HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool
This online application serves as a joint regional tool to identify low risk routes for IMO Ballast Water Convention exemptions (A-4) for HELCOM and OSPAR marine areas.
Data are provided following the port survey protocol described in the HELCOM/OSPAR Joint Harmonised Procedure.
The database contains environmental data recorded from OSPAR and HELCOM ports as well as species observations and applies World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) taxonomy. The data model used is based on Darwin Core format, with required extensions added.
The database can be searched, viewed and downloaded using a specific web application. The whole database can be downloaded as a zipped ESRI File geodatabase.
The HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool was further developed in the EU INTERREG Baltic Sea Region project COMPLETE, following work developed with funding through the HELCOM ALIENS 2 and 3 and BALSAM projects by the HELCOM Secretariat and Germany (BSH/Brockmann consult).
The data contained in the database are resulting from various sources and contains also historical legacy data from old projects. Main sources are listed below:
- HELCOM and OSPAR countries national projects
- HELCOM ALIENS 2
- HELCOM ALIENS 3
- HELCOM BALSAM
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-03-30
- Unique resource identifier
- https://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/28cccbda-42ce-417b-aaf7-ce3486ae2aa3
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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GEMET
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species
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biodiversity
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environment
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database
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web application
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Use constraints: Data downloaded from the web application / database can be used freely given that the source (HELCOM) is cited, unless stated differently in the web application, data or metadata.
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access constraints: No limitations on public access.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- English
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2010-01-01 Unknown
- End date
- 2020-12-31 Now
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:3035
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ESRI File geodatabase
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- OnLine resource
- Web access ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Observations and port data, ESRI File Geodatabase ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
- Ports, CSV ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
- Ports, XLSX ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
- OnLine resource
- JHP port survey data report template, XSLM ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The data contained in the database are resulting from various sources and contains also historical legacy data from old projects. Main sources are listed below:
- HELCOM and OSPAR countries national projects
- HELCOM ALIENS 2
- HELCOM ALIENS 3
- HELCOM BALSAM
- File identifier
- 28cccbda-42ce-417b-aaf7-ce3486ae2aa3 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-28T14:31:06