Northern Ireland Special Protection Areas

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are designated under the European Commission Directive on the Conservation of Wild Birds. All European Community member States are required to identify internationally important areas for breeding, over-wintering and migrating birds and designate them as Special Protection Areas (SPAs).

Alternate title: N.I. SAC

Date (Creation): 2013-01-01T00:00:00

Date (Publication): 2013-01-01T00:00:00

Date (Revision): 2013-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier: PS.IE.EPA.PROT_NISPA

Purpose: To report on and manage Special Protection Area designations within Northern Ireland.Test

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs	Main contact	daeradirect.armagh@daera-ni.gov.uk	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GemetInspireTheme

Protected sites

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

protection of animals
protection of species
protection of birds
wildlife protection
terrestrial ecosystem
biodiversity
ecological
habitat
ecology
animal species
wildlife sanctuary

Environmental Protection Agency

Special Protection Area
SPA

ISO 3166

Northern Ireland

Use limitation: Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0

Access constraints: License

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Biota

Begin date: 1980-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2014-01-24T00:00:00

Vertical extent

Minimum value: 0

Maximum value: 1014

Vertical CS

No information provided.

Vertical datum

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

Distribution format

Name	Version
ESRI Shapefile	10.x

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency	Informatics	gis@epa.ie	Publisher

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
image/png	http://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&version=1.1.0&request=GetMap&layers=EPA:PROT_NISPA&styles=&bbox=197363.0,308954.0529999994,368479.53000000026,454000.1099999994&width=768&height=650&srs=EPSG:29902&format=image%2Fpng	WMS GetMap

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on Protected sites

Alternate title: INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.2

Date (Publication): 2014-04-17

Explanation: The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: 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

Alternate title: INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: Level of conformance with the 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

Pass: No

Statement: The Conservation Objectives for these sites have been reviewed and are available for download and view from the DAERA website - https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/search/type/publication?query=Special%20Protection%20Area