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CORINE Biotopes Sites - Database Status and Perspectives 1995

3. Content of the Database

3.1. Site Selection Criteria

A site may be selected on the basis of its importance for one or several threatened species, or the quality of a vulnerable habitat type found on the site. Table 2 shows the percentages of sites in each Member State which have been selected on the basis of each criterion. In some Member States, sites were also selected on broader criteria, such as representativity of their habitat types: this applies especially to France and Germany.

Table 2 Percentage of sites whose selection criteria are specified

	DE	FR	IT	NL	BE	LU	UK	IE	DK	GR	ES	PT	FI	EU
Sites recorded	1800	987	1638	174	179	30	350	519	187	430	616	288	543	7741
Habitat criteria	34.1	29.6	0	51.1	72.6	3.3	0	33.9	93.6	0.9	32.8	0	0	21.7
Mammal criteria	3.3	3.5	0	33.3	15.6	0	0.3	8.1	0	11.6	9.4	5.2	16.2	5.6
Bird criteria	8.2	9.0	0	50.0	16.8	3.3	2.9	36.6	4.8	34.4	67.5	4.9	59.5	18.9
Amph/rept criteria	1.5	1.9	0	14.9	15.6	3.3	0	0.4	0	3.0	10.7	1.0	15.8	3.5
Fish criteria	0.6	0.3	0	11.5	4.5	0	0	0.2	4.8	0	2.1	1.4	0.4	0.9
Invertebrate criteria	2.2	4.0	0	30.5	47.0	0	0	11.6	0.5	0.7	0	0.7	0.7	3.7
Plant criteria	0.8	11.1	0	24.7	34.1	3.3	0	6.7	1.6	25.1	32.8	17.0	0	8.1
Any criteria given	41.1	46.0	0	97.1	92.7	10.0	2.9	79.0	100	53.5	96.9	25.0	62.4	43.6

Table 2 shows a contrast between those Member States where the database has been compiled using the site selection criteria, and those where it is incomplete. Note also that different approaches to site selection were made: either mainly based on species (e.g. Finland) or on habitats (e.g. Denmark), or a combination of the two. All these approaches are legitimate applications of the criteria described in section 1.

3.2. Site Distribution and Surface Area

Table 3 gives a number of statistics for the area of biotopes sites, with a number of corrections which are necessary so as to calculate the percentage of the land area of each Member State covered by terrestrial biotopes sites. Subsites are omitted to avoid including the same area twice within the calculation, and wholly marine parts of the sites are also omitted, where their area can be obtained from habitat cover data. Table 3 also indicates whether boundary data are available in digital form.

Table 3 Site surface area statistics, status of boundary data and date of last update

Attribute	DE	FR	IT	NL	BE	LU	UK	IE	DK	GR	ES	PT	FI	TOTAL
Total area (1000 km² )	356.8	544.0	301.3	41.2	30.6	2.6	244.1	70.3	43.1	132.0	504.8	92.0	337.0	2699.8
Biotopes - total (km² )	38654	56015	84551	11434	5841	27	10830	6452	11474	41348	89190	18827	28046	402689
Biotopes, omitting subsites (km² )	30802	53511	74278	10921	5571	27	9696	5759	11474	32784	85313	17213	28046	365395
Marine area (codes 11&12) (km² )	1170	623	0	2905	540	0	97	68	5794	261	0	147	3605	15210
Land area (km² )	29632	52888	74278	8016	5131	27	9599	5691	5680	32523	85313	17066	24441	350285
Land biotopes % of total area	8.30	9.72	24.65	19.46	16.77	1.04	3.93	8.10	13.18	24.64	16.90	18.55	7.25	12.97
Boundary data held?	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes
Date of last update	05/95	10/90	01/91	10/95	11/92	09/89	12/88	06/91	11/89	08/94	04/93	12/91	03/95

Note that of the countries where data collection and reporting of selection criteria are incomplete (Table 2), Italy has a high percentage cover by biotopes sites, but these are unverified by the criteria, while Luxembourg and UK have the lowest percentage cover of any Member States.

Figure 1 shows the distribution of all 7741 sites in map form. Figure 2 illustrates site location and surface area on a map extending from south-west France to north-east Spain, overlaid on the biogeographic regions of the European Union adopted for the Habitats Directive. Figure 3 gives an example of the boundary data, for all sites recorded in Finland.

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

3.3. Habitat Data (Including Relevance to Annex I)

Table 4 shows the numbers of sites with habitat records (and percentage of sites in the Member State), the total numbers of habitat records, the number of different habitat codes used in each Member State, the number and percentage of sites for which habitat codes are specified as selection criteria, the numbers of habitat records to which these criteria are attached, the number and percentage of sites with Annex I habitat types, the number of Annex I habitat records, the number of different Annex I habitat types recorded. The final two rows refer to habitat cover data: numbers of sites and of records. Note that for six Member States, over 80% of sites have at least one Annex I habitat type recorded, and that approximately 25% of all habitat records in the database refer to Annex I types.

Annex II lists for all Habitats Directive Annex I types recorded in the CORINE Biotopes database the numbers of sites per Member State where each Annex I type is recorded. Note that frequently the habitat type recorded in the database is at a more detailed level of the hierarchy than the Annex I code: in compiling Annex II any multiple records of an Annex I type on a site have been reduced to single records.

Table 5 shows the habitat codes used, compared with the best available judgement of the habitat types which occur in European Union Member States (restricted to the 12 Member States prior to 1995). This judgement is based on HABNUTS, a database compiled by the Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique which records the NUTS regions where each habitat type of the habitat classification occurs. For a detailed discussion of HABNUTS, see the parallel Report to the European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation by ITE on the Palaearctic habitat classification.

Table 5 is organised in two different ways: a) by level (number of digits in the habitat code) in the classification hierarchy; b) by Member State. Table 5a shows that while all habitat types at levels 1 and 2 have been used, the percentage of more detailed codes used decreases steadily, until at the two most detailed levels available, only 8 of the 53 available codes (15.1%) have been used. Overall, under 50% of the codes have been used, showing that the detailed level of description made available in the development of the habitat classification has not been matched by the use made of it by compilers of the sites database.

There are a number of possible explanations for this difference:

a) the detailed habitat information was not available to the site database compiler;

b) it would not be possible to separate the most detailed habitat types without new field survey;

c) the habitat classification was developed at the detailed level after the database had been compiled;

d) some of the most detailed habitats are very localised and may not occur on biotopes sites.

Differences in rates of usage of the habitat types classified by Member State (Table 5b) in part reflect the completeness of the database in different Member States, and in part the date of compilation of the sites database in relation to the development of the habitat classification. The initial version of HABNUTS used (May 1995) was also incomplete, especially for Germany. One of the reasons for the development of HABNUTS was as a tool for the validation of the Biotopes sites database, and Table 5b shows the relevance of this validation exercise, which has not yet been undertaken.

Figure 4 illustrates the habitat data by showing all sites where habitat type 14 (mud- and sand flats) is reported, with symbol size proportional to site surface area. Note that this is an Annex I habitat type for which data are almost complete.

In Figure 5, the proportions of sites in each Member State where each habitat type at level 1 of the hierarchy are recorded are shown graphically.

