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)
2024-12-24
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
10.24417/29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / 29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3

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Other citation details
Please cite as follows: Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://odnature.naturalsciences.be/
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Originator
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
Theme
  • Marine essentials
  • Federal government
  • One mile zone
  • Reporting INSPIRE
  • Twelve mile zone
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Marine Regions
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Other constraints
No conditions apply to access and use
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
  • Environment
  • Oceans
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Extent type code
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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 )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute for 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
0.244752
OnLine resource
od_nature:marine_reporting_units ( 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 for 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
0.117348
OnLine resource
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
2024-12-24T17:14:17.867+01:00
Metadata standard name
Geographic information -- Metadata
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute for 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 Marine essentials One mile zone Reporting INSPIRE Twelve mile zone
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Land and natural area cover and use
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets
Directive 2008/56/EC Marine reporting units (Marine Strategy Framework Directive)
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
Environment

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