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Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
Citation
Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), & Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell. (2021). Nature conservation areas in the Belgian Part of the North Sea [Data set]. Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC). https://doi.org/10.24417/9f4131b6-7895-403a-a17e-6bb33befaf16
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description
The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 5 nature conservation areas: Special area for conservation 'The Flemish Banks' (Art. 7§1), Special area for conservation 'Vlakte van de Raan' (Art. 7§3), Special protection area for birds - SPA 1 (Art. 7§5.1°), Special protection area for birds - SPA 2 (Art. 7§5.2°), Special protection area for birds - SPA 3 (Art. 7§5.3°). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 7., six nature conservation sites: two special areas for conservation (Art. 7. §1, Special area for conservation 'Vlaamse Banken' and Art. 7. §3, Special area for conservation 'Trapegeer stroombank'), three special protection zones for birds (Art7§4.1°, SBZ1, Art7§4.2°, SBZ2, Art7§4.3°, SBZ3), and one marine reserve (Art7§8, Marine reserve 'Baai van Heist'). These zones are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.

Scope
Themes:
Geography
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Development planning, Economic planning, Environmental planning, Marine conservation area, Marine Spatial Plan, Protected sites, Belgian part of the North Sea

Geographical coverage
Belgian part of the North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
From 1 January 2014 on [In Progress]

Contributors
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), moredata manager
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), moredata ownerdataset publisher

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: GIS maps
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2024-03-04
Information last updated: 2024-03-07
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy