EU Maritime Environmental Measure Records — WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. Europe's marine shipping-and-ports environmental policy measures, as one clean catalogue.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE marine shipping-and-ports measures dataset into clean, per-measure records — the catalogue of environmental policy measures addressing marine shipping and ports across Europe. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per measure: its catalogue code, name, sector, and use/activity, its status, origin, and nature, the water-body category and spatial scope, the country, and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive descriptors it links to. Policy-measure grain, structured for engineering use, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

The EEA's WISE marine information system catalogues the environmental measures that member states apply to shipping and ports — the policy and management responses to marine pressures. This actor reads that catalogue and flattens each measure into a single analysis-ready record: the catalogue code, the measure name (the text describing the measure), the sector and use or activity it addresses, its status, its legal or policy origin, its nature (legislation, management, and so on), the water-body category and spatial scope, the country, what the measure impacts, and the set of MSFD descriptors (D1–D11) it links to. Values are carried verbatim as published. You are billed only for records actually delivered.

Who buys this and for what job

• Maritime-policy, port-authority, and environmental-consulting teams cataloguing the measures that apply to shipping and ports by sector and country.
• ESG, marine-spatial-planning, and compliance products mapping policy measures to MSFD descriptors and marine pressures.
• Researchers and NGOs studying the marine-measure landscape across Europe.
• Data engineers who want the WISE marine measures catalogue as clean rows without writing SQL against the EEA service.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. This rider is carried in this README and on every record. The data is a catalogue of policy measures as published — not a compliance verdict or an assessment of a measure's effectiveness.

Policy-measure grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a policy measure. The measure name is the text of the measure, not a person; the dataset carries no natural-person fields, and this actor emits none, with a person-key guard as a pure backstop. Catalogue codes, measure text, sectors, origins, and descriptor links are the entire payload.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "BD01",
  "catalogue_code": "BD01",
  "measure_name": "Other measures to reduce impacts from marine aquaculture infrastructures and operation",
  "sector": "Ports and traffic",
  "use_or_activity": "Not specified",
  "status": "Taken",
  "measure_origin": "BD (Directive 79/409/EEC)",
  "measure_nature": "not specified",
  "water_body_category": "Not specified",
  "spatial_scope": "Not specified",
  "country": "Germany",
  "measure_impact_to": "Birds",
  "measure_impact_to_details": "Gavia stellata",
  "msfd_descriptors": "D1=1; D2=0; D3=0; D4=0; D5=1; D6=1; D7=0; D8=1; D9=1; D10=0; D11=0",
  "source": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE marine measures",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE marine shipping-and-ports measures data. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE marine measures (shipping & ports) dataset.",
  "disclaimer": "Marine environmental policy-measure records (shipping and ports) as published by the EEA. Policy-measure grain — no natural-person data. Measure descriptions, origins, and MSFD descriptor links are carried VERBATIM as published; this is a catalogue of measures, not a compliance verdict.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:33:03Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
measure_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryContains	string	—	Optional. Keep only measures whose country contains this text.
sectorContains	string	—	Optional. Keep only measures whose sector contains this text (e.g. Traffic, Ports).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per measure. Real example (values as published):

{
  "record_id": "WFD01",
  "catalogue_code": "WFD01",
  "measure_name": "Monitoring, assessment and information before, during and after project ...",
  "sector": "Traffic",
  "use_or_activity": "Navigation dredging",
  "status": "Not specified",
  "measure_origin": "WFD (Directive 2000/60/EC)",
  "measure_nature": "legislation/regulation",
  "water_body_category": "Coastal",
  "spatial_scope": "National",
  "country": "Germany",
  "measure_impact_to": "Habitats",
  "msfd_descriptors": "D1=1; D6=1",
  "source": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE marine measures",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) ... provided the source is acknowledged ...",
  "disclaimer": "Marine environmental policy-measure records ... carried VERBATIM as published ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one policy measure. Identity: record_id / catalogue_code and measure_name. Classification: sector, use_or_activity, status, measure_origin, and measure_nature. Scope: water_body_category, spatial_scope, and country. Impact: measure_impact_to, measure_impact_to_details, and msfd_descriptors (the D1–D11 Marine Strategy Framework Directive descriptors the measure links to, joined verbatim). Provenance: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It then queries the marine-measures master view through the DiscoData SQL service, applies your optional countryContains and sectorContains filters, and flattens each measure to one record — carrying the measure text and descriptor links verbatim, never anything person-shaped — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The measures catalogue holds on the order of 4,600+ policy measures across reporting countries and sectors. Because each record carries the sector, country, and MSFD descriptors, segmenting by sector or country and linking to marine-pressure descriptors is straightforward. Pull one country or sector for a focused view, or the whole catalogue to seed a marine-measures table.

Working with the catalogue

The catalogue is built to be pivoted several ways, and the fields carry the structure to do it. The measure_origin and measure_nature distinguish legislative measures from management or voluntary ones, so a policy analyst can isolate the binding responses from the softer ones in a single filter. The sector and use_or_activity locate each measure against the marine pressure it addresses — navigation dredging, port operations, and the like — while the msfd_descriptors field links the measure to the Marine Strategy Framework Directive descriptors (D1 biodiversity through D11 energy and noise), so the catalogue joins cleanly to any descriptor-keyed marine-status dataset. Because the measure text, its status, and its descriptor links all travel verbatim, two pulls taken apart can be diffed to see which measures were added, retired, or re-scoped between EEA reporting rounds, keeping a downstream measures table current without re-ingesting the whole catalogue.

Cost guidance

One measure_record per delivered measure: cost = measures delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryContains or sectorContains to keep runs bounded. The whole catalogue is ~4,600 measures; 1,000 measures is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• A catalogue, not a verdict. These are policy measures as published — not a compliance judgment or an assessment of effectiveness.
• As published. Measure text, origins, and descriptor links are carried verbatim; this actor reformats, it does not interpret.
• Acknowledge the EEA. The acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is distinct from the fleet's other EEA water and marine cells (bathing water, waste-water, water-body chemistry, nitrate — which carry quality or facility data, not policy measures). Its specific job is the WISE marine shipping-and-ports measures catalogue — the policy responses, measure by measure, linked to MSFD descriptors.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA WISE Waterbase
• EU Bathing Water Quality Records — EEA BWD
• EU Nitrate Monitoring Records — EEA WISE Nitrates
• EU Industrial Emissions Records — EEA IED Facilities
• EU Regulatory Change Records — CELLAR

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE marine measures (shipping & ports) dataset (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. A catalogue of policy measures as published, not a compliance verdict. Measure grain; no person data of any kind.