Table 4 Habitat data statistics

ATTRIBUTE	DE	FR	IT	NL	BE	LU	UK	IE	DK	GR	ES	PT	FI	EU
Sites recorded	1800	987	1638	174	179	30	350	519	187	430	616	288	543	7741
Sites with habitat records	1791	987	1638	174	178	30	350	519	187	419	616	254	543	7686
% of total sites	99.50	100.00	100.00	100.00	99.44	100.00	100.00	100.00	100.00	97.44	100.00	88.19	100.00	99.29
Total habitat records	20734	9708	5925	1127	2635	138	1193	2519	968	2582	3362	1496	4916	57303
Different habitat codes	710	570	47	169	199	64	57	204	109	161	644	171	237	1530
Sites with habitat criteria	613	292	0	89	130	1	0	176	175	4	202	0	0	1682
% of total sites	34.06	29.58	0.00	51.15	72.63	3.33	0.00	33.91	93.58	0.93	32.79	0.00	0.00	21.73
Habitat criteria records	1406	423	0	212	296	1	0	366	409	4	364	0	0	3481
Habitat codes as criteria	256	199	0	56	84	1	0	70	80	3	156	0	0	598
Sites with Annex I habitats	1545	922	177	155	169	14	90	326	155	194	461	176	511	4895
% of total sites	85.83	93.41	10.81	89.08	94.41	46.67	25.71	62.81	82.89	45.12	74.84	61.11	94.11	63.23
Annex I habitat records	5566	3248	196	479	855	19	140	854	323	366	1516	406	1374	15341
Different Annex I habitats	90	112	5	49	55	10	11	47	30	40	80	45	37	156
Sites with habitat cover	840	779	0	174	176	29	19	422	187	221	0	200	543	3590
% of total sites	46.67	78.93	0.00	100.00	98.32	96.67	5.43	81.31	100.00	51.40	0.00	69.44	100.00	46.38
Habitat cover records	4909	4655	0	752	1359	72	55	1246	813	1111	0	967	2207	18145

Table 5 CORINE Biotopes site database : habitat codes used, compared with habitats available as derived from HABNUTS

a) by level in the hierarchy (= number of digits in habitat code)

Level in hierarchy	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	TOTAL
Codes in 1995 Palaearctic classification	9	67	338	1170	1910	1399	445	76	5414
Codes in HABNUTS mapping software (EUR 12)	0	1	56	404	899	631	50	2	2043
Codes at higher levels than HABNUTS units¹	7	34	148	315	214	26	1	0	745
Total mappable units (EUR 12)	7	35	204	719	1113	657	51	2	2788
Codes used in biotopes database (EUR12), omitting artificial and agricultural types	7	36	166	492	476	190	8	0	1375
% of possible codes used	100.00	102.86²	81.37	68.43	42.77	28.92	15.69	0.00	49.32
Codes used in biotopes database (EUR12 + FI)	7	46	196	535	515	219	12	0	1530

b) classified by Member State

Attribute	DE	FR	IT	NL	BE	LU	UK	IE	DK	GR	ES	PT	EUR12
Codes in biotopes database	710	570	47	169	199	64	57	204	109	161	644	171	1442
Codes used in biotopes database, omitting artificial and agricultural types	650	560	41	144	191	57	56	195	100	152	629	162	1375
Codes in HABNUTS mapping software	273	945	759	312	366	180	374	197	419	432	937	388	2043
Codes at higher levels than HABNUTS¹	215	469	420	195	230	141	235	149	239	279	472	259	745
Total mappable units	488	1414	1179	507	596	321	609	346	658	711	1409	647	2788
% of available codes	133.20	39.60	3.48	28.40	32.05	17.76	9.20	56.36	15.20	21.38	44.64	25.04	49.32

^{1 HABNUTS only maps the lowest level in
each line of the hierarchy, and does not include habitat types beginning 8 (agricultural
and artificial). The higher levels were added without duplication to compute the full
numbers of habitat types available in each Member State.
^{2 Code 43 (mixed woodland) is included
in the sites database but not in HABNUTS.

Figure 4

Figure 5

3.4. Species Data (Including Relevance to Annex
II)

Tables 6-11 show for each species
group: numbers of sites with records for the group and percentage of all sites, total
species records, numbers and percentages of sites with selection criteria specified for
the given species group, numbers of species records with selection criteria given, numbers
and percentage of sites with CORINE "threatened species" records, numbers and
percentages of sites with Habitats Directive Annex II species recorded, and numbers of
such records. (Annex I of the Birds Directive applies to birds, Table 7).

Figure 6 illustrates the numbers of
species recorded in each Member State in each of seven major groups. Figure 7 shows the
distribution of sites for one reptile species, Emys orbicularis, with symbol size
representing site area; in Figure 8 the species selection is generalised using the
taxonomic coding system to select all sites where waders (members of families
Haematopodidae, Scolopacidae, Recurvirostridae and Charadriidae) are found.

