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Metadata: UK Disposal Site Layer
Abstract:
A GIS Shapefile showing the extents of the Licenced Marine Disposal Sites for all of UK, including England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Marine Disposal Sites are regulated under the London Convention / London Protocol of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), wherein disposal of waste at sea ("disposal at sea") is prohibited except for certain exempt materials (Annex 1 at `https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/London-Convention-Protocol.aspx`_ [accessed 6th June 2023]). To dispose of an exempt material at sea, a disposal site must be identified, characterised and designated, such that reporting of annual disposal at sea volumes can be made to the IMO biennially, and OSPAR annually. This dataset comprises the repository of these designated sites. Upon designation, a site is considered "Open"; available to that regulator for licensing. If the site has had no licensed disposals in more than 5 years, it is considered "Disused"; available to that regulator for licensing but may require additional supporting evidence. If the site has had no licensed disposals in more than 10 years, it is considered "Closed"; not available to that regulator for licensing. A regulator can also request that an Open or Disused site with disposal activity within 10 years be considered Closed on request. A number of these sites are considered "historic" or "legacy" disposal sites, which whilst being officially designated with the UK's ratification of the London Convention / London Protocol, were used before the treaty came into force. Sites identified, characterised and designated after the UK's ratification are considered new disposal sites. .. _`https://www.imo.org/en/ourwork/environment/pages/london-convention-protocol.aspx`: https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/London-Convention-Protocol.aspx
Data holder:
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS)
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 10939 |
Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | UK Disposal Site Layer |
File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | CEFASd31f7ec5-7690-42db-80f4-b4467692dd19 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | CEFAS407 |
Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2012-01-08 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2022-08-31 |
Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | annually |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | A GIS Shapefile showing the extents of the Licenced Marine Disposal Sites for all of UK, including England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man. Marine Disposal Sites are regulated under the London Convention / London Protocol of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), wherein disposal of waste at sea ("disposal at sea") is prohibited except for certain exempt materials (Annex 1 at `https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/London-Convention-Protocol.aspx`_ [accessed 6th June 2023]). To dispose of an exempt material at sea, a disposal site must be identified, characterised and designated, such that reporting of annual disposal at sea volumes can be made to the IMO biennially, and OSPAR annually. This dataset comprises the repository of these designated sites. Upon designation, a site is considered "Open"; available to that regulator for licensing. If the site has had no licensed disposals in more than 5 years, it is considered "Disused"; available to that regulator for licensing but may require additional supporting evidence. If the site has had no licensed disposals in more than 10 years, it is considered "Closed"; not available to that regulator for licensing. A regulator can also request that an Open or Disused site with disposal activity within 10 years be considered Closed on request. A number of these sites are considered "historic" or "legacy" disposal sites, which whilst being officially designated with the UK's ratification of the London Convention / London Protocol, were used before the treaty came into force. Sites identified, characterised and designated after the UK's ratification are considered new disposal sites. .. _`https://www.imo.org/en/ourwork/environment/pages/london-convention-protocol.aspx`: https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/London-Convention-Protocol.aspx |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Defra - the relevant departmental body of the UK government for the London Convention / London Protocol - commission Cefas to manage this resource in conjunction with the marine licensing framework for the UK under the Marine and Coastal Access Act (2009) and the Scotland Act (1998) and for UK Crown Dependencies. Each sub-national regulator is responsible for the designation of disposal sites within their respective jurisdictions. Each year, Cefas requests each regulator's submission of disposal returns for the previous calendar year, including the designation or amendment of any disposal site. Cefas consolidates this information to report to the IMO and OSPAR secretariats, and upon completing the submission, Cefas run an SQL query to determine for which sites the "status" should be changed. Disposal sites are openly licensable entities, in that they are not owned or leased by developers or port operators, rather they remain areas of the marine environment which are approved by the Crown Estate and sub-national regulators (Marine Management ORganisation, Marine Scotland etc). Data should be used only in WGS84 as circular sites will appear elliptical in other projections. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Human activity |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Advice | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Dredging & disposal | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Human impacts | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Licence | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Monitoring | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Planning | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Waste | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Benthic boundary | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sediment | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 60.75 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 5 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 35 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -35 |
Responsible organisations | ||
Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
City | Lowestoft | |
Administrative area | Suffolk | |
Country | UK | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
City | Lowestoft | |
Administrative area | Suffolk | |
Country | UK | |
Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
City | Lowestoft | |
Administrative area | Suffolk | |
Country | UK | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
Delivery point | Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory, Pakefield Road | |
Postal code | NR33 0HT | |
City | Lowestoft | |
Administrative area | Suffolk | |
Country | UK | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) | |
Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
Organisation name | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/407 |
Locator name | Name of the web resource | Cefas Data Portal |
Dataset constraints | ||
20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | noLimitations | |
21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/codelist/gmxCodelists.xml#MD_RestrictionCode | |
Version info | ||
Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2016-02-02 |
Date of last revision | The most recent date that the resource was revised. | 2023-06-07 |
Date of creation | The date that the resource was created. | 2012-05-14 |
Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2024-04-21 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2023-06-07 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.1 |