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Shipping and ports zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 20 shipping and ports zones: Shipping regular regime (Art. 10§1), Northbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'Noordhinder Sud' (Art. 10§2.1°), Separation zone 'Noordhinder Sud' (Art. 10§2.1°), Precaution zone 'Near Thornton and Blighbank ' (Art. 10§2.10°), Northbound traffic flow starting at separation zone 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Separation zone 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Southbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Precaution zone 'Noordhinder Jonction' (Art. 10§2.3°), Eastbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Eastbound traffic flow starting at separation zone 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Precaution zone 'At West Hinder ' (Art. 10§2.4°), Separation zone 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Westbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Area to be Avoided 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.6°), Deep water route 'Westerschelde approach' (Art. 10§2.7°), Border line 1 of two-way shipping lane 'Westpit' (Art. 10§2.8°), Border line 2 of two-way shipping lane 'Westpit' (Art. 10§2.8°), Precaution zone 'At Gootebank' (Art. 10§2.9°), Anchoring zone 'Oostdyck' (Art. 10§3.1°), Anchoring zone 'Westhinder' (Art. 10§3.2°). 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. 9, nine zones with regards to shipping and ports: seven shipping zones (Shipping regular regime, Art. 9 § 1; Shipping route Northhinder South, Art. 9 § 2.1°; Shipping route Northhinder junction, Art. 9 § 2.2°; Shipping route Westhinder, Art. 9 § 2.3°; Shipping route Westhinder precautionary area, Art. 9 § 2.4°; Shipping route Westhinder area to be avoided, Art. 9 § 2.5°; Deep water shipping route Western Scheldt approach, Art. 9 § 2.6°) and two anchorage places (Anchorage place 'Oostdyck', Art. 9 § 4.1° and Anchorage place 'Westhinder', Art. 9 § 4.2°). 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)
2023-12-01
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34

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Other citation details
Please cite as follows: 1) SWAP (n.d.). MarineAtlas website.MarineAtlas website. 2) Shipping and ports 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/
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
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Theme
  • Marine Spatial Plan
  • Federal government
  • Reporting INSPIRE
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Marine Regions
  • Belgian part of the North Sea
  • Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • maritime navigation
  • economic planning
  • environmental planning
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Land and natural area cover and use
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
  • Transport
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
  • National
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
  • 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 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
0.115036
OnLine resource
imsp19:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download: Shipping and ports zones 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
0.224323
OnLine resource
imsp19:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map of: Shipping and ports zones 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
0.111039
OnLine resource
imsp:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download: Shipping and ports zones 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
0.218424
OnLine resource
imsp:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WMS )

A WMS service to view a map of: Shipping and ports zones 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
text/html
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.007421
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
f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-12-01T14:41:14.898Z
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 Spatial Plan Reporting INSPIRE
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Land and natural area cover and use
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
economic planning environmental planning maritime navigation
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
Transport

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