OSPAR Marine Protected Areas

Database outlining marine protected areas in the OSPAR maritime area


At the Ministerial Meeting in Sintra in 1998, OSPAR Ministers agreed to promote the establishment of a network of marine protected areas. Following a period of preparatory work, the 2003 OSPAR Ministerial Meeting in Bremen adopted Recommendation 2003/3 on a network of marine protected areas with the purpose of establishing an ecologically coherent network of well-managed MPAs in the North-East Atlantic.This database holds spatial and non-spatial data that OSPAR Contracting Parties have reported on MPAs that have been nominated to the OSPAR MPA network.


The information is predomniantly used to undertake regular assessments of the status of the network. The latest report can be found on the "Publications" page of the OSPAR website.

 
Citation proposal
(2014) . OSPAR Marine Protected Areas. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/ospar_mpa_2014_01

Simple

Date ( Publication )
2014-01-01
Date ( Revision )
2014-01-01
Date ( Creation )
2016-10-11
Identifier

ospar_mpa_2014_01

  Owner

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Protected sites

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • environmental protection

Use limitation

http://www.ospar.org/site/assets/files/1215/ospar_data_conditions_of_use.pdf

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

no limitation

Spatial representation type
Vector
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Environment
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Reference system identifier

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/30 35

Distribution format

  • unknown

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OnLine resource
http://mpa.ospar.org/  
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Statement

Formed from data reported by Contracting Parties to OSPAR

Metadata

File identifier
ospar_mpa_2014_01   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
MD_CharacterSetCode_utf8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2016-10-12T17:21:11
Metadata standard name

ISO19115

Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006

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