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DATA ELEMENT RELATED TO A VOCABULARY

Identifier designationTypeCode
Short name designationTypeCode
RegistrationStatus Released 14 December 2018
Reference URL http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/dataelements/latest/designationTypeCode
Name Designation type code
Definition A four character code linked to the legal or other effective means used by countries to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural values. The code consists of the two digit country code and a two digit numerical value.

The regional (sub-national) and national designation type codes are used in the Nationally designated areas (CDDA) reporting format, in the Natura 2000 Standard Data Form and in the Emerald Standard Data Form.

The international designation type codes are related to international obligation such as Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Bern Convention, Barcelona Convention, World Heritage Sites, etc.

The codes are maintained in the Designation type code registry:

http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/cdda/designa...
Methodology for obtaining data This value is required.

The national designation type codes are maintained by the countries on ad hoc basis via the Designation type data collection.

https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/758

It should be reviewed at least annually before the reporting of Nationally designated areas (CDDA).

The national designation type code consists of:
- two-letter country or region code, as defined by the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard, except for Greece and United Kingdom where Eurostat country codes are used instead ('EL' and 'UK' respectively)
- two numerical values starting with '00', indicating "No protection status", and ending with '99', indicating "Others".

The two-letter country or region code must match either the cddaCountryCode or the cddaRegionCode value.

The international designation type codes are the EEA and its ETC/BD. International designation types will have the prefix 'INT' instead of the two-letter country or region code.
Datatype reference
Public or Internal Public attribute
Owner (Accountable)
Responsible
CheckInNo 6
Vocabulary
All valid concepts from the vocabulary Designation type code in the cdda set
(Code = Notation)
Only valid concepts accepted before the release of the data element are used from the vocabulary Designation type code in the cdda set

Vocabulary

Code Label Definition
AD00 No Protection Status
AD01 Hunting Reserve
AD02 Municipal Natural Park
AD99 Other
AL01 National Park (category II)
AL02 Strict Nature Reserve (category I)
AL03 Managed Nature Reserve (category IV IUCN...
AL05 Protected Landscape (category V IUCN)
AL06 Nature Monument (Category III IUCN)
AL09 Resource Reserve (category VI)
AL99 Others
AM00 Not protected
AM01 Reserve
AM02 National park
AM03 Reservation
AM04 Nature monument
AM05 Ecological Network
AM06 Ecological corridor
AM07 Biosphere area
AM08 Specially protected areas lands
AM09 Ecological system, landscape
AM20 Forest range of water objects and water ...
AM21 Protective forests
AM22 Specially protective forests
AM23 Water resources acvatories or water pro...
AM24 The ground layer of The Republican borde...
AM25 Production forest
AM26 Land fund of the Republic of Armenia
AM27 Forests lands
AM28 Agricultural lands
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Tables using this common element

Table Dataset Owner
Designated area CDDA roekama