HELCOM marine protected areas 2010 (vector) - version 1, Mar. 2013

This dataset is compiled from data submitted by HELCOM Contracting States. It includes the borders of designated Baltic Sea Protected Areas. The designation is based on the HELCOM Recommendation 15/5 (1994). During 2009-2010 the data was up-dated within a project to analyse the ecological coherence of the HELCOM protected areas network. The current version of the dataset was created updating an older version of the BSPA shape file. New shapes were supplied by the Contracting States. The dataset was created in the scope of the assessment on the ecological coherence of the Baltic Sea MPA networks. Results are published in "HELCOM 2010. Towards an ecologically coherent network of well-managed Marine Protected Areas – Implementation report on the status and ecological coherence of the HELCOM BSPA network. Balt. Sea Environ. Proc. No. 124B".The Attribute "Site ID" has to be used to link the data to the HELCOM BSPA Database.