Air quality assessment zones of Belgium

The zones are used as reporting units of the air quality in Belgium. These zones are defined based on Article 3 of the 2004/107/EC Directive and Article 4 of the 2008/50/EC Directive. A zones shall mean a part of the territory of a Member State, as delimited by that Member State for the purposes of air quality assessment and management (source: 2008/50/EC).2008/50/EC Article 4: Establishment of zones and agglomerations: Member States shall establish zones and agglomerations throughout their territory. Air quality assessment and air quality management shall be carried out in all zones and agglomerations.

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Date (Publication)
2015-12-23T09:30:00
Date (Creation)
2015-12-22T09:30:00
Citation identifier
https://geo.irceline.be/csw/232844d3-26c5-47e4-9dae-1386fc4647e9
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE)

info@irceline.be

Custodian

ThIST - Italian Thesaurus of Earth Sciences (Version: Linked Data 1.0)

  • Belgium
Keywords

  • EU Directive 2008/50/EC

  • air quality

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

  • air

  • air quality

  • air quality monitoring

  • environmental policy

  • health protection
Keywords

  • Dataflow B

EARTh- Enviromental Applications Reference THesaurus (Version: Linked Data 1.5)

  • air quality policy

EUROVOC (ver: 4.4)

  • EU environmental policy

  • monitoring of pollution
Keywords

  • Air Quality Assessment Zones
Keywords

  • Reporting INSPIRE

  • Air Quality Directive

  • AQD

  • 32008L0050

INSPIRE priority data set

  • Management zones and agglomerations (Air Quality Directive)

  • Model areas (Air Quality Directive)

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Zone Type Code

  • air quality management zone

Environmental Domain

  • air

Spatial scope

  • National
Use limitation

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

No
Other constraints

no limitation
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
1500000
Language
English
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Environment
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Begin date
2014-01-01T09:30:00
End date
2014-12-31T09:30:00 Before
Reference system identifier
IRCEL - CELINE / https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
Name Version

Administrative units GML application schema

version 3.0; GML, version 3.2.1
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

OGC:WMS

 		https://geo.irceline.be/aqd/air_quality_assessment_zones/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

air_quality_assessment_zones

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://geo.irceline.be/csw/srv/api/records/232844d3-26c5-47e4-9dae-1386fc4647e9/formatters/xml

View service Air Quality Data Belgium - WMS
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Domain consistency

Name of measure

INSPIRE Conformity

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

The dataset described fills the technical requirements sustaining the interoperability of data sets and services, as stipulated in the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010
Pass
Yes
Statement

The dataset is created in the context of the 2008/50/EC Framework Directive. The Belgian territory is devided into zones according to the instructions listed in the 2008/50/EC Directive. Air Quality Assessment Zones are pollutant specific and only applicable for a given year. The data service supports Common Query Language (CQL).

Metadata

File identifier
232844d3-26c5-47e4-9dae-1386fc4647e9 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2022-11-28T15:47:46
Metadata standard name

ISO19115
Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE)

info@irceline.be

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

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overview
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Keywords

32008L0050 AQD Air Quality Directive Reporting INSPIRE
Environmental Domain
air
GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01
air air quality air quality monitoring environmental policy health protection
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE priority data set
Management zones and agglomerations (Air Quality Directive) Model areas (Air Quality Directive)
Spatial scope
National
Zone Type Code
air quality management zone

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