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.

Date (Publication): 2014-01-01

Date (Revision): 2014-01-01

Date (Creation): 2016-10-11

Citation identifier: ospar_mpa_2014_01

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Office français de la biodiversité / German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation		admin@maia-network.org	Owner

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Protected sites

GEMET

environmental protection
mer

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

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 2006-03-31

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

Name	Version
unknown	unknown

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://mpa.ospar.org/

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Domain consistency

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: 2016-10-12T15:21:11Z

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115-3:2018

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Office français de la biodiversité		secretariat@ospar.org admin@maia-network.org	Point of contact

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