Greece_assessmentareas_20121015
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Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change - Special Secretariat for Water
ch955ch955@gmail.com
pointOfContact
2012-10-13
ISO19115
2003/Cor.1:2006
Boundaries of assessment areas used for Hellenic Republic's b reporting against the different elements required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
2012-04-30
revision
2012-10-12
creation
Greece_assessmentareas_20121015
http://wfd.ypeka.gr
The dataset contains boundaries (polygons) of assessment areas used for Hellenic Republic's b reporting against the different elements required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Hellenic Republic's marine waters occupy parts of three subregions identified in the Directive, namely: the Adriatic Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean-Levantine Sea. Eight (8) assessment areas have been identified and used within the Directive's reporting context. The delineation was made in order to implement the Directive by reference to areas at the appropriate level of the marine waters (taking into account the need to define ecologically relevant regions, to support the ecosystem-based approach mandated by the MSFD). The delineation was made in manner compatible with Directive's Article 4(2) context in conjunction with criteria defined in Article 3. Additionally, Directive’s overall framework was taken into account, meaning that the initial assessment will be followed by the GES determination, monitoring programs and program of measures. The assessment areas are provided as polygons (one polygon per assessment area). For the legal context regarding the outer limits of assessment areas, please refer also to the abstract and lineage information of the dataset 'Boundaries of marine waters used for Hellenic Republic's b reporting against the different elements required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)'.
Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change - Special Secretariat for Water
ch955ch955@gmail.com
pointOfContact
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Administrative units
Sea regions
Oceanographic geographical features
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
The data are submitted to the EU for the purposes of Hellenic Republic’s obligation to report under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The dataset, was created based on boundary datasets (Hellenic Republic’s coastline, territorial sea and continental shelf) provided to the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change - Special Secretariat for Water by the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service. These datasets are maintained and updated at the source level by the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service. Consequently, the terms, conditions, intelectual property rights etc laid down by the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service aplly. More information can be found http://www.hnhs.gr/portal/page/portal/HNHS/Terms. The delineation between the assessment areas (internal limits), was made by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change - Special Secretariat for Water.
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(b) international relations, public security or national defence
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2012-10-11
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http://wfd.ypeka.gr
dataset
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata
2008-12-04
publication
See the referenced specification
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Corrigendum to INSPIRE Metadata Regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L 328, page 83
2009-12-15
publication
See the referenced specification
true
The dataset was created by the Special Secretariat for Water (Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change) to be submitted for Hellenic Republic's reporting against the different elements required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The dataset is based on the geometry of coastline, territorial sea and continental shelf datasets provided to the Secretariat by the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service. These datasets refer to different scales with shoreline having an approximate equivalent scale of 1:90.000 (generalization of the 1:50.000 coastline dataset) while territorial sea and continental shelf made up from the 1:50.000 coastline dataset. Harmonization was performed between the coastline and the outer boundary of the continental shelf. An equivalent scale of 1:100.000 should be considered as most appropriate for the dataset. Data was reprojected from the GGRS87 projection (EPSG:2100) to the ETRS89 CRS (EPSG:3035), using parameters published by Ktimatologio S.A. in the "Coordinate Transformation Model between the HEPOS (HTRS07) and the GGRS87, October 2008". The delineation was based on the existing data in international literature regarding sea region limits, as well as taking into account hydrological, oceanographic and biogeographic features. Other sources were used, including the International Hydrographic Organization’s “Limits of Oceans and Seas” (1953), “A new bathymetric chart and physiography of the Mediterranean Sea” (Carter, G.T. et al, 1972), Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service’s maps in combination with the Hellenic Republic’s marine waters description which are described in the ‘Boundaries of marine waters used for Hellenic Republic's reporting against the different elements required by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)’ dataset. For their definition the following were used: Territorial sea: Greece has currently a 6 n.m. territorial sea (c.f. Law No. 230 of 17 September 1936) whilst at the same time has reserved its right to extend its territorial sea to the maximum permissible breadth under international law, i.e. 12 n.m. Continental shelf: According to article 2, par. 1 of Law No. 2289/1995 "on prospecting exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons and other provisions", as amended by Law No. 4001/2011: “In the absence of a delimitation agreement with neighboring States, whose coasts are opposite or adjacent to the coasts of the Hellenic Republic, the outer limit of the continental shelf and of the exclusive economic zone (once declared) is the median line, every point of which is equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines (both continental and insular) from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. Maritime boundary agreements: a) The 1926 Protocol of Athens delimits the lateral boundary between Greece and Turkey seaward of Evros river; b) in the Dodekanese area, the boundary is delimited by the two 1932 agreements between Italy and Turkey, to which Greece is a successor State, namely, the "Agreement of 4th January 1932 concering sovereignty over islets between the coasts of Anatolia and the island of Castellorizo, as well as over the islet Kara-Ada and on the delimitation of the territorial waters surrounding the said territories and, in execution of this agreement, the process verbal of 28th of December 1932; c) in the Ionian Sea, Greece and Italy concluded in 1977 an agreement on the delimitation of their continental shelf, and d) in 2009, Greece and Albania signed an agreement on the delimitation of their continental shelf and other maritime zones to which they are entitled under international law.