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

2. 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

3. Changes to previous Community List (per Biogeographic Region)
area (hectares)
n° of SCIs
Alpine
+ 693,34
- 16
Atlantic
,19
+ 13
Boreal
,74
+ 142
Continental
,10
+ 3
Mediterranean
,63
+ 15
Pannionan
,35
+ 10

4. Evolution of SCI areas (per Biogeographic Region)

5. Changes to previous Community Lists (per Member State)
area (hectares)
n° SCIs
are (hectares) AT
- 101,79
+ 2 IE
+ 386,58 BE
,95 IT
,82
- 13 CY
,40
+ 1 LT
,36
+ 140 DE
,57
- 1 LU
,80 ES
+ 237,88
+ 11 NL
- 213,00
- 2 FI
+ 986,00 PL
,16 FR
,00 SE
,93 GR
,76 UK
,48
+ 13 HU
,35
+ 10
Total:
,07
+ 167

6. Draft Community List 2011 (total figures + figures per Member State)
area (hectares)
n° SCIs AT
170 PL
823 BE
280 SE
3 984 CY
88 302 40 UK
636 DE
4620 BG
228 ES
1446 CZ
1 084 FI
1714 DK
261 FR
1368 EE
531 GR
241 LV
323 HU
477 MT
4 961 28 IE
423 PT 96 IT
2275 RO
273 LT
405 SI
260 LU
41 365 48 SK
381 NL
144
TOTAL
22 559

7. terr. SCI area (hectares)
New SCI total figures 2011
total SCI area : hectares (+ 2,65 %)
total number of SCIs: (+ 0,7 %)
% area of biogeographic regions (terrestrial part):
terrestrial area (ha)
terr. SCI area (hectares)
% of region
ALP
12 492,534
33,75%
ATL
6 073,008
7,74%
BLS
44,06%
BOR
8,58%
CON
9,76%
MAC
30,94%
MED
18,65%
PAN
12,79%
STE
12,77%
13,29%

8. 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 ES : ‘Robledales de Ultzama y Basaburua’
b) area of site ITB corrected : + 3 hectares (new area: 251 ha)

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