Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 5 nature conservation areas: Special area for conservation 'The Flemish Banks' (Art. 7§1), Special area for conservation 'Vlakte van de Raan' (Art. 7§3), Special protection area for birds - SPA 1 (Art. 7§5.1°), Special protection area for birds - SPA 2 (Art. 7§5.2°), Special protection area for birds - SPA 3 (Art. 7§5.3°). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 7., six nature conservation sites: two special areas for conservation (Art. 7. §1, Special area for conservation 'Vlaamse Banken' and Art. 7. §3, Special area for conservation 'Trapegeer stroombank'), three special protection zones for birds (Art7§4.1°, SBZ1, Art7§4.2°, SBZ2, Art7§4.3°, SBZ3), and one marine reserve (Art7§8, Marine reserve 'Baai van Heist'). These zones are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.

Date (Creation): 2021-11-18

Date (Revision): 2021-11-22

Date (Publication): 2025-12-12

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/9f4131b6-7895-403a-a17e-6bb33befaf16

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / 9f4131b6-7895-403a-a17e-6bb33befaf16
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) MSP 2014-2020 Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. (2) MSP 2020-2026 Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. (3) SWAP (n.d.). MarineAtlas website.MarineAtlas website. (4) Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

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Organisation 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	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell	geocell@naturalsciences.be	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)	odnature@naturalsciences.be	Author

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Protected sites

Keywords

Marine Spatial Plan
Protected sites
Federal government
Reporting INSPIRE

European Legislation Identifier

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)

Marine Regions

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Land and natural area cover and use

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Environment

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

National

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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

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Environment
Oceans
Planning cadastre

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

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Code: North Sea

gml32:beginPosition: 2014-01-01

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

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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

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

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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

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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

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Transfer size: 0.225898

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp19/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp19:bmsp_conservation_zone

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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

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Transfer size: 0.116278

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WFS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp19/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp19:bmsp_conservation_zone

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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

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text/html	Unknown

Transfer size: 0.008877

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.marineatlas.be	MarineAtlas website. SWAP

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/9f4131b6-7895-403a-a17e-6bb33befaf16	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.

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File identifier: 9f4131b6-7895-403a-a17e-6bb33befaf16 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2025-12-12T16:13:04.412Z

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

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Dutch; Flemish
French
English
German

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