The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Coastal Protection Strip Art. 20. § 2 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Dredging_S1 Art. 15. § 1.1°, Dredging_S2 Art. 15. § 1.2°, Dredging_Bridges and Roads Ostend Art. 15. § 1.3°, Dredging_Bridges and Roads Zeebrugge East Art. 15. § 1.4°, Dredging_Bridges and Roads Zeebrugge West Art. 15. § 1.5°, Dredging_Bridges and Roads Nieuwpoort Art. 15. § 1.6°, Dredging_Erosion Pit Zeebrugge Art. 15. § 1.7°, Dredging_Future Replacement S1 Art. 15. § 4.1°, Dredging_Second Future Replacement S1 Art. 15. § 4.2°, Dredging_Second Possible Replacement Zeebrugge East and Zeebrugge West Art. 15. § 6, Dredging_Possible Replacement Zeebrugge East and Zeebrugge West Art. 15. § 6, Dredging_Third Possible Replacement Zeebrugge East and Zeebrugge West Art. 15. § 6, Dredging_Future Replacement Bridges and Roads Nieuwpoort Art. 15. § 8 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

The Scientific Service Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea of the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences has been operating monitoring stations on the Belgian Part of the North Sea since the 1970s. These stations are located in the Scheldt estuary, at open sea and in coastal waters. In 2007, 10 new stations were designated and were placed in the monitoring network needed for the OSPAR convention, the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategic Framework Directive. These replaced a series of 54 previous monitoring stations whose data was gathered throughout the years for the Belgian Monitoring Programme and reported according to the recommendations of the OSPAR Convention. This dataset contains information on all monitoring stations ever used by the Scientific Service Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea. The dataset provides location, name, operational history and for which reporting obligations they are used.

This dataset describes the extents and location of Sandbanks (code 1110) in the Belgian Part of the North Sea (BPNS) as required for article 17 of the Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora. The Council Directive seeks to contribute to ensuring biodiversity in the European Union by the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora species.

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.

This dataset describes the location of the samples gathered for the Scientific research program DGL-JW (2021-15) managed bu the FPS Environment. Sampling started in 2004 and lasted until 2021.

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines QZR 040 Art. 21. § 1.1°, NBH-10 Art. 21. § 1.2°, NB-01 Art. 21. § 1.3°, Outside Ratel Art. 21. § 1.4°, BNOM Art. 21. § 1.5°, Shallow Water Zone Art. 21. § 1.6°, Munition Destruction Area Art. 21. § 2, Lombardsijde_Small Shooting Sector Art. 21. § 3.1°, Lombardsijde_Middle Shooting Sector Art. 21. § 3.2°, Lombardsijde_Large Shooting Sector Art. 21. § 3.3°, Ammunition Dumping Site Paardenmarkt Art. 22. § 1 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Oostdyck Radar Tower Art. 25. § 3 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 1a Art. 19. § 1.1°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 4d Art. 19. § 1.10°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 5 Art. 19. § 1.11°, Sand Extraction_Sector 2kb Art. 19. § 1.2°, Sand Extraction_Sector 2br Art. 19. § 1.3°, Sand Extraction_Sector 2od Art. 19. § 1.4°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 3a Art. 19. § 1.5°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 3b Art. 19. § 1.6°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 4a Art. 19. § 1.7°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 4b Art. 19. § 1.8°, Sand and Gravel Extraction_Sector 4c Art. 19. § 1.9°, Extraction Search Zone Art. 19. § 4 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines CIA Zone Art. 27. § 1 Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.