Third UK Habitats Directive report (2013) - conservation measures
This dataset lists conservation measures for habitats and species listed under the Habitats Directive. Every six years, all EU Member States are required (under Article 17 of the Directive) to report on the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive. The 3rd UK Habitats Directive Report was submitted to the European Commission in 2013. This report includes the need to report on Conservation measures in section 3.2 of the reporting form. For each habitat and species, a UK list of conservation measures was identified based on information provided by the Country Agencies (as detailed in the country-level reporting information). The measures identified represented activities undertaken primarily during the reporting period 2007-2012. They were selected from a standard list of codes/categories that was provided via the EC Reporting Guidelines (see Appendix 4). Each measure was assigned to one or more of the following types: * legal/statutory; * administrative; * contractual; * recurrent; * one-off. They were ranked as High, Medium or Low importance, based on the proportion of the target habitat benefiting from the measure. The geographic area (location) that each measure primarily impacted on was classed as either: * inside the SAC network; * outside the SAC network; * both inside and outside the SAC network. Finally, a broad evaluation was given to indicate the effectiveness of each measure in maintaining, enhancing or reaching favourable conservation status (FCS). This was based on the following categories: * maintain – used for measures that were required to maintain FCS; * enhance – used for measures that enhanced conservation status: * long-term – used for measures where a positive effect was expected only in the long-term; * no effect – used for ineffective measures or measures that need to be improved, had not delivered conservation benefits, had failed to achieve their objectives, or had adverse effects; * unknown effect – used for measures whose effect was unknown; * not evaluated – used for measures that not been evaluated. The aggregation of the lists of conservation measures provided for each country followed that used for the lists of pressures
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name: Habitats-Directive-A17-2013-Country-and-offshore-reporting-info-Conservation-measures.csv
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http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/A17_2013_UKApproach.pdf
biota
Freshwater
Marine
Terrestrial
European Reporting
Article 17
Habitats
Habitats Directive
Species
2007-01-01
2012-12-31
publication
2013-10-21
The UK list of conservation measures was based on an aggregation of the corresponding, country-level lists supplied by the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (as detailed in the country-level reporting information). This was achieved for each measture by: (i) converting the ranks assigned at a country-level to a value (i.e. L = 1, M = 2, H = 3); (ii) weighting (multiplying) these values by the proportion of habitat in each country based on the surface area (see 2.3.1) (or, where this was incomplete, the count of 10-km squares at a country-level (see 2.2.1) or estimates of range surface area were used – see 2.2.2); and (iii) summing these weighted values and using this number and the following classes as a guide to select the UK rank: <1.1 = L, 1.1-2.1 = M, >2.1= H. The Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies used data from a variety of sources when assessing measures
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