Table 6 Mammal records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with mammal records
346
557
244
108
52
5
3
107
61
226
345
172
310
2535

% of total sites
19.22
56.43
14.90
62.07
29.05
16.67
0.86
20.62
32.62
52.56
56.01
59.72
57.09
32.75

Total mammal records
776
1305
544
452
174
13
5
148
92
651
4275
659
726
9819

Number of mammal species
48
51
40
23
26
10
3
26
18
83
113
36
17
203

Sites selected for mammals
60
35
0
58
28
0
1
42
0
50
58
15
88
435

% of total sites
3.33
3.55
0.00
33.53
15.64
0.00
0.29
8.09
0.00
11.63
9.42
5.21
16.21
5.62

Mammal criteria records
81
47
0
95
72
0
1
43
0
62
64
22
152
639

Sites with CORINE mammals
246
540
121
108
44
2
3
96
53
183
262
120
285
2063

% of total sites
13.67
54.71
7.39
62.07
24.58
6.67
0.86
18.50
28.34
42.56
42.53
41.67
52.49
26.65

CORINE mammal records
475
1130
164
452
118
3
5
98
77
344
969
302
651
4788

Sites with Annex II mammals
182
352
97
87
31
2
3
70
51
174
181
91
209
1530

% of total sites
10.11
35.66
5.92
50.00
17.32
6.67
0.86
13.49
27.27
40.47
29.38
31.60
38.49
19.76

Annex II mammal species
13
22
9
10
8
1
3
4
5
16
26
14
6
41

Annex II mammals records
232
668
118
126
58
2
5
71
61
264
512
167
455
2739

Table 7 Bird records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with bird records
1220
881
512
130
112
15
199
265
172
345
559
263
543
5216

% of total sites
67.78
89.26
31.26
74.71
62.57
50.00
56.86
51.06
91.98
80.23
90.75
91.32
100.00
67.38

Total bird records
14351
7723
2639
918
1097
152
2677
1439
1880
4839
21997
3998
8052
71762

Number of bird species
215
256
253
93
149
88
223
103
147
367
440
230
141
616

Sites selected for birds
148
89
0
87
30
1
10
190
9
148
416
14
323
1465

% of total sites
8.22
9.02
0.00
50.00
16.76
3.33
2.86
36.61
4.81
34.42
67.53
4.86
59.48
18.93

Bird criteria records
271
124
0
264
57
1
85
340
10
649
1017
14
1323
4155

Sites with CORINE birds
1061
879
463
123
100
13
131
210
162
342
532
259
542
4817

% of total sites
58.94
89.06
28.27
70.69
55.87
43.33
37.43
40.46
86.63
79.53
86.36
89.93
99.82
62.23

CORINE bird records
6127
5700
1760
674
647
37
375
409
911
3172
5685
2320
5371
33188

Sites with Annex I birds
1061
879
463
123
100
13
125
210
162
341
513
254
542
4786

% of total sites
58.94
89.06
28.27
70.69
55.87
43.33
35.71
40.46
86.63
79.30
83.28
88.19
99.82
61.83

Annex I bird species
87
113
102
47
60
20
43
23
42
115
134
94
46
182

Annex I bird records
6104
5688
1752
674
640
37
361
409
883
2915
5377
2187
5371
32398

Table 8 Amphibian and reptile records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with amph/rept records
656
645
69
83
73
4
0
8
147
174
431
181
375
2846

% of total sites
36.44
65.35
4.21
47.70
40.78
13.33
0.00
1.54
78.61
40.47
69.97
62.85
69.06
36.77

Total amph/rept records
1878
2434
165
194
189
9
0
10
487
760
4296
1138
409
11969

Number of amph/rept species
27
51
50
10
16
8
0
4
18
71
99
39
4
188

Sites selected for amph/rept
27
19
0
26
28
1
0
2
0
13
66
3
86
271

% of total sites
1.50
1.93
0.00
14.94
15.64
3.33
0.00
0.39
0.00
3.02
10.71
1.04
15.84
3.50

