1. Natura 2000 dataflow & Standard data forms
Habitats Committee
Brussels, 3 October 2013

2. Deadline for submitting national Natura 2000 databases in 2013
31 October 2013
(for EU-wide database, Natura 2000 Viewer, annual statistics & Union List 2014)

3. New QA/QC reports (Quality assurance / quality control)
First QA/QCs submitted to Member States in September 2013, based on end-of-2012 databases
EEA currently works on further automatizing (objective: rapid feedback on Reportnet (.xml))
2014: further improvements to the content of the report (incl. comparison between spatial and tabular area data)

4. Natura 2000 software
New version of the software available for download (
Additional function for printing pdfs for individual sites
habitat types & species added / EU accession of Croatia
A request for those using the software: please submit the database both in .xml and .mdb format