Nationally designated areas - CDDA - (EMODnet)

The Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) was created in 2014 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network. It is entirely based on GIS Data from the European Environmental Agency's (EEA), plus external links and selected EEA tabular data joined by Cogea to the feature attributes, as well as a calculation by Cogea of marine and coastal location of features.The CDDA is 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 the EEA with support from the European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity. It is the result of an annual data flow through Eionet countries. The EEA publishes the dataset and makes it available to the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). CDDA data can also be queried online in the European Nature Information System (EUNIS).The whole dataset is available for download on the EMODnet Human Activities portal. In the webmap the EEA dataset has been filtered by Cogea to show only (i) marine areas, i.e. areas with a marine percentage higher than 0 and/or a marine "ecotype" (as calculated or reported by the EEA) and (ii) areas that, even if not identified as marine by the EEA, intersect the coastline or that are within a distance of 1 km from the coastline. In both cases the coast_mar field value=1. The EEA coastline dataset is available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-coastline-for-analysis-2. Geographical coverage of GIS vector boundary data is: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo under UNSC Resolution 1244/99, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom. EEA does not have permission to distribute some or all sites reported by Estonia, Finland, Ireland and Turkey. Compared with the previous release, this one includes the updated dataset 'CDDA_2019_v01', published by the EEA in June 2019. For further information please visit the EEA's website.

Data and Resources

Additional Info

Field Value
Original title
Original abstract
Topic category
  • protected_areas
Sub category National Protected Areas
Resource language English
Domain area
  • European Seas
Owner EEA
Provider emodnet
Data portal EMODnet
Presentation form Map (map represented in raster or vector form)
Spatial representation Vector - polygon
Coordinate reference system epsg:4326 - WGS84 (degree)
Web services
  • OGC-WMS
  • OGC-WFS
Derives from
Derived datasets
Successor of
Predecessor of
Temporal extent
2019-06-30
Spatial extent
Data accessibility Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and the EEA) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website. Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA); Estonian Environmental Register 01.01.2019; ©Finnish Environment Institute, 2018; Land Burgenland, Land Kärnten, Land Niederösterreich, Land Oberösterreich, Land Salzburg, Land Steiermark, Land Tirol, Land Vorarlberg, Stadt Wien aggregated by Austrian Environment Agency.
Validation level
Additional information https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/nationally-designated-areas-national-cdda-13#tab-european-data
Metadata completeness Complete
Notes The dataset at the EEA Data and Maps is more updated: http://catalogue.msp-supreme.eu/msp-data/nationally-designated-areas-cdda

Additional info - MSP - Environment

Species, habitats, ecosystems, pressures

Field Value
MSFD Classes
    MSFD Descriptors/Criteria
      Non MSFD Classes
        WFD

          Additional info - MSP - Oceanographic and CC

          Physics, biochemistry, EOV, ECV

          Field Value
          Variables

            Additional info - MSP - Conservation

            Protected areas, OECM, IBA, EBSA, CCH, IMMA, ...

            Field Value
            Types Nationally designated Protected Areas (marine and coastal)
            Zonation No

            Additional info - MSP - Maritime activities

            Aquaculture, fishing, transport, energy, ...

            Field Value
            Activity types

              Additional info - MSP - Coastal & Land use and planning

              Land use, land cover, planning (strategic, coordination, operational)

              Field Value
              Types

                Additional info - MSP - Socio-economic

                Living and non-living resources, shipping, tourism, energy, ...

                Field Value
                Activity types
                  Value types
                    Categories

                    Additional info - MSP - Ecosystem Services

                    Provisioning, regulation & maintenance, cultural

                    Field Value
                    CICES classes

                      Additional info - MSP - Legal, Governance & Planning

                      Strategic, legislation, planning, administrative, enforcement

                      Field Value
                      Themes Conservation (i.e. Protected areas)
                      Functions
                        Who is in charge?

                        Additional info - MSP - Relevance

                        Relevance of the dataset / resource in supporting the MSP process at different spatial scales and temporal frames

                        Field Value
                        Relevance (spatial and temporal)
                        • International - present - High
                        • International - future - High
                        • National - present - High
                        • National - future - High
                        • Sub-area - present - High
                        • Sub-area - future - High
                        • Local - present - High
                        • Local - future - High