European Structural Fund Areas
European Structural Funds are a series of financial tools set up with the explicit purpose of reducing regional disparities across the EU in terms of income, wealth and opportunity. Scotland’s Structural Fund Programmes for 2014-2020 consists of 2 programme areas: Highlands and Islands (with a GDP between 75% and 90% of the EU average), and the rest of Scotland which is made up of the other three NUTS II (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics3) regions (North Eastern Scotland, Eastern Scotland and South Western Scotland) all of whom have a GDP above 90% of the EU average. The Highlands and Islands has been designated as a transition region and the rest of Scotland as a more developed region. The categorisation of the two areas has an impact on the type of projects that the funds can be used to support.
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
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ESFA
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2014-01-01
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_EuropeanStructuralFundAreas
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Statistical units
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IPSV Subjects List
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European funding
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
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The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
- Other constraints
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This dataset is derived from existing NUTS 2 Areas.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 250000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
- Economy
- Extent
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GB-SCT
ISO 3166-2 2007-12-13
![](https://spatialdata.gov.scot/geonetwork/srv/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((-0.71%2054.63,-0.71%2060.87,-8.8%2060.87,-8.8%2054.63,-0.71%2054.63)))
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
ESRI REST
1.0
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name OGC:WMS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/EconomyFinance/MapServer/WMSServer? EuropeanStructuralFundAreas
OGC:WFS
https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/EconomyFinance/MapServer/WFSServer? EF:EuropeanStructuralFundAreas
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/EconomyFinance/MapServer/0 European Structural Fund Areas
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_EuropeanStructuralFundAreas_2014_2020.zip
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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The European Structural Funds programme areas for 2014-2020 are made up of the following areas:
1) Highland and Islands
2) Rest of Scotland
The areas are defined by the NUTS 2 geography, with the Highlands and Islands NUTS 2 region forming the Highlands and Islands ESFA, and the East, North Eastern and South Western Scotland regions forming the Rest of Scotland ESF programme area.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3049f5c8-bc6d-45b0-bb90-fe3019dfe14c XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2021-03-02T13:31:54
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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GI-SAT
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
- City
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Edinburgh
- Postal code
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
- Role
- Point of contact