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Belgian continental shelf

The law of 13 June 1969 defines “Belgian Continental Shelf” as follows: the seabed and the subsoil of the marine areas adjacent to the Belgian coast but beyond the Belgian territorial sea.

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Date (Creation)
2026-06-09
Date (Revision)
2026-06-09
Date (Publication)
2026-06-10
Title

Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Code
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3130
Citation identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:3130

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: Belgian continental shelf.

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)

info@naturalsciences.be

Publisher

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)

info@naturalsciences.be

Owner
Keywords
  • Reporting INSPIRE

  • Federal government

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
Vector
Language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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gml32:beginPosition
1969-06-13
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian
Distributor format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

Transfer size
0.264682
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities

od_nature:Belgian_continental_shelf

Distributor

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

Custodian
Distributor format
Name Version

application/xml

Unknown

Transfer size
0.117174
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WFS

https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities

od_nature:Belgian_continental_shelf

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

DOI

https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3130

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

Hierarchy level
Dataset

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

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.

Metadata

File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:3130 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-06-10T08:40:42.784Z
Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)

bmdc@naturalsciences.be

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

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