{ "snippet": "The present layer provides the spatial extent of Europe's seas, including the MSFD regions and subregions, as agreed by the MSFD Committee in November 2016.", "summary": "The present layer provides the spatial extent of Europe's seas, including the MSFD regions and subregions, as agreed by the MSFD Committee in November 2016.", "accessInformation": "The layer has been developed by the European Topic Center on Inland, Coastal and Marine Waters, in collaboration with the European Environment Agency.", "thumbnail": "", "maxScale": 5000, "typeKeywords": [], "description": "
In the Marine Strategy Framework Directive - MSFD (Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy), four marine regions are listed (Article 4): Baltic Sea, North-east Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, among which the following two are further divided into four subregions each<\/SPAN>. <\/SPAN>Apart of these, there are other seas also surrounding Europe, namely the Norwegian, Iceland, Barents and White Seas.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>", "licenseInfo": "", "catalogPath": "", "title": "Europe's Seas - version 1, November 2018", "type": "", "url": "", "tags": [ "marine", "regions", "subregions", "seas", "oceans", "msfd" ], "culture": "en-GB", "portalUrl": "", "name": "", "guid": "", "minScale": 150000000, "spatialReference": "" }