Significant acute pollution events dataset supporting the 2024 Belgian MSFD assessment of D8C3
This dataset is part of the 2024 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 8, criterion 3. This dataset gives an overview of the observed slicks during aerial survey operations of the Belgian part of the North Sea (2016-2021). Besides this, all observations of illegal discharges of MARPOL annex I and II substances are included as an additional dataset.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-02-13
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-09-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-09-21
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-19
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2933
- Identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
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bmdc.be:dataset:2933
Belgian Marine Data Centre
- Other citation details
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This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Annelore Van Nieuwenhove (n.d.). Illegal MARPOL Annex I and II discharges Report MSFD 2024. (2) Ronny Schallier, Annelore Van Nieuwenhove (n.d.). Significant acute pollution events. (3) Ronny Schallier, Sébastien Legrand (n.d.). The risk of acute pollution Report MSFD 2024.
- Keywords
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- Oceanographic geographical features
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Federal government
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Reporting INSPIRE
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access.
- Use limitation
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No conditions apply to use.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- gml32:beginPosition
- 2020-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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application/vnd.ms-excel
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Unknown
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application/vnd.ms-excel
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Unknown
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Distributor
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.335043
- OnLine resource
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The risk of acute pollution Report MSFD 2024. Ronny Schallier, Sébastien Legrand
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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An HTTP link to view information
Distributor
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.271748
- OnLine resource
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Illegal MARPOL Annex I and II discharges Report MSFD 2024. Annelore Van Nieuwenhove
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
An HTTP link to view information
Distributor
- Name
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application/vnd.ms-excel
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 1.257959
- OnLine resource
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Significant acute pollution events. Ronny Schallier, Annelore Van Nieuwenhove
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
An HTTP link to download this dataset in Excel
- OnLine resource
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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Observations are made during weekly aerial surveillance flights, following the Bonn Agreement methodology (BON-002); illegal discharges of MARPOL Annex I and II substances are logged as a separate dataset. Monitoring is carried out by RBINS (MUMM) under the Bonn Agreement for cooperation in dealing with pollution of the North Sea by oil and other harmful substances, since 1991. Surveillance aircraft with remote and visual/photographic detection of pollution at sea. Interpretation of aerial surveillance data following Bonn Agreement methodology (BON-002).
- File identifier
- bmdc.be:dataset:2933 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-09-21T15:30:34.185Z
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
RBINS metadata catalog