Identification

Title

Third UK Habitats Directive report (2013) - conservation measures for habitats and species at Country and offshore level

Abstract

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 in each Country (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and offshore), a list of conservation measures was identified. 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

Resource type

nonGeographicDataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/da398064-3e48-417b-a642-f30ddc1e947d-Habitats-Directive-A17-2013-UK-reporting-info-Conservation-measures.csv

name: Habitats-Directive-A17-2013-UK-reporting-info-Conservation-measures.csv

Unique resource identifier

code

da398064-3e48-417b-a642-f30ddc1e947d

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/A17_2013_UKApproach.pdf

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Freshwater

Marine

Terrestrial

European Reporting

Article 17

Habitats

Habitats Directive

Species

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2007-01-01

End position

2012-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2013-10-21

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

The Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies used data from a variety of sources when assessing measures. They were selected from a standard list of codes/categories that was provided via the EC Reporting Guidelines (see Appendix 4).

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma Separated Values

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: "Contains public sector data © JNCC/NE/NRW/SNH/DOENI. Licence: OGL"

Limitations on public access

no limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language

eng