Natura 2000 – SCI Union Lists 2012 updating round Habitats Committee meeting of 4 Oct. 2012
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
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
Evolution of SCI area (per Biogeographic Region)
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 151.050,00 + 12 CY -48,00 LV 226.199,71 + 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 563.009,20 + 109 ES 7.208,57 SE 135.371,90 FR 23.855,84 +1 SK 11.609,50 + 93 HU 1.081,84 + 2 UK 1.252.191,88 Total 2.489.610,86 + 235
Draft UnionList 2012 (total figures + figures per Member State) area (hectares) n° SCIs AT 899 744 170 IT 4 771 453 2 287 BE 410 012 280 LT 687 361 405 BG 3 388 148 231 LU 41 365 48 CY 88 254 40 LV 1 011 673 327 CZ 785 357 1 075 MT 23 280 32 DE 5 437 501 4 618 NL 1 497 426 143 DK 1 957 516 261 PL 3 791 691 823 EE 1 148 906 542 PT 1 678 806 96 ES 12 620 573 1 446 RO 3 855 216 382 FI 4 854 178 1 713 SE 6 577 920 3 988 FR 7 453 726 1 369 SI 639 735 260 GR 2 807 640 241 SK 585 545 474 HU 1 444 345 479 UK 5 550 084 640 IE 1 355 624 423 TOTAL 75 363 077 22 793
New SCI total figures 2012 total SCI area : 75 363 077 hectares (+ 3,42 %) total number of SCIs: 22 793 (+ 1,0 %) SCIs cover => 13,6 % of the EU27 land area => 179 158 km2 of marine area
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 SE0230150 Ostmossen : the habitat type 6210 on this site is not of the priority type (*important orchid sites)