The European inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The inventory is delivered by the Eionet partnership countries as spatial and tabular information. The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The CDDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from the 39 European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The CDDA data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Geographical coverage of GIS vector boundary data: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. The dataset ("CDDA_2019_v01_internal") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities and is provided in GDB and GPKG formats. NOTE: EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Turkey. Therefore, this data set is available only for internal use of the European Environment Agency. The public version dataset is available with the title "Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for public access - version 17, June 2019", which is derived from this dataset.

The European inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The inventory is delivered by the Eionet partnership countries as spatial and tabular information. The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The CDDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from the 39 European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The CDDA data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). Geographical coverage of GIS vector boundary data: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom. Two versions of the dataset are provided. The "CDDA_2018_v01_internal_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. The full dataset ("CDDA_2018_v01_internal") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats. NOTE: EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Turkey. Therefore, this data set is available only for internal use of the European Environment Agency. The public version dataset is available with the title "Nationally designated areas (CDDA) polygons for public access - version 16, Nov. 2018", which is derived from this dataset.

The European inventory of Nationally designated areas (CDDA) holds information about designated areas and their designation types, which directly or indirectly create protected areas. The inventory is delivered by the Eionet partnership countries as spatial and tabular information. The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. The CDDA is now an agreed annual Eionet core data flow maintained by the European Environment Agency (EEA) with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD). The dataset is used by the EEA and e.g. the UNEP-WCMC for their main European and global assessments, products and services. The CDDA is the official source of protected area information from the 39 European countries to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). The CDDA data can be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS). This metadata refers to the internal version of the CDDA dataset version 18 (2020). EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Turkey. The public version dataset is available with the title "Nationally designated areas (CDDA) for public access - version 18, May 2020", which is derived from this dataset. Two versions of the dataset are provided. The full dataset ("CDDA_2020_v01_internal") includes the entire geographical coverage including nationally designated areas in overseas entities. The "CDDA_2020_v01_internal_EuropeEPSG3035" version includes only continental Europe, i.e. excludes the overseas entities. Both versions are provided in GDB and GPKG formats. The dataset is accompanied by the following tabular data: CDDA_2020_v01_internal_DesignatedArea.csv, which includes information on all the nationally designated sites and designated boundaries; and CDDA_2020_v01_public_DesignationType.csv, which contains information about designation types and the national and international legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected designated areas in Europe.