- Identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
/
29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3
- Date
- Other citation details
- Please cite as follows: Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.
Author
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/
Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Theme
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- Reporting INSPIRE
- Marine essentials
- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- One mile zone
- Federal government
- Twelve mile zone
- 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
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- Environment
- Oceans
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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
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application/xml
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Unknown
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application/xml
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Unknown
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Distributor
Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Name
- application/xml
- Version
- Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.244938
- OnLine resource
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od_nature:marine_reporting_units
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OGC:WMS
)
A WMS service to view a map of: Marine Reporting Units 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)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Name
- application/xml
- Version
- Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.1175
- OnLine resource
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od_nature:marine_reporting_units
(
OGC:WFS
)
A WFS service to download: Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
- The dataset has been merged from several existing ESRI shapefiles of marine reporting units, reprojected towards ETRS89-LAEA and saved as a new shapefile. The dataset is offered as the resulting shapefile and an INSPIRE-harmonized GML file.
- File identifier
- 29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-10-30T17:12:49.189+01:00
- Metadata standard name
- Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
Overviews
large_thumbnail
Spatial extent
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Provided by
Associated resources
Not available