The data set includes the noise contours which have been reported by countries under the terms of the Environmental Noise Directive (END) by the 33 EEA member countries (EEA-33) excluding Turkey for the third round of noise mapping in 2017. The data set includes submissions from the countries until 01/01/2019. According to the END, for major sources of noise (i.e. major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicle passages a year, major railways with more than 30 000 train passages per year and airports with more than 50 000 movements per year), countries have to submit noise contour maps for at least the >55 dB, >65 dB bands. Noise contour maps for roads, railways, airports and industries in urban agglomerations of more than 100 000 inhabitants need to be represented for at least 60, 65, 70 and 75 dB bands for the day-evening-night period. The data set is provided in GDB and GPKG files, with all the reported noise contours in vector format by country or region/state (in the case of BE and DE), for major sources at agglomeration level and national level and for both indicators Lden (day-evening-night noise level: the long-term average indicator designed to assess annoyance defined by the END; it refers to an A-weighted average sound pressure level over all days, evenings and nights in a year, with an evening weighting of 5 dB and a night weighting of 10 dB) and Lnight (night noise level: the long-term average indicator defined by the END and designed to assess sleep disturbance; it refers to an A-weighted annual average night period of exposure).

The data set includes noise exposure data reported by countries under the terms of the Environmental Noise Directive (END) by the 33 EEA member countries (EEA-33) excluding Turkey for the third round of noise mapping in 2017. The data set includes submissions from the countries until 01/01/2019. The data used cover noise sources specified in the END, such as major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicle passages a year, mejor railways with more than 30 000 train passages per year and airports with more than 50 000 movements per year, as well as all roads, railways, airports and industries in urban agglomerations of more than 100 000 inhabitants.

The data set includes the rasterized noise contours which have been reported by countries under the terms of the Environmental Noise Directive (END) by the 33 EEA member countries (EEA-33) excluding Turkey for the third round of noise mapping in 2017. The data set includes submissions from the countries until 01/01/2019. According to the END, for major sources of noise (i.e. major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicle passages a year, major railways with more than 30 000 train passages per year and airports with more than 50 000 movements per year), countries have to submit noise contour maps for at least the >55 dB, >65 dB bands. Noise contour maps for roads, railways, airports and industries in urban agglomerations of more than 100 000 inhabitants need to be represented for at least 60, 65, 70 and 75 dB bands for the day-evening-night period. Due to its size, the data set is provided in TIFF format (10 m cell size) files by country or region/state (in the case of BE and DE), with the noise contours for major sources at agglomeration level and national level, for both indicators Lden (day-evening-night noise level: the long-term average indicator designed to assess annoyance defined by the END; it refers to an A-weighted average sound pressure level over all days, evenings and nights in a year, with an evening weighting of 5 dB and a night weighting of 10 dB) and Lnight (night noise level: the long-term average indicator defined by the END and designed to assess sleep disturbance; it refers to an A-weighted annual average night period of exposure). View services displaying this data set are used in the NOISE Observation & Information Service for Europe (Noise Viewer), developed and maintained by the EEA (https://noise.eea.europa.eu/).

EuroRegionalMap is a Pan-European topographic vector dataset at scale 1: 250000, that is seamless and harmonized across boundaries. It is produced in cooperation by the National Mapping Agencies of the participating countries using official national databases. Thematic layers: Administrative Boundaries Hydrography Miscellaneous Named Location Settlement Transportation Vegetation and Soil Points of Interests

EuroRegionalMap v9.0 is a pan-European dataset containing topographic information at the scale 1:250 000 covering: 27 EU member states (excluding Croatia), 4 EFTA states (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland), Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Kosovo and Georgia. It is a seamless and harmonised data and is produced in cooperation by the National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies of Europe, using official national databases. Thematic layers: Administrative Boundaries, Hydrography, Settlements, Transport, Points of Interests, Named Location, Miscellaneous, Vegetation and Soil.

EuroRegionalMap (ERM) is a Pan-European topographic vector dataset at scale 1:250000, that is seamless and harmonized across boundaries. It is produced in cooperation by the National Mapping Agencies of the participating countries (NMCAs) using official national databases. Thematic layers: Administrative Boundaries (BND), Hydrography (HYDRO), Miscellaneous (MISC), Named Location (NAME), Settlement (POP), Transportation (TRANS), Vegetation and Soils (VEG) as well as Points of Interest. This metadata refers to the version 11.1 of ERM. For more information about the data product specifications and changes with respect to the previous version of this dataset (ERM v11 and ERMv10), please refer to the documents "ERM_v11-1_DataSpecification_EuroStat.pdf", "ERM_v11_TechnicalGuide.pdf" and "ERM(EC)_v11.1_Lineage_FullEurope.doc" provided with the dataset. Main changes with respect to these previous versions are that the NMCAs updated BND, HYDRO, MISC and NAME thematic layers, and that the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) of the European Commission identified the Trans-European Transport Network for roads, railways, airports, ports and the watercourse system. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata file provided by EuroGeographics and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata file created by EuroGeographics is provided together with the dataset under the "metadata" folder.

EuroRegionalMap (ERM) is a Pan-European topographic vector dataset at scale 1:250000, that is, seamless and harmonized across boundaries. It is produced in cooperation by the National Mapping Agencies of the participating countries (NMCAs) using official national databases. Thematic layers: Administrative Boundaries (BND), Hydrography (HYDRO), Miscellaneous (MISC), Named Location (NAME), Settlement (POP), Transportation (TRANS), Vegetation and Soils (VEG) as well as Points of Interest. This metadata refers to the version 2019 of ERM, with the general reference for the supply being December 2018. The dataset is provided both in GDB and SHP formats. Main changes with respect to versions ERM v11.0 and v11.1 are: - The administrative boundaries have been updated using EBM 2019 as data source. Some countries (Great Britain, Moldova and Romania) have slightly adapted them so to fit with the topographical features of ERM. - Update of transportation, settlement, vegetation themes. - Data from Ukraine as well as French Guiana (GF), Guadeloupe (GP), Martinique (MQ), Reunion (RE), Mayotte (YT), Saint Barthélemy (BL) and Saint Martin (MF) as overseas departments/collectivities of France belonging to the European Union are included in ERM 2019. For more information about the data product specifications please refer to the documents "ERM_2019_DataSpecification_EuroStat.pdf", "ERM_2019_TechnicalGuide.pdf" and "ERM_Eurostat_Lineage_ERM_2019.pdf" provided with the dataset under the link "Documents". IMPORTANT NOTE: This dataset is only to be used internally in the EEA, for the purposes and under the conditions stated under the "Resource Constraints" elements of this metadata file and on the document "LicenseConditions.pdf" provided with this dataset under the link "Documents". This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata file provided by EuroGeographics and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata file created by EuroGeographics is provided together with the dataset under "Documents" link ("ERM_Eurostat_Metadata_ERM_2019.xml" within the "Metadata").