Cambridge CDDA/European Protected Areas Technical Meeting CoE - EEA - UNEP WCMC Coordination Cambridge 11 August 2016

Items of interest European Diploma Emerald Update on the sites DB Designation types Emerald Web app development Reporting under Emerald

European Diploma for Protected Areas See ppt last years meeting

Emerald Sites Candidate sites (only on CoE webpage) Adopted Sites (full database and GIS) Designation types at National level (ENP + …) (distribution maps on species and habitats) Etc …

N2000 and Emerald Implementation

Emerald data overview 2016/02 EU/CoE JP Emerald Network II Emerald data overview 2016/02 Table name AM AZ BY GE MD RU UA Total 2015 Total 2014 Total 2011 Total 2010 2009 Sites 21 16 119 49 36 1584 194 2019 1588 959 249 143 Amph./Rept. 28 46 79 104 68 344 439 1108 915 795 370 250 Birds 796 873 2171 809 426 8468 9525 23068 28171 16450 8770 5234 Fishes 29 43 186 6 443 830 1566 1330 1174 603 348 Habitats 204 1081 154 90 3751 2731 8054 4990 3849 1224 850 Invertebrates 34 26 126 276 51 663 1247 2423 1928 1254 670 357 Mammals 74 305 623 37 1293 664 3150 2501 1714 851 591 Plants 31 19 144 96 1442 417 2165 1716 1379 298 185

Area coverage/Number of sites per Country 32 34 32 14 25 633 14 26 61 1267 64 169 29 37

Biogeographical Seminars Subject Coverage Year Nr. Geogr. Evaluation units Approx. period 1 All but birds Caucasus (all bio-regions, AM, AZ, GE ) + Marine Black Sea (GE) + Marine Caspian (AZ) 2015 8 + 2 (*) 27-29 May 2 Arctic and Boreal Region (BY, RU) + Alpine Urals + Marine Baltic and Marine Arctic 4 + 2 (*) 28-30 September 3 Birds BY, MD, RU, UA 4 23-27 Nov. Caucasus (AM, AZ, GE) 2016 1-2 Dec. 5 Continental Region (BY, MD, RU, UA) + Pannonian and Alpine Carpathians (UA) 6 11-13 May All Second seminar Norway (Alpine, Arctic, Atlantic, Boreal) 4 + 1 (*) 14-15 June 7 Steppic Region (MD, RU, UA) + Black Sea (RU) + Alpine Caucasus (RU) + Marine Black Sea (RU, UA) + Marine Caspian (RU) 5 + 3 (*) 6-8 Sept. (*) Terrestrial + Marine

Designation (protection) Types at National Level List for 7 ENP countries + Balkan, CH, NO and IS How to integrate in CDDA, WDPA and EUNIS ? EEA countries (CH, NO, IS, AL, BA, ME, MK, RS) Non EEA: AM, AZ, BY, GE, MD, RU, UA

Emerald Web App development Mirror of the N2000 Web app, with same functionalties and outputs

Emerald Reporting with reference to Recommendation Nr Emerald Reporting with reference to Recommendation Nr. 157 (2012) and Resolution Nr. 8 (2012) Mirror of the N2000 Art. 17 and Art. 12 reporting Same reporting cycle (2013 – 2018) Draft Reporting format (2015) will be adapted according to the latest changes in N2000

Emerald Reporting with reference to Recommendation Nr Emerald Reporting with reference to Recommendation Nr. 157 (2012) and Resolution Nr. 8 (2012) Ad Hoc working group on Reporting: Strasbourg 19/9/16 For the first cycle, selection of species and habitats according to a set of agreed criteria For data collection, the UNEP-WCMC ORS will be used For distribution map: decision on the cartographic parameters for the ETRS 10x10 grid is needed

Questions ??

Towards an Emerald Information System Data Layers to be considered: internal and external Naming Conventions Physical place of source data bases Data Management system … Etc …

Internal Data Layers Sites: delivered in xml but merged to MSAccess Site boundaries: delivered in shp-files and MapInfo but merged in shp Country Reference Data Base: delivered and merged in MSAccess Distribution maps on species and habitats: delivered in a variety of formats but all integrated in shp (?) Electronic Library: MSAccess ( + Excel ?) Draft Conclusions and Conclusions Database: MSAccess Reference List: MSAccess (as resulting from biogeo process) Emerald Data Management System: data delivery versioning and QA/QC ??

External Data Layers Biogeographical Regions Map: N2000 sites data layer Administrative Regions map(s) for countries Country borders: EuroGeographics, EEA or ? Natural Vegetation Map (“Bohn map”) Potential Natural Vegetation Map (Council of Europe) Soil Map ? Reference Grids (EEA, CGRS 50x50 or UTM 10x10km or ?) Distribution maps from other sources ? Marine zones ? CAFF definition of the Arctic boundary ? ??

Sites Country Sites Databases: As exported from the new Emerald Software: “exportSitesToXML” Renamed as “exportSitesToXML-XX-YYYYMM” At international level: All countries merged back in the software and exported to MSAccess: - “exportSitesToXML-ENP-YYYYMM” (only ENP countries) - “exportSitesToXML-CoE-YYYYMM” (ALL Emerald countries) Data definition and Relational Table Structure for the database is missing …..

Site Boundaries layer (GIS) As requested in the data delivery note: “site-boundaries-XX-YYYYMM” At international level: merged into: “site-boundaries-ENP-YYYYMM” (7 ENP countries) “site-boundaries-CoE-YYYYMM” (ALL Emerald countries) …..

Country Reference Data Base As requested in the data delivery note: “ReferenceYYYYMM-XX” At international level: merged into: “ReferenceDatabase-ENP-YYYYMM” (7 ENP countries) “ReferenceDatabase-CoE-YYYYMM” (ALL Emerald countries) Who ? …..

Distribution Maps for Species and Habitats As requested in the data delivery note: The name of the layers for species should start with the species number, followed by a “-“, species name, “-XX” and “-YYYY” (e.g. “1307-Myotis blythii-XX-YYYY”). (YYYY = year, XX = country ISO code). The name of the layers for habitats should start with the EUNIS code, followed by a “-“, habitat name as indicated in Res. 4, “-XX” and “-YYYY”. (YYYY = year, XX = country ISO code) At international level: merged into: ? …..

Draft Conclusions and Conclusions Database and Reference Lists No fixed format yet (ex. 1-2014 preparatory seminars.mdb) First experience within Emerald based on N2000 formats Experienced in seminars: Balkan, CH and NO, ENP preparatory seminars Data structure and fields: overview and final agreement Naming convention ? : Who will do which parts ? (e.g. preparation of the final conclusions files and Reference Lists) …..

Emerald Data Management System mirror N2000 IntraNet to manage data deliveries and QA/QC tools Planned to be based on the N2000 system in place Bern Convention secretariat needs directly be involved at operational level, as it is mainly the secretariat which should benefit from the system, but also being the authority to follow deliveries …..