Dataset

HELCOM/OSPAR Sweden ports water sampling

EurOBIS MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

This dataset includes the data used in in the HELCOM/OSPAR Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool. This tool was developed in 2013 based on the overall IMO framework, the 21 Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal states and the EU. It allows user to define 'low risk' routes, as well as other necessary steps in granting exemptions under regulation A-4 of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention (BWMC)

Citation: HELCOM/OSPAR Joint Ballast Water Exemptions Decision Support Tool: https://maps.helcom.fi/website/RA_tool/ HELCOM and OSPAR, 2020. 

Published: September 17, 2025 at 09:27

License: To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

URL: https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=helcom_ospar_sweden_ports_water_sampling

Contacts:

Helsinki Commission
Helsinki Commission

OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic
OSPAR Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

3,702
occurrence records
4,380
measurements and facts
488
taxa
326
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,702
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 3,702
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,702
100.0%
scientificNameID 53
1.4%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,702
100.0%
ON_LAND 482
13.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 94
2.5%
NO_MATCH 36
1.0%
MARINE_UNSURE 27
0.7%
NOT_MARINE 15
0.4%

Measurement types

DNA derived data