Third UK Habitats Directive report (2013) - supporting notes (audit trail) for country-level and offshore species data
This dataset comprises supporting notes to accompany the Country specific source data used to compile the individual Species reports that formed a major part of the 3rd UK Habitats Directive Report for 2013. 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 October 2013. The 3rd UK Habitats Directive Report considered the conservation status of all terrestrial and marine species listed under Annexes II, IV and V of the Directive that were present within the UK during the reporting period. This included: *83 terrestrial species within the UK Atlantic region; *42 marine species within the UK Marine Atlantic region; *4 terrestrial species within the Gibraltar Mediterranean region; *18 marine species within the Gibraltar Marine Mediterranean region. The report submitted by the UK was an amalgamation of data from each of the four UK Countries and the offshore environment (> 12 nautical miles from the coast). This dataset presents the supporting data to accompany the source data provided from the above five sources. It contains a range of parameters for each species as described in the UK Approach Document. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/A17_2013_UKApproach.pdf
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name: Habitats-Directive-A17-2013-Country-and-offshore-reporting-info-Species-details-supporting-notes.csv
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http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/A17_2013_UKApproach.pdf
biota
Freshwater
Marine
Terrestrial
European Reporting
Article 17
Habitats Directive
Species
2007-01-01
2012-12-31
publication
2013-10-21
Explanations of each of the parameters in the dataset can be found in the UK Approach document here http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/A17_2013_UKApproach.pdf This document also describes in some detail, the process used to compile these data. In summary the 2013 Habitat reports were based on a structure outlined in a set of guidelines produced by the European Commission. This is available here http://bd.eionet.europa.eu/activities/Reporting/Article_17/reference_portal These data were collated by the four statutory, country-level, nature conservation agencies – the Countryside Council for Wales (Now known as Natural Resources Wales) , Natural England, Northern Ireland Environment Agency and Department of the Environment (Marine Division), and Scottish Natural Heritage – hereafter referred to as the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies. This country-level information covered both terrestrial areas and marine inshore waters, depending on the habitat or species concerned. JNCC acted in its fifth agency role for offshore waters, collecting information sets for three marine habitats occurring in UK offshore waters. Country-level and offshore information sets as presented in this dataset were subsequaently combined through an aggregation process carried out by JNCC. These related to the reporting period 2007-2012. This formed the basis by which conservation status was assessed at a UKlevel and a UK report produced. Note that, although the format and scope of the country-level and offshore information sets was based largely on the EC reporting format used for UK reporting, there were some notable exceptions. This was partly because some fields were populated directly with UK-level information by JNCC (e.g. with range information, population trends for bats, and all information for marine mobile species), but also because some fields were not required in order to complete the UK-level report (including certain mapping, range, reasons for change and long-term trend fields, together with the Favourable Reference Value, country-level conclusions/qualifiers, and Natura 2000 surface area fields). Also, as the EC reporting format did not allow for the submission of substantial details as regards the underlying information sources and reasoning used in the production of the UK reports, such information was, where necessary, audited in the notes accompanying the country-level or offshore reporting information or within the UK reports.
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