List of available maps

1. Legal framework

1.1. Delimitation of areas under Belgian jurisdiction

• The Belgian marine area within the North Sea
• The Territorial Sea and the Economic Exclusive Zone (12 nautical miles limit)

1.2. Marine Protected Areas under International Conventions and Directives

• Special Area of Conservation (SAC) under the Habitat Directive (92/43/EEC) and Special Protection Areas (SPA) under the Birds Directive (79/409/EEC)
• The "Managed Marine Reserve"
• Designated Wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention: the "Kustbanken" (coastal banks)

2. Hydrodynamic characteristics of the Belgian Continental Shelf

• Bathymetry
• Sandbanks
• Mean tidal currents

3. Human activities

• Waterways and anchoring zone
• Mineral resources control zones and zones closed for sand extraction
• Dredging and dumping zones and war munitions deposit zone
• Military exercise zones
• Communication cables and gas pipelines
• Windmills: current projects within the designated zone
• Mariculture: designated zones
• Wrecks with ecological value
• Waypoints used for Belgian fisheries control flights
• Waypoints used for Belgian pollution control flights