Annex III

1. Statistical units
   Units for dissemination or use of statistical information.
2. Buildings
   Geographical location of buildings.
3. Soil
   Soils and subsoil characterised according to depth, texture, structure and content of particles and organic material, stoniness, erosion, where appropriate mean slope and anticipated water storage capacity.
4. Land use
   Territory characterised according to its current and future planned functional dimension or socio-economic purpose (e.g. residential, industrial, commercial, agriculture, forestry, recreational).
5. Human health and safety
   Geographical distribution of dominance of pathologies (allergies, cancers, respiratory diseases, etc), information indicating the effect on health (biomarkers, decline of fertility, epidemics) or well being of humans (fatigue, stress, etc.), linked directly (air pollution, chemicals, depletion of the ozone layer, noise etc.) or indirectly (food, genetically modified organisms, etc) to the quality of the environment.
6. Utility and governmental services
   Includes utility facilities such as sewage, waste management, energy supply and water supply, administrative and social governmental services such as public administrations, civil protection sites, schools and hospitals.
7. Environmental Monitoring Facilities
   Location and operation of environmental monitoring facilities includes observation and measurement of emissions of the state of environmental media and of other ecosystem parameters (biodiversity, ecological conditions of vegetation, etc.) by or on behalf of public authorities.
8. Production and industrial facilities
   Industrial production sites, including installations covered by Council Directive 96/61/EC of 24 September 1996 concerning integrated pollution prevention and control and water abstraction facilities, mining, storage sites.
9. Agriculture and aquaculture facilities
   Farming equipment and production facilities including irrigation systems, greenhouses and stables.
10. Population distribution – demography
    Geographical distribution of people, including population characteristics and activity levels, aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical units.
11.  Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
    Areas managed, regulated or used for reporting at international, European, national, regional and local levels. Includes dumping sites, restricted areas around drinking water sources, nitrate-vulnerable zones, regulated fairways at sea or large inland waters, areas for the dumping of waste, noise restriction zones, prospecting and mining permit areas, river basin districts, relevant reporting units and coastal zone management areas.
12. Natural risk zones
    Vulnerable areas characterised according to natural hazards (all atmospheric, hydrologic, seismic, volcanic and wildfire phenomena that, because of their location, severity and frequency, have the potential to affect society), e.g. floods landslides and subsidence, avalanches, forest fires, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions.
13. Atmospheric conditions
    Physical conditions in the atmosphere. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination thereof and includes measurement locations.
14. Meterological geographical features
    Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction.
15. Oceanographic geographical features
    Physical conditions of oceans (currents, salinity, wave heights etc.).
16. Sea regions
    Physical conditions of seas and saline water bodies divided into regions and sub regions with common characteristics.
17. Bio-geographical regions
    Areas of relatively homogeneous ecological conditions with common characteristics.
18.  Habitats and biotopes
    Geographical areas characterised by specific ecological conditions, processes, structure and (life support) functions that physically support the organisms that live there.  Includes terrestrial and aquatic areas distinguished by geographical, abiotic and biotic features, whether entirely natural or semi-natural.
19. Species distribution
    Geographical distribution of occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical units.
20. Energy resources
    Energy resources including hydrocarbons, hydropower, bio-energy, solar, wind, etc., where relevant including height information on the extent of the resource.
21. Mineral resources
    Mineral resources including metal ores, industrial minerals, etc., where relevant including depth/height information on the extent of the resource.