Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

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.

Date (Creation): 2021-11-18

Date (Revision): 2021-11-22

Date (Publication): 2024-07-18

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / 29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: Please cite as follows: Marine Reporting Units in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell	geocell@naturalsciences.be	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)	odnature@naturalsciences.be	Author

Theme

Reporting INSPIRE
One mile zone
Federal government
Marine essentials
Twelve mile zone

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

Marine Regions

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Land and natural area cover and use

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Environment

INSPIRE Registry: Priority Datasets

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

National

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Other constraints: No conditions apply to access and use

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

Environment
Oceans

Extent type code: Yes

Date

Code: North Sea

gml32:beginPosition: 2014-01-01

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Transfer size: 0.236757

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	od_nature:marine_reporting_units

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WFS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/od_nature/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities	od_nature:marine_reporting_units

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: The dataset has been merged from several existing ESRI shapefiles of marine reporting units, reprojected towards ETRS89-LAEA and saved as a new shapefile. The dataset is offered as the resulting shapefile and an INSPIRE-harmonized GML file.

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File identifier: 29f40b0d-2a3e-49a8-870a-e9b4acd4d1e3 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-07-18T15:40:51.336+02:00

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 for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

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Language	Character encoding
Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German

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