Date (Creation)

2025-02-13

Date (Revision)

2026-09-14

Date (Publication)

2026-09-15

Date (Creation)

2016-05-19

Unique resource identifier

https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2933

Identifier

http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:2933

Date

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Annelore Van Nieuwenhove (n.d.). Illegal MARPOL Annex I and II discharges Report MSFD 2024. (2) Ronny Schallier, Annelore Van Nieuwenhove (n.d.). Significant acute pollution events. (3) Ronny Schallier, Sébastien Legrand (n.d.). The risk of acute pollution Report MSFD 2024.

Keywords

• Oceanographic geographical features
• Reporting INSPIRE
• Federal government

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Oceanographic geographical features

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

• marine monitoring
• Marine Strategy Framework Directive

INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

• Directive 2008/56/EC

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

• Environment

INSPIRE Registry: feature concepts

• Oceanographic Geographical Features

NERC Vocabulary Server - C45 Vocabulary version 3.0

• Contaminants do not produce pollution effects

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

• National

High-value dataset categories

• Earth observation and environment

Eionet Central Data Repository

• (Criteria) D8C3 - Significant acute pollution events

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

gml32:beginPosition

2020-01-01

Reference system identifier

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

Distribution format

• application/vnd.ms-excel ( Unknown )

OnLine resource

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

Observations are made during weekly aerial surveillance flights, following the Bonn Agreement methodology (BON-002); illegal discharges of MARPOL Annex I and II substances are logged as a separate dataset. Monitoring is carried out by RBINS (MUMM) under the Bonn Agreement for cooperation in dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, since 1991. Surveillance aircraft with remote and visual/photographic detection of pollution at sea. Interpretation of aerial surveillance data following Bonn Agreement methodology (BON-002).

File identifier

bmdc.be:dataset:2933 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-09-15T15:30:31.291Z

Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139