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Emergency rescue zones

Emergency rescue zones corresponds to the dataset of the territorial delimitation of the emergency areas such as defined by the Royal Decree of February 2nd 2009 determining the territorial delimitation of the emergency areas in accordance with the law of May 15th 2007 on civil protection. This dataset is composed of two classes. The first class contains the identifiers, names and geometries of the various areas; the second is a class without geometry and corresponds to the table of Belgian municipalities with the emergency area for each of them. The dataset can be freely downloaded as a zipped shapefiles.

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Date (Creation)
2022-06-15
Date (Revision)
2026-06-18
Citation identifier
GADP / 69e433cf-e89f-11ec-8ae3-9453308970f2
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)

Gérald Henskens

datadelivery@minfin.fed.be

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Data.gov.be themes
  • Government and public sector
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Administrative units
EUROVOC - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • crisis management
  • civil defence
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
  • Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
INSPIRE feature concept dictionary
  • Administrative Boundary
  • Administrative Unit
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
  • emergency plan
  • rescue service
  • administrative boundary
  • federal government
Spatial scope
  • National
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations on public access
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Language
Deutsch
Language
Français
Language
Nederlands; Vlaams
Language
English
Character set
8859 Part 15
Description

Belgium

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Distribution format
Name Version
Esri Shapefile

10.2

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/besluit/2009/02/02/2009000065/justel

http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/besluit/2009/02/02/2009000065/justel

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://opendata.fin.belgium.be/download/TechnicalSpecifications/EmergencyRescueZones_20260618_TechSpec_NL.pdf

https://opendata.fin.belgium.be/download/TechnicalSpecifications/EmergencyRescueZones_20260618_TechSpec_NL.pdf

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://opendata.fin.belgium.be/download/ATOM/9bb31275-18bc-4bdc-96e9-55c9e1edd9eb-en.xml

Download service non-INSPIRE datasets

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://opendata.fin.belgium.be/download/datasets/69bf46b0-e89f-11ec-a74a-9453308970f2_20260618_shp_3812_01000.zip

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://opendata.fin.belgium.be/download/datasets/69bf46b0-e89f-11ec-a74a-9453308970f2_20260618_shp_31370_01000.zip

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://financien.belgium.be/nl/experten_partners/open-patrimoniumdata/datasets/downloadportaal

https://finance.belgium.be/en/experts-partners/open-data-patrimony/datasets/download-portal

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure

INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked

Statement

Emergency rescue zones is constituted on the basis of the Royal Decree of February 2nd 2009 determining the territorial delimitation of the emergency areas, which describes and establishes the municipalities belonging to each area. The delimitation of emergency areas is then reconstituted by the General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation by merging the geometries of municipalities in the same area. The municipalities’ geometry corresponds to the one of the Administrative Units dataset– situation on January 1st.

Metadata

File identifier
69bf46b0-e89f-11ec-a74a-9453308970f2 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-09-16T09:16:37
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)

Gérald Henskens

datadelivery@minfin.fed.be

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English UTF8
 
 

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Keywords

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
Data.gov.be themes

Government and public sector
EUROVOC - Concept themes, version 4.01

civil defence crisis management
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

administrative boundary emergency plan federal government rescue service
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units
INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

Administrative Boundary Administrative Unit
Spatial scope

National


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