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OSPAR Network of Marine Protected Areas (OSPAR)

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This API provides data on Spain's contribution to the OSPAR Network of Marine Protected Areas, established under the 1998 Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, which builds on the 1972 Oslo and 1974 Paris Conventions. Member states propose protected marine areas within their jurisdictional waters, including exclusive economic zones. The dataset covers Spanish sites incorporated over time: Cíes Islands (2008), El Cachucho (2009), most remaining areas (2014), and the Avilés Submarine Canyons and Gulf of Cádiz Fango Volcanoes (2017). It is published by IEPNB (Inventario Español del Patrimonio Natural y la Biodiversidad).The convention on the protection of the marine environment in the North-East Atlantic, which entered into force in 1998, has as one of the current priority lines of work the creation of a Network of Marine Protected Areas in the waters covered by the agreement where marine areas that meet certain environmental requirements can be included. To this end, member states have the obligation to propose areas of interest within their respective jurisdictional waters, including the exclusive economic zone or those marine areas where the state exercises its sovereignty. It complements and updates the 1972 Oslo Convention on discharges into the sea and the 1974 Paris Convention on land-based marine pollution. Cíes Islands were incorporated in 2008; in 2009, El Cachucho; in 2014, the rest of the spaces that make up this data set were incorporated, except for the Submarine Cannons of Avilés and Volcanoes of Fango del Golfo de Cádiz, which were incorporated in 2017.