WP4 Revision of the Dataflow - Standard Data Form - Expert Group on Reporting under the Nature Directives Brussels, 18 November 2009 WP4 Revision of the Dataflow - Standard Data Form - Sabine Roscher
Overview revision process The revised SDF was presented and discussed in the last meeting Group was asked to provide final comments by first week of September Based on the discussion and the comments received a few adoption were made
Adoptions to revised SDF (1/7) Respondent (1.5) A simple structure was introduced to make the free text more readable Name/Organisation: _________________________________ Address: __________________________________ Email: ___________________________________________________
Adoptions to revised SDF (2/7) Site indication and designation / classification dates (1.7) A free text field for citation of national legal reference of SAC designation was introduced Date confirmed as SCI removed (this date is handled by the Commission)
Adoptions to revised SDF (3/7) Biogeographical Regions (2.6) The Marine Regions were added Marine Atlantic Marine Black Sea Marine Baltic Sea Marine Mediterranean Marine Macaronesian
Proposed Standard for entries on Habitat types Annex I Habitat types % cover in the Member State Site assessment Code Cover [ha] Quality % A | B | C Rel. Surf. Repr. Con. Glob. 7110 2212 G 12.4 B 3150 921 1.4 M C A 1110 1700 P 20.0 A: 100 – 15 % G = good (e.g. based on surveys), M = moderate (e.g. partial data with some extrapolation) P = poor (e.g. rough estimation)
Adoptions to revised SDF (4/7) 3.2 Ecological information species For the population units a reference was made to the standard of Article 17 reporting
Adoptions to revised SDF (5/7) Site Protection Status and Relation with Corine Biotope Sites (5) The information on national designation will be available from the Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA), which results from the well established EIONET Priority dataflow or by means of Inspire. Case study done by ETC/BD showed that 90 % same result by means of GIS overlay with CDDA data Whether or not this would be the case for the majority of the MS is not clear
Adoptions to revised SDF (5/7) Site Protection Status and Relation with Corine Biotope Sites (5) In near future the information on national designation could be extracted from the database on designated areas. It might be useful to retain this field in the SDF (5.1 and 5.2) for a transition period. The relation with the Corine Biotope Sites (5.3) can be removed from the SDF
Adoptions to revised SDF (6/7) 6.1 Body responsible for the site management 6.2 Management plan exists (yes, no, link) 6.3 Necessary conservation measures (6.3) A free textfield to explain how is dealt with site designation and measures obligatory
Adoptions to revised SDF (7/7) Inspire ID Definition: External object identifier of the site. Description: An external object identifier is a unique object identifier published by the responsible body, which may be used by external applications to reference the spatial object. The identifier is an identifier of the spatial object, not an identifier of the real-world phenomenon.
Terminology SDF – Art. 17 Note on Conservation status in SDF and Article 17 report provided by BE Suggestions to change explanatory notes (not SDF) ETCs conclusion: SDF describes site as it is Prospects is looking forward, This aspect should be indicated by using pressures / threats (and free text field) No need to make serious changes to the explanatory notes of the SDF
Outlook Explanatory notes to be finalised Decision until the end of the year (WP) Realistic timeline for transition phase Adoption of data structure, transfer of data into new structure, XML for upload
Thank you for your attention
SDF / CDDA comparison of designation Example DE: 73 % designation code and percentage cover the same 17 % designation code the same result but cover missing in the SDF CDDA would be improvement 90 % same result my means of GIS overlay with CDDA data 8 % discrepancy, either SDF or GIS overlay correct 2 % designation in not in CDDA data