Wetlands of international importance check: inside, near or far, based on the official boundary
A protected wetland check asks whether a plot lies inside a wetland of international importance designated under the international wetlands convention — a lake, a marsh, a mangrove, a peatland — or near enough that the designation is a question for the permit, the loan or the contract. ERWAY Legality Assessment answers for each plot with the relation to the site, the footprint used and the restriction tier, and links each finding to the official site record.
Where an official boundary is published for the wetland, the product uses it: inside is tier 3, restricted; near, 1 km by default, is tier 4, 'Verification needed'; far, 10 km by default, is tier 6, informational. Where only a centre point is published, the footprint is a disc, and a disc never produces more than 'Verification needed'. Only official-boundary overlaps count in the overlap total in hectares. The World Heritage check applies the same clear labelling to sites that publish no boundary at all.
Boundary or disc
Many protected wetland sites have a published boundary; others are known only by a centre point and an area. The product states which it used on every finding: 'Official boundary · inside · 1.3 ha · 14 % of the plot', or 'Disc (centre point) · near · approximate'. The map draws boundaries as outlines and discs dashed, with the near and far bands as rings. Designation criteria and the wetland type are taken from the official site record that each finding links to.
Why wetlands are asked about
Wetlands appear by name in the frameworks that screen sites: the EIA Directive's Annex III lists wetlands, riparian areas and river mouths among the sensitive locations a screening must weigh; IFC PS6 lists protected wetland sites among internationally recognised areas; the CSDDD's environmental annex refers to the international wetlands convention. The EIA screening page follows the permit case; the wetland finding is one of the rows it produces.
Per plot, exportable
A supplier's farm on a floodplain, a solar site alongside a lagoon, a restoration polygon on a peatland: each is one row, with the relation, the footprint, the tier and the date the source was checked. The CSV and GeoJSON exports carry the wetland row next to the protected-area, community-land, heritage and species rows, so the wetland question reaches the file with the rest of the plot's findings.