Amph/rept criteria records
35
22
0
41
42
1
0
2
0
14
70
3
94
324

Sites with CORINE amph/rept
620
624
58
83
69
4
0
2
147
160
270
122
375
2534

% of total sites
34.44
63.22
3.54
47.70
38.55
13.33
0.00
0.39
78.61
37.21
43.83
42.36
69.06
32.73

CORINE amph/rept records
1560
2372
114
194
170
6
0
2
475
532
1384
468
409
7686

Sites with Annex II amph/rept
235
187
37
25
16
0
0
0
72
115
163
58
5
913

% of total sites
13.06
18.95
2.26
14.37
8.94
0.00
0.00
0.00
38.50
26.74
26.46
20.14
0.92
11.79

Annex II amph/rept species
4
9
12
2
1
0
0
0
2
14
23
5
1
38

Annex II amph/rept records
325
233
48
26
16
0
0
0
75
222
262
83
5
1295

Table 9 Fish records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with fish records
201
18
2
49
15
1
0
36
39
38
163
58
162
782

% of total sites
11.17
1.82
0.12
28.16
8.38
3.33
0.00
6.94
20.86
8.84
26.46
20.14
29.83
10.10

Total fish records
596
23
3
194
30
16
0
53
74
272
1435
243
540
3479

Number of fish species
44
8
2
9
9
12
0
12
11
98
235
39
12
404

Sites selected for fishes
10
3
0
20
8
0
0
1
9
0
13
4
2
70

% of total sites
0.56
0.30
0.00
11.49
4.47
0.00
0.00
0.19
4.81
0.00
2.11
1.39
0.37
0.90

Fish criteria records
16
4
0
44
11
0
0
1
11
0
16
14
4
121

Sites with CORINE fishes
117
7
1
45
10
0
0
13
33
11
25
16
159
437

% of total sites
6.50
0.71
0.06
25.86
5.59
0.00
0.00
2.50
17.65
2.56
4.06
5.56
29.28
5.65

CORINE fish records
228
9
1
134
19
0
0
16
60
17
40
31
469
1024

Sites with Annex II fishes
119
5
0
41
7
1
0
11
18
11
89
38
32
372

% of total sites
6.61
0.51
0.00
23.56
3.91
3.33
0.00
2.12
9.63
2.56
14.45
13.19
5.89
4.81

Annex II fish species
11
4
0
9
4
1
0
1
4
6
18
14
3
37

Annex II fish records
189
6
0
128
11
1
0
11
26
17
169
107
40
705

Table 10 Invertebrate records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with invert. Records
638
84
28
90
113
8
1
74
111
32
113
72
124
1488

% of total sites
35.44
8.51
1.71
51.72
63.13
26.67
0.29
14.26
59.36
7.44
18.34
25.00
22.84
19.22

Total invertebrate records
3955
183
62
400
540
45
2
314
413
91
3344
468
414
10231

Number of invertebrate species
781
109
36
47
132
38
1
196
70
36
1572
118
107
2845

Sites selected for inverts
39
39
0
53
84
0
0
60
1
3
0
2
4
285

% of total sites
2.17
3.95
0.00
30.46
46.93
0.00
0.00
11.56
0.53
0.70
0.00
0.69
0.74
3.68

Invertebrate criteria records
48
89
0
139
245
0
0
264
1
12
0
2
6
806

Sites with CORINE inverts
358
39
7
89
96
4
0
17
108
7
27
23
109
884

% of total sites
19.89
3.95
0.43
51.15
53.63
13.33
0.00
3.28
57.75
1.63
4.38
7.99
20.07
11.42

CORINE invertebrate records
790
63
8
397
359
6
0
19
376
12
65
41
340
2476

Sites with Annex II inverts
155
16
2
26
33
2
0
8
22
3
12
14
33
326

% of total sites
8.61
1.62
0.12
14.94
18.44
6.67
0.00
1.54
11.76
0.70
1.95
4.86
6.08
4.21

Annex II invertebrate species
17
8
2
8
9
2
0
4
8
2
6
3
12
32

Annex II invertebrate records
202
21
2
31
42
2
0
8
25
4
15
15
39
406

Table 11 Plant records

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Sites with plant records
1318
229
829
68
160
27
3
205
106
244
584
119
362
4254

