Limits of competence and reporting

Share this page

This theme gathers information on administrative boundaries establishing jurisdiction or defined for reporting purposes. At present, this mainly concerns administrative boundaries in watercourses and the boundary of the preventive archaeology fee.

Updated on 16/05/2023

Map viewer

Transverse limit of the sea

Referent 
ProducerShom
Data providerdata.shom.fr
Metadata

BDML_LIMITE_LTM.xml

Geo services

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wfs/   
LIMITES_TRANSVERSALES_MER_WFS:ltm_3857_arc   
LIMITES_TRANSVERSALES_MER_WFS:ltm_3857_point

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/v   
couche: LIMITES_TRANSVERSALES_MER_WMSV

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/r   
couche: LIMITES_TRANSVERSALES_MER_WMSR

DownloadingLTM.7z
ConstraintsDo not use for navigation - Free use provided that sources are cited. Open Licence (version 2.0 of April 2017), defined by the Etalab mission

 

Saline limit of waters

Referent 
ProducerShom
Data providerdata.shom.fr
Metadata

BDML_LIMITES_LSE.xml

Geo services

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wfs/   
LIMITES_SALURE_EAUX_WFS:lse_3857_arc   
LIMITES_SALURE_EAUX_WFS:lse_3857_point

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/v   
couche: LIMITES_SALURE_EAUX_WMSV  
 

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/r   
couche: LIMITES_SALURE_EAUX_WMSR

DownloadingLSE.7z
ConstraintsDo not use for navigation - Free use provided that sources are cited. Open Licence (version 2.0 of April 2017), defined by the Etalab mission

 

Limit of maritime affairs

Referent 
ProducerShom
Data providerdata.shom.fr
MetadataBDML_LIMITE_LIM.xml
Geo services

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wfs/   
LIMITE_INSCRIPTION_MARITIMES_WFS:lim_3857_arc   
LIMITE_INSCRIPTION_MARITIMES_WFS:lim_3857_point

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/v   
couche: LIMITE_INSCRIPTION_MARITIME_WMSV   
 

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/r   
couche: LIMITE_INSCRIPTION_MARITIME_WMSR

DownloadingLAM.7z
ConstraintsDo not use for navigation - Free use provided that sources are cited. Open Licence (version 2.0 of April 2017), defined by the Etalab mission

 

Limit of the preventive archeology licence fee

Referent 
ProducerShom
Data providerdata.shom.fr
MetadataBDML_RAP.xml
Geo services

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wfs/   
limite_redevance_archeologie_preventive_wgs84_epsg4326

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/v   
couche: LIMITE_INSCRIPTION_MARITIME_WMSV 

DownloadingRAP-DRASSM.7z
ConstraintsDo not use for navigation - Free use provided that sources are cited. Open Licence (version 2.0 of April 2017), defined by the Etalab mission

 

Land-sea limit

Referent 
ProducerShom
Data providerdata.shom.fr
MetadataBDML_LIMTM.xml
Geo services

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wfs   
LIMTM_2154_WFS:limite_terre_mer_france_metropolitaine_ligne

https://services.data.shom.fr/INSPIRE/wms/v  
couche: LIMTM_3857_WMSV 

Downloadinglimite_terre_mer_france_metropolitaine.7z
ConstraintsNot to be used for navigation. Free use provided that the source is cited as follows: "Shom-IGN, 2021. https://dx.doi.org/10.17183/LIMTM". The land-sea boundary co-produced by Shom and IGN and put into service in December 2021 is not an official regulatory boundary, but the result of a technical consensus used notably for reporting purposes. See the "Recommendations for use concerning the limits between land and sea" to identify the uses and limitations of this data.

Please note that the exhaustiveness of the legal texts is not guaranteed for this theme.

 

Transverse limit of the sea

  • Decree of 14 juin 1899 (Vire) PDF 

  • Order of 30 janvier 1991 (MARONI) PDF 

  • Decree of 26 aout 1857 (Gironde) PDF 

  • Decree of 14 juin 1899 (Baie  grand vey) PDF 

  • Decree n°139 of 24/02/1869 (Seine) PDF 

  • Order n°863 of 26 mai 1986 (OYAPOCK), PDF  

  • Prefectoral Order  n°2500/DDE of 27 novembre 1983 (APPROUAGUE) , PDF  

  • Order n°836 -1D/4B of 21 may 1986 (KOUROU), PDF 

  • Order 2009-5-304 of 27 january 2009 (Orb),  PDF  

  • Decree of 21 october 1898 (Elorn Daoulas), PDF 

  • Decree of 09 september 1899 (Charente), PDF 

  • Order n°262 of 03 february 1986 (IRACOUBO), PDF  

  • Decree of 12 march 1915 (Falleron), PDF 

  • Decree of 25 february 2005 (Crach), PDF

  • Order 2009-5-203 of 27 january 2009 (Herault), PDF 

  • Order 2010-160-007 of 09 june 2010 (Agly), PDF 

  • Order n°870 / 3D-2B of 22 june 1983 (MANA), PDF 

  • Decree of 03 june 1899 (Aven), PDF 

  • Decree of 18 april 1924 (Dain), PDF 

  • Order 2010-160-006 of 09 june 2010 (Bourdigou), PDF  

  • Decree of 05 september 1899 (Arguenon), PDF   

  • Prefectoral Order n°712 of 26 may 1983 no text

     

Saline limit of waters

 

Limit of maritime affairs

Decree n° 59-951 of 31 july 1959

(The data disseminated is probably not up to date with the last modification, a decree in 2020)

 

Limits of the preventive archaeology fee 

Defined by the Heritage Code.

  • In metropolitan France, at the level of the Gironde estuary, the limit for preventive archaeology fees is set at the transverse limit of the sea as defined in the decree of 26 August 1857.

  • In French Guyana, the limit of the preventive archaeology fee is set in the Maroni and Oyapock rivers at the transverse limits of the sea defined respectively by the decree of 30 January 1991 and decree no. 863 of 26 May 1986, up to the point where they meet the land borders delimiting these rivers with neighbouring states.