The Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean Importance (SPAMI) - version 1 (09/2013) is a dataset produced within the Spatial analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe´s seas, elaborated by ISPRA (Rome, Italy) and coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in 2013-2014. SPAMI are marine protected areas (MPAs) declared in the frame of the Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the marine environment and the coastal Region of the Mediterranean Sea (Barcelona Convention). Since no official layer of all the SPAMI areas was available in 2013, the shapefiles of each SPAMI were downloaded from the MAPAMED website (www.mapamed.org) and, for the purpose of running spatial MPA analysis and evaluations, they were merged in a unique dataset. Then, they were joined to a tabular list of SPAMI provided by the Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RACSPA), containing information on the names, dates of establishment and general characteristics of the sites (i.e. surface area). This list was received directly through the Secretariat, who is the depository of this information. NB: Reprojection issues have been identified for some polygons (e.g. in islands West of Italy)

The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.

The Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) is more commonly known as Nationally designated areas. The inventory began in 1995 under the CORINE programme of the European Commission. It is now one of the agreed Eionet priority data flows maintained by EEA with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity. It is a result of an annual data flow through Eionet countries. The EEA publishes the data set and makes it available to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA) and to Eurostat. The CDDA data can also 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, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, the North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland. EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Austria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey.

The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.

DK INSPIRE PS Habitat Species Management Areas - service

DK INSPIRE PS Habitat Species Management Areas - service

Consolidated raster containing the original CDDA polygons.

The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.

The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.

DK INSPIRE PS Habitat Species Management Areas - service