99869345-d8b0-4933-a9d0-3c9e08055c4a European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T11:05:22.249392Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:4258 Marine Reporting Units used in Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 2012-2018 reporting cycle - version 1.0, Feb. 2020 2019-12-27 creation 2020-02-28 publication 01.00 eea_v_4258_100_k_mru-msfd2012_i_2012-2018_v01_r00 The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the implementation of the different articles to specific marine areas. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g. region, sub-region, regional or sub-regional subdivision, Member State marine waters, WFD coastal waters, etc.), as indicated in the Good Environmental Status 2017 Decision. The present data set is the first public version released of the MRUs used during the first cycle of implementation of the MSFD (2012-2018) in all the reporting exercises (2012 reporting of Articles 8, 9 and 10; 2014 reporting of Article 11; and 2016 reporting of Articles 13 & 14). The data set is distributed in SHP and in INSPIRE-compliant GML format. superseded European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Environment Agency public website pointOfContact European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu custodian https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/99869345-d8b0-4933-a9d0-3c9e08055c4a.png Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Marine Strategy Framework Directive marine environment sea GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Mediterranean Sea Black Sea Baltic Sea Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W) Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17T12:00:00 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope Directive 2008/56/EC Marine reporting units (Marine Strategy Framework Directive) INSPIRE priority data set 2018-06-12T11:16:28 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistPriorityDataset-PriorityDataset Seas and coasts EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics /Métropole /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord /Métropole/Mers Celtiques /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale Sous-regions marines geonetwork.thesaurus.local.place.dcsmm.area /Actions concrètes Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Activités et Usages/Analyse économique et sociale Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Données administratives Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee /Données dérivées/Références statistiques Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee Directive Cadre Stratégie pour le Milieu Marin (DCSMM) Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire no limitations to public access License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). 8ee108bc-6b08-48ac-bc5a-45a5cd6b5a6c vector 100000 environment oceans -23.948139 35.193889 24.593545 65.907521 2012-10-16 2018-10-15 SHP GML 3.2.1 D2.8.III.11 INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units – Technical Guidelines https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/99869345-d8b0-4933-a9d0-3c9e08055c4a WWW:URL Direct download (Eionet authentication) https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/INSPIRE/GMLMarine/atomMarineReportingUnits.xml WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download INSPIRE-compliant Atom Service Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification true The present MRUs data set is a compilation of the layers submitted by Member States (in SHP format) to the European Commission during the reporting exercises of the first cycle of implementation of the MSFD. The reporting exercises were due by 15/10/2012 (Articles 8, 9 and 10), by 15/10/2014 (Article 11) and by 31/03/2016 (Articles 13 & 14). The pan-European data set has been created in GML following the INSPIRE 'Area management / restriction / regulation zones and reporting units' theme data specifications (available at https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/id/document/tg/am). For the development of the GML, a number of fields have been included and filled in with the criteria described in the document 'Development of a pan-European data set of Marine Reporting Units' (file "Documentation_MRUs_v1-1.pdf" provided with the data set). The data set has also been published as an INSPIRE-compliant ATOM web service. A shapefile format version has also been produced.