% of total sites
73.22
23.20
50.61
39.08
89.39
90.00
0.86
39.50
56.68
56.74
94.81
41.32
66.67
54.95

Total plant records
12667
408
4159
150
1724
420
14
617
524
5153
82268
2470
1807
112381

Number of plant species
920
227
1406
18
526
280
12
249
228
2310
6656
642
282
10019

Sites selected for plants
14
110
0
43
61
1
0
35
3
108
202
49
0
626

% of total sites
0.78
11.14
0.00
24.71
34.08
3.33
0.00
6.74
1.60
25.12
32.79
17.01
0.00
8.09

Plant criteria records
16
150
0
60
84
1
0
56
3
2198
1019
269
0
3856

Sites with CORINE plants
304
104
125
68
63
4
0
28
62
97
348
87
265
1555

% of total sites
16.89
10.54
7.63
39.08
35.20
13.33
0.00
5.40
33.16
22.56
56.49
30.21
48.80
20.09

CORINE plant records
460
142
152
147
97
4
0
36
119
227
1625
312
509
3830

Sites with Annex II plants
144
55
77
30
15
0
0
13
15
42
195
85
52
723

% of total sites
8.00
5.57
4.70
17.24
8.38
0.00
0.00
2.50
8.02
9.77
31.66
29.51
9.58
9.34

Annex II plant species
17
14
39
3
4
0
0
3
6
33
127
79
4
279

Annex II plant records
157
63
84
34
15
0
0
14
16
57
346
407
58
1251

Figure 6

Figure 7

Figure 8

CORINE Biotopes sites in North-West Europe where
waders are reported

3.5. Site Designation Data

Designation data are summarised in Table 12 by
classifying the designation of each site as either:

Unknown: either there are no designation codes
recorded for the site, or the designation status is unknown;

Unprotected: the site has no formal designation
status through national legislation;

Part-protected: the site has codes indicating that
some but not all of it is designated under national legislation;

Protected: the only codes recorded are for national
designation types.

The area designation statistics given in Table 12
are based on the fields designation code and designation cover, in combination with the
site surface area. Where the site designation is completely specified by the designation
cover field, the unprotected and protected area in hectares could be calculated. If the
site is partly protected, and the designation cover does not sum to 100%, the whole site
area was counted in the 'part protected' category.

Note that there is a considerable range in the value
for nature conservation inherent in different designations, for example between an area
with hunting restrictions and a nature reserve.

With the exception of Spain and Italy, the
percentages of sites with unknown designation is zero or very low. The relative
proportions of protected to unprotected areas within the Biotopes sites database reflect
among other factors the site selection procedures used in practice in each Member State
(if the first selection principle was to work from an existing list of designated areas,
all would be designated), and the degree to which the national designation system covers
the most important sites at the European level. The practice of using only designated
areas as a starting point in selection of CORINE Biotope sites is contrary to the site
definition given in Section 1 of this report (and in the CORINE Biotopes Manual).

A distinct CORINE project under the theme
"nature" concerned the establishment of a database solely of designated areas.
Although data were gathered for a number of Member States, this database was not completed
during the CORINE Programme, and the work of compiling a pan-European designated areas
database was subsequently taken on by the Council of Europe, with the aim to integrate the
CORINE designated areas database with the World Conservation Monitoring CentreŽŽŽŽs
"Protected Areas Database". The latest position on this subject is discussed by
Roekaerts (1995) in "Co-ordination of information on protected areas", Council
of Europe document for the Ministerial Conference Environment in Europe, Sofia, 23-25
October 1995.

