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HELCOM/OSPAR Sweden ports water sampling
Citation
HELCOM/OSPAR Joint Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool: https://maps.helcom.fi/website/RA_tool/ HELCOM and OSPAR, 2020. . https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8626
Contact: OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic ; Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)

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Description

This dataset includes the data used in in the HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool. This tool was developed in 2013 based on the overall IMO framework, the 21 Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal states and the EU. It allows user to define 'low risk' routes, as well as other necessary steps in granting exemptions under regulation A-4 of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC)


Scope
Themes:
Biology
Keywords:
Biota, Data non conformant, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, National, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Swedish Coast

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 11,2899; MinLat: 55,3709 - MaxLong: 18,6555; MaxLat: 59,3 [WGS84]
Swedish Coast [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
16 August 2013 - 19 September 2019

Contributors
OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlanticdata provider
Helsinki Commission (HELCOM)data provider

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2024-07-19
Information last updated: 2024-08-26
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