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WISE WFD Reference Spatial Datasets reported under Water Framework Directive 2016 - PUBLIC VERSION - version 1.7, Jul. 2024

The dataset contains information on the European river basin districts, the river basin district sub-units, the surface water bodies and the groundwater bodies delineated for the 2nd River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as well as the European monitoring sites used for the assessment of the status of the above mentioned surface water bodies and groundwater bodies. The information was reported to the European Commission under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting obligations. The dataset compiles the available spatial data related to the 2nd RBMPs due in 2016 (hereafter WFD2016). See http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/715 for further information on the WFD2016 reporting. See also https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/766 for information on the Environmental Quality Standards Directive - Preliminary programmes of measures and supplementary monitoring. Where available, spatial data related to the 3rd RBMPs due in 2022 (hereafter WFD2022) was used to update the WFD2016 data. See https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/780 for further information on the WFD2022 reporting.

Griechenland verstößt gegen seine Verpflichtung zum Schutz der Meeresschildkröten in der Bucht von Kyparissia

Am 10. November 2016 stellt der Gerichtshof der Europäischen Union fest, dass Griechenland gegen seine Verpflichtung zum Schutz der Meeresschildkröten (Caretta caretta) in der Bucht von Kyparissia verstoßen hat. Eine Richtlinie der Union verpflichtet die Mitgliedstaaten, zur Sicherung der Artenvielfalt durch die Erhaltung der wildlebenden Tiere beizutragen. In diesem Rahmen müssen die Mitgliedstaaten alle Maßnahmen treffen, die für die Einrichtung eines strengen Schutzsystems für bestimmte Tierarten notwendig sind.

10-Jahres-Plan zum Schutz der Fischbestände im Mittelmeer beschlossen

Am 30. März 2017 nach monatelangen Verhandlungen erreichte die Europäische Kommission eine 10-Jahres-Verpflichtung, um die Fischbestände im Mittelmeer zu erhalten und den ökologischen und wirtschaftlichen Reichtum der Region zu schützen. Die MedFish4Ever-Erklärung von Malta enthält ein detailliertes Arbeitsprogramm für die nächsten 10 Jahre auf der Grundlage ehrgeiziger, aber realistischer Ziele. Sie ist das Ergebnis eines von der Europäischen Kommission im Februar 2016 in Catania (Sizilien) eingeleiteten Prozesses. Wichtige Meilensteine umfassten eine erste Ministerkonferenz der für Mittelmeerfischerei zuständigen Minister im April 2016, die Jahrestagung der GFCM im Juni 2016 und die GFCM-Zwischentagung im September 2016. Die folgenden Parteien waren bei der MedFish4Ever- Ministerkonferenz auf Malta vertreten: Europäische Kommission, 8 Mitgliedstaaten (Spanien, Frankreich, Italien, Malta, Slowenien, Kroatien, Griechenland, Zypern), 7 Drittstaaten (Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien, Ägypten, Türkei, Albanien, Montenegro), die FAO, die GFCM, das Europäische Parlament und der regionale Beirat für das Mittelmeer.

EU27_2020 basemap for EEA internal use

This Discomap web map service provides an EU-27 (2020) basemap for internal EEA use as a background layer in viewers or any other web application. It is provided as REST and as OGC WMS services, dynamic and cached. The cached service has a custom cache at the following scales: 1/50.000.000 1/42.000.000 1/36.000.000 (Europe's size) 1/30.000.000 1/20.000.000 1/10.000.000 1/5.000.000 1/2.500.000 1/1.000.000.

Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity modelling, Jan. 2020

The raster dataset of urban heat island modelling shows the fine-scale (100m pixel size) temperature differences (in degrees Celsius °C) across 100 European cities, depending on the land use, soil sealing, anthropogenic heat flux, vegetation index and climatic variables such as wind speed and incoming solar radiation. In the framework of the Copernicus European Health contract for the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), VITO provided 100m resolution hourly temperature data (2008-2017) for 100 European cities, based on simulations with the urban climate model UrbClim (De Ridder et al., 2015). As the cities vary in size, so do the model domains. They have been defined with the intention to have a more or less constant ratio of urban vs. non-urban pixels (as defined in the CORINE land use map), with a maximum of 400 by 400 pixels (due to computational restraints). From this data set, the average urban heat island intensity is mapped for the summer season (JJA), which is the standard way of working in the scientific literature (e.g. Dosio, 2016). The UHI is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 temperature value from the average temperature map. The 100 European cities for the urban simulations were selected based on user requirements within the health community.

Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity (90th percentile), Jan. 2020

This vector dataset shows the Urban Heat Island (UHI) intensity (in degrees Celsius °C) for 100 European cities, based on their elevation above sea level, land use, soil sealing, vegetation index and anthropogenic heat flux. The Urban Heat Island intensity exacerbates high temperatures in cities and thus may pose additional risks to human thermal comfort and health. The UHI intensity is represented by spatial P90 (90th percentile) urban heat island intensity of a given city ("P90" field in the dataset). This indicator is calculated by subtracting the rural (non-water) spatial P10 (10th percentile) temperature value from the average, height-corrected (to exclude terrain effects), air temperature map. This indicator represents the specific exposure of single cities and due to the height correction will be comparable across Europe. The dataset has been created by VITO within the Copernicus Health contract for C3S and is based on UrbClim model (De Ridder et al. 2015). The 100 European cities for the urban simulations were selected based on user requirements within the health community.

Area inundated with 1m sea level rise, Jan. 2020

The dataset shows the percentage of cities' administrative area (core city based on the Urban Morphological Zones dataset) inundated by the sea level rise of 1 metre, without any coastal flooding defences present for a series of individual coastal European cities (included in Urban Audit). The dataset has been computed using the CReSIS (Centre for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets) dataset for 2018.

Area inundated with 2m sea level rise, Jan. 2020

This metadata refers to a dataset that shows the percentage of cities' administrative area (core city based on the Urban Morphological Zones dataset) inundated by the sea level rise of 2 metres, without any coastal flooding defences present for a series of individual coastal European cities (included in Urban Audit). The dataset has been computed using the CReSIS (Centre for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets) dataset for 2018.

Concentrations of heavy metals in European agricultural soils, Oct. 2020

This data set contains current and critical metal concentrations and its exceedances in topsoils, as well as data related to the current and critical metal inputs to and outputs from soils (uptake, accumulation and leaching) and the resulting exceedances of critical metal inputs. This data set has been compiled by the European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soil Systems (ETC/ULS) in the context of a study on metal and nutrient dynamics where the fate and dynamics of the most abundant heavy metals and nutrients in agricultural soils were investigated. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of agricultural intensification in Europe, and to understand its environmental impact. Metal concentrations in soils were used from two consecutive Europe-wide geochemical surveys, sampled in 1998 (FOREGS survey) and 2009 (GEMAS survey). For land use, the 2010 Eurostat data were used. The metals included in this data set are cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb) and zinc (Zn). The results on the fate of Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P) are included in a separate dataset. Cu and Zn are minor nutrients but at high inputs, they may cause adverse impacts on soil biodiversity, whereas Cd and Pb are toxic metals that may lead to soil degradation, by both affecting soil biodiversity and food quality. Metal budgets based on spatially explicit input and output data were calculated using the INTEGRATOR model; approximately 40,000 so-called NCUs as unique combinations of soil type, administrative region, slope class and altitude class were used. Available critical limits for food, water and soil organisms, from different existing regulations and studies, were converted to soil property-dependent critical metal concentrations (soil-based quality standards), which were then used to calculate critical metal inputs. The results allow for the first time to identifying spatial hot spots for critical environmental impact of soil pollution for the four most abundant heavy metals. It thus informs policy processes important for planning and guiding sustainable agriculture and soil management. The work is methodologically novel, as it applies endpoint risk to thresholds in soils, and thus guides future impact studies. Updates with more recent land use and soil data are now possible. The description of the included model results and the reference report is provided under "lineage". The data set is provided as SHP and also in a GDB, the latter including as well the N and P concentrations. An Excel file "Metadata heavy metals nutrients.xlsx" with the attribute metadata is provided with the data set.

Marine Reporting Units used in Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) for the 2018 reporting - INTERNAL - version 3.0, Jun. 2023

The Marine Reporting Units (MRUs) are used within the reporting obligations of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in order to link the reported information for implementation of the different articles (e.g., Article 8 assessments, Article 13 measures) to specific areas of the Member State’s marine waters. Version 3.0 includes the MRUs used for the MSFD 2018 reporting on updates of Articles 8, 9 and 10. In addition to the twenty countries included in version 2.0 of the dataset (BE, CY, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, HR, IE, IT, LT, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI), this version includes three additional countries, namely BG, EL and UK, thereby providing MRUs for all 23 Member States which have marine waters. The MRUs can be of varying sizes, according to the appropriate scale for the different reports (e.g., Member State’s entire marine waters, WFD coastal water bodies), or subdivisions of an MSFD marine region or subregion. For the 2018 reporting, some Member States reported different (sets of) MRUs for Article 8 assessments for different MSFD Descriptors, while others used a single (set of) MRUs for all Descriptors. Further, some Member States reported MRUs which extended beyond their marine waters (e.g., as used for Regional Sea Convention and ICES assessments).

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