Table 12 Site designation status summary

Sites:
% of Area

Country
Unknown
Unprotected
Part-

protected
Protected
Unknown
Unprotected
Part-

protected
Protected

DE
108
146
308
1238
16.81
8.03
1.83
73.33

FR
112
460
63
352
11.59
42.74
1.40
44.27

IT
595
261
137
645
21.98
10.16
34.78
33.08

NL
0
12
6
156
0.00
1.56
0.60
97.85

BE
9
7
87
76
0.30
25.17
9.88
64.65

LU
0
0
0
30
0.00
0.00
0.00
100.00

UK
5
9
136
200
0.00
2.41
2.95
94.64

IE
7
377
63
72
0.07
71.08
9.27
19.58

DK
0
10
0
177
0.00
3.18
0.00
96.82

GR
60
236
95
39
6.47
51.28
30.94
11.32

ES
336
0
0
280
65.18
0.00
0.00
34.82

PT
5
172
38
73
0.12
58.94
1.26
39.67

FI
0
309
91
143
0.00
34.44
0.00
65.56

TOTAL
1237
1999
1024
3481
22.95
20.97
11.30
44.78

3.6. Other DataFields

Table 13 summarises the availability
of a number of other data fields, less important than habitats, species and designation.

The first set of rows shows the use
made of the site complex / subsite system for recording smaller sites of particular
importance for a feature which lie within larger sites of more general significance. This
system is used especially in Germany and Belgium, to a lesser degree in Greece and
Portugal, and not at all in Luxembourg, Denmark and Finland. The remainder of Table 13
indicates the completeness and extent of data on region codes, designation codes (analysed
in Table 12), motivation codes and human activities.

Table 14 indicates the numbers of
sites in each Member State for which free text information is given, as character,
quality, vulnerability, designation, ownership, documentation and record history.

Table 13 Other data fields

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Number of site complexes
203
16
183
6
29
0
17
34
0
65
65
21
0
639

% of total sites
11.28
1.62
11.17
3.45
16.20
0.00
4.86
6.55
0.00
15.12
10.55
7.29
0.00
8.25

Number of subsites
1077
58
348
32
99
0
34
95
0
153
128
88
0
2112

% of total sites
59.83
5.88
21.25
18.39
55.31
0.00
9.71
18.30
0.00
35.58
20.78
30.56
0.00
27.28

Sites with region codes
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Region code records
2045
1156
1873
243
231
30
394
535
188
482
675
328
546
8726

Sites with desig. Codes
1800
984
1047
174
174
30
350
519
187
420
280
284
543
6792

% of total sites
100.00
99.70
63.92
100.00
97.21
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
97.67
45.45
98.61
100.00
87.74

Designation code records
2927
1206
1665
411
448
35
793
646
626
608
375
414
662
10816

Sites with motivation codes
1788
984
1627
174
179
30
346
519
187
424
605
266
543
7672

% of total sites
99.33
99.70
99.33
100.00
100.00
100.00
98.86
100.00
100.00
98.60
98.21
92.36
100.00
99.11

Motivation code records
11597
4135
4440
631
797
226
924
1712
1438
2659
3204
1400
2984
36147

Sites with human act. Codes
1687
976
1593
171
176
29
68
473
187
407
510
262
543
7082

% of total sites
93.72
98.89
97.25
98.28
98.32
96.67
19.43
91.14
100.00
94.65
82.79
90.97
100.00
91.49

Human activity code records
4661
3363
3109
379
515
90
173
928
406
1663
1838
671
912
18708

Table 14 Text fields

Table 14 indicates the numbers of sites in each
Member State for which free text information is given.

ATTRIBUTE
DE
FR
IT
NL
BE
LU
UK
IE
DK
GR
ES
PT
FI
EU

Sites recorded
1800
987
1638
174
179
30
350
519
187
430
616
288
543
7741

Character text (sites)
1737
960
1584
173
176
29
26
504
187
418
607
249
535
7185

Quality text (sites)
1602
723
1604
170
167
30
202
517
187
410
593
242
494
6941

Vulnerability text (sites)
1351
40
1053
148
38
30
11
402
183
294
433
247
379
4609

Designation text (sites)
647
71
1181
167
33
0
119
118
175
351
0
241
337
3440

Ownership text (sites)
48
607
584
168
0
0
31
454
89
155
50
212
543
2941

Documentation text (sites)
1765
3
1583
145
41
30
145
410
165
278
0
245
0
4810

History text (sites)
183
856
1557
148
129
0
9
242
187
0
0
58
0
3369

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