1. Natura 2000 – SCI Union Lists
2012 updating round
Habitats Committee meeting of 4 Oct. 2012

2. all 9 Biogeographic Regions are concerned
updated Union Lists based on SCI data submitted between October 2010 and October 2011 (or earlier if no new data submitted during that period)
evaluation of changes by ETC/COM; bi-lateral contacts with Member States in spring-summer 2012
during that period, 19 Member States submitted new data: AT, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FR, HU, IE, IT, LV, MT, NL, PL, RO, SE, SK, UK
(no new data from BE, GR, FI, LT, LU, PT, SI)
all 9 Biogeographic Regions are concerned

3. Changes to previous Union List (per Biogeographic Region)
area added (km2)
% area increase
Sites added
Alpine
2.913,30
2,00%
100
Atlantic
12.671,02
8,14% 5
Black Sea
167,76
1,63% 2
Boreal
3.784,19
3,38% 19
Continental
4.482,03
2,68% 69
Macaronesian
8,99
0,16%
Mediterranean
1.741,82
0,88% 12
Pannonian
400,60
2,43% 33
Steppic
810,34
11,13% 15

4. Evolution of SCI area (per Biogeographic Region)

5. Changes to previous Union Lists (per Member State)
area (ha)
n° SCIs AT
1.423,24 IE
-16,02 BG
45.186,07
+ 3 IT
,00
+ 12 CY
-48,00 LV
,71
+ 4 CZ
-1.322,07
- 9 MT
18.318,50 DE
2.608,54
- 2 NL
9.449,00
- 1 DK
25.586,00 PL
-0,10
+ 0 EE
16.847,26
+11 RO
,20
+ 109 ES
7.208,57 SE
,90 FR
23.855,84 +1 SK
11.609,50
+ 93 HU
1.081,84
+ 2 UK
,88
Total
,86
+ 235

6. Draft UnionList 2012 (total figures + figures per Member State)
area (hectares)
n° SCIs AT
170 IT
2 287 BE
280 LT
405 BG
231 LU
41 365 48 CY
88 254 40 LV
327 CZ
1 075 MT
23 280 32 DE
4 618 NL
143 DK
261 PL
823 EE
542 PT 96 ES
1 446 RO
382 FI
1 713 SE
3 988 FR
1 369 SI
260 GR
241 SK
474 HU
479 UK
640 IE
423
TOTAL
22 793

7. New SCI total figures 2012
total SCI area : hectares (+ 3,42 %)
total number of SCIs: (+ 1,0 %)
SCIs cover
=> 13,6 % of the EU27 land area
=> km2 of marine area

8. Other changes to the Union Lists
Geographic site coordinates ("longitude" and "latitude")
now in decimal degrees with 4 digits
Last minute correction:
Boreal List: site SE Ostmossen : the habitat type 6210 on this site is not of the priority type (*important orchid sites)