Marine reporting units

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Marine reporting units

Layer Info
Category	Management
Sub-category	Governance

Description

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.

Source: EEA geospatial data catalogue, accessed on 2022-03-22.

MSP Challenge

At the moment the Marine Reporting Units is just a static layer, key performance indicators refer to a EEZ or a region depending on the KPIs.

Back to Governance.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the North Sea Edition.

Digitwin Edition

Types

• Meuse Territorial Water
• Ems Territorial Water
• Scheldt Territorial Water
• Rhine West Territorial Water
• Rhine North Territorial Water
• Wadden Sea
• Wadden Sea Coast Mainland
• Ems Coastal Water
• Scheldt Coastal Water
• Meuse Coastal Water
• Rhine West Coastal Water
• Rhine North Coastal Water

Metadata

Data Source

Rijkswaterstaat

Original Title

"mariene_rapportage_eenheden_nederland "

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

01/2025

Methodology

1. Only the smaller individual reporting areas are represented in the game
2. Left over reporting units (n=12) where simplified in Mapshaper to 1.4% to reduce file size and number of nodes
3. Colors from original Rijkswaterstaat WFS where applied to same units.

Sand Extraction Edition

The sand extraction edition uses the same data as the digitwin edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Baltic Sea Edition.

Not applicable.

This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Types

• Northern Adriatic Sea
• Central Adriatic Sea
• Southern Adriatic Sea

Metadata

Data Source

ISPRA ministry of environment.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available. Provided on 2021-02-11.

Methodology

The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR).

Not applicable.

This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.