1. On-going work on Art 17 & Art 12 - agenda item 6
Expert Group on Reporting under the Nature Directives
Brussels

2. Reminder & update on the time plan 2013-2015

3. 2014
2015: publication of the EEA Technical Report and EC Composite Report

4. Updates on Reference Portals since previous meeting
Art 12 & Art 17
Documentation sections:
2) Explanatory Notes & Guidelines for the period corrigenda
3) Guidelines for submitting Art 17 data –delivery manual
4) Reporting Tool Software – new versions
5) FAQ – new questions

5. Reference material sections: Art 17 only: 2) Checklist for HD Art 17 reporting –’STP’ corrected into ‘STE’ (for RO) 3) Biogeographical regions – marine borders 4) List of Pre-dominant Marine Habitat types - Link provided to EC Staff Working Paper Art 12 only: 7) Codes for seasons

6. State of reporting tools
Art 17 tool: version 1.7 (28.2. version 1.8 for Romania)
Note on changes sent to MS 4.2.
RO informed on 11.3.
Art 12 tool: version 1.8
Note on changes sent to MS 11.3.

7. Delivery manual for Art 12 and 17 1st draft on CIRCABC
Content: 1. Role of national co-ordinator 2. How to ensure data are technically valid 3. How to upload data (incl in-built QA/QC & automatic validation process) 4. What happens after submission

8. If you have comments, please send them by 26.3. to
Final version planned for end April

9. Corrigenda to Art 12 and Art 17 Guidelines
‘Decimal separator & thousand separator’

10. Rule for ‘year and period’

12. New marine boundaries for Kattegat
Art 4 of Marine Strategy Framework Directive includes Kattegat in North-east Atlantic Ocean region. Currently the Art 17 border is result of informal working agreement between MS and EC and is based on Helcom convention.

13. FAQ since previous meeting
Art 17: seven FAQ added
e.g. suitable habitat, year/period for maps, precisions for section 3, use of qualifiers
Art 12: two new FAQ
- precisions for section 3
Coming soon:
Field 1.1.5: Range maps. We expect all Distribution maps delivered under (i.e. 10x10km ETRS grids) to have a corresponding Range map, it should be a one to one relationship.
Threats & pressures (Art 12)

14. Check the Reference Portals regularly!
Art 17:
Art 12:

15. National summaries New: Explanatory notes
Art 17 - Revised sections (since ):
In previous version: SACs were in brackets. Number of sites was mistakenly in %

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Previous version: Number of species extinct… was not given, 3.3.presentation has been simplified as earlier graph was considered too complex, 3.5. ‘no change reported’ is now ‘change reported & no reason provided’

17. This was the alternative proposed also in the previous version
Same for Art 12!

18. Presentation has been changed & ‘inside-outside N2000’ not included (too complex)
Same for Art 12!

19. Also CS results from 2007 are included

20. Art 12 - Revised sections (since 8.11.2012):
2. Number of extinct… and newly arriving birds added. 3. within declining & increasing trend three categories defined based on trend magnitude – for range as well!

21. New, simple graph on short-term and long-term trend – same for breeding range trends. All taxa, Annex I & non-Annex I is new.

22. Two graphs now: separate for breeding taxa and wintering taxa.

23. ‘Rep’ (% of missing reports) and missing maps added

24. Proposal for a scoreboard
1. Timeliness of report delivery
Two parts: 1. timeliness of report delivery and 2.data quality

25. 2. Data quality
2.1. Absent and unknown information
2.2. Unknown overall conclusions (Art 17 only)
2.3. Missing information
2.1. Absent and unknown information
% of mandatory fields reported as ‘unknown’ or ‘’absent data’

26. 2.2. Unknown overall conclusions
(only Art 17)
% of overall conclusions reported as ‘unknown’
2.3. Missing information
% of fields with missing information

27. Viewing of national reports in Reportnet