Natura 2000 – SCI Union Lists 2011 updating round Habitats Committee meeting of 26 Sept. 2011

based on SCI data submitted between Oct. 2009 and Oct. 2010 17 Member States: AT, BE, CY, DE, ES, FI, FR, GR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, NL, PL, SE, UK 6 Biogeographic Regions: Alpine, Atlantic, Boreal, Continental, Mediterranean, Pannonian evaluation of the changes and bi-lateral contacts COM – Member States in spring-summer 2011

Changes to previous Community List (per Biogeographic Region)   area (hectares) n° of SCIs Alpine + 693,34 - 16 Atlantic + 1 656 002,19 + 13 Boreal + 34 200,74 + 142 Continental + 25 388,10 + 3 Mediterranean + 116 549,63 + 15 Pannionan + 45 970,35 + 10

Evolution of SCI areas (per Biogeographic Region)

Changes to previous Community Lists (per Member State)   area (hectares) n° SCIs are (hectares) AT - 101,79 + 2 IE + 386,58 BE + 83 112,95 IT + 87 152,82 - 13 CY + 17 910,40 + 1 LT + 35 828,36 + 140 DE + 8 111,57 - 1 LU + 1 490,80 ES + 237,88 + 11 NL - 213,00 - 2 FI + 986,00 PL - 4 398,16 FR + 188 110,00 SE - 3 860,93 GR + 27 854,76 UK + 1 391 304,48 + 13 HU + 45 970,35 + 10 Total: + 1 879 883,07 + 167

Draft Community List 2011 (total figures + figures per Member State)   area (hectares) n° SCIs AT 898 321 170 PL 3 791 691 823 BE 410 012 280 SE 6 442 548 3 984 CY 88 302 40 UK 4 297 892 636 DE 5 434 892 4620 BG 3 342 962 228 ES 12 613 364 1446 CZ 786 679 1 084 FI 4 855 164 1714 DK 1 931 930 261 FR 7 429 870 1368 EE 1 132 059 531 GR 2 807 640 241 LV 785 473 323 HU 1 443 263 477 MT 4 961 28 IE 1 355 640 423 PT 1 678 806 96 IT 4 620 403 2275 RO 3 292 207 273 LT 687 361 405 SI 639 735 260 LU 41 365 48 SK 573 935 381 NL 1 487 977 144 TOTAL 72 874 451 22 559

terr. SCI area (hectares) New SCI total figures 2011 total SCI area : 72 874 451 hectares (+ 2,65 %) total number of SCIs: 22 559 (+ 0,7 %) % area of biogeographic regions (terrestrial part):   terrestrial area (ha) terr. SCI area (hectares) % of region ALP 37 012 365 12 492,534 33,75% ATL 78 465 008 6 073,008 7,74% BLS 1 120 483 493 660 44,06% BOR 84 420 885 7 247 306 8,58% CON 125 599 687 12 258 406 9,76% MAC 1 025 520 317 246 30,94% MED 88 706 510 16 545 436 18,65% PAN 12 612 650 1 612 865 12,79% STE 3 703 885 473 071 12,77% 432 666 991 57 513 533 13,29%

other changes to the Union Lists a) “Community lists” / “Community level” > “Union Lists” / “Union level” (no change to “Sites of Community Interest”) b) Geographic site coordinates now in decimal-degrees last minute corrections corrected spelling of the site name of site ES2200043 : ‘Robledales de Ultzama y Basaburua’ b) area of site ITB032219 corrected : + 3 hectares (new area: 251 ha)

Deadline for submitting databases to the Commission for the next update of the Union lists (2012 update) : 30 September 2011