Alternate title

INSPIRE Register of Protected Areas - Nutrient Sensitive Areas

Date (Creation)

2016-09-01

Date (Revision)

2020-10-27

Date (Publication)

2016-09-01

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.IE.EPA.WFD_UWWTD_SensitiveAreas

Citation identifier

EPA / AM.SensitiveArea

Purpose

Identification and protection of WFD Nutrient Sensitive Waterbodies for the EU Water Framework Directive.

This dataset represents a snapshot taken in September 2016 for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle 2.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

• Sensitive areas (Urban Waste-Water Treatment Directive)

Spatial scope

• National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• nutrient

• ecological parameter

• conservation

Environmental Protection Agency

• waterbody

• protected site

• habitats and biotopes

• protected area

• nutrients

• nutrient sensitivity

Place

• Ireland

Specific usage

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	User

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no limitations to public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

no conditions to access and use

Other constraints

CC BY 4.0

Other constraints

This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]

Spatial representation type

Vector

Denominator

50000

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

This dataset represents a snapshot taken in September 2016 for the purpose of the WFD RBMP Cycle 2.

The nutrient sensitive areas included within the Register are those waters listed in the Urban Waste Water Treatment (UWWT) Directive 91/271/EEC and Regulations S.I. No. 208/1999, S.I. 254/2001, S.I. 440/2004 and S.I. 48/2010.

The waterbody containing the sensitive area is used to represent the nutrient sensitive area. A Nitrates Action Programme was prepared in accordance with Article 5 of the Nitrates Directive (91/676/EEC) and was applied to the whole territory of the State.

Consequently no NVZs were designated and a polygon showing the whole of the Republic of Ireland is supplied for reporting purposes.

Spatial Accuracy: all protected waterbodies are extracted from the existing WFD waterbody layers: spatial accuracy of each of the waterbody types (river, lake or transitional water) is described in the metadata for that layer.

Thematic Accuracy: The name of each protected area is as per the relevant legislation. Protected area codes are unique incremental numbers.

Currency: New Urban Waste Water Regulations were created in early 2010, but this was past the deadline for creation of RBMPs. New sensitive areas designated in this legislation have been added to the national register of protected areas but are not reported as they were not designated at the time of RBMP creation.

Logical Consistency: The dataset meets the topological requirements set out in Guidance Document No. 22: Support for Reporting of RBMP, Guidance on reporting of spatial data. Article 10 of the Directive obliges Member States to report every 4 years to the European Commission on the implementation of the Directive in their country.

Metadata

File identifier

1d270436-ecc0-4389-9a43-465ace5298a0 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2024-09-23T00:00:00

Metadata standard name

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive

Metadata standard version

TG 2.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@edenireland.ie	Point of contact