Third UK Habitats Directive report (2013) - conservation measures for habitats and species at Country and offshore level

This dataset lists conservation measures for habitats and species listed under the Habitats Directive. Every six years, all EU Member States are required (under Article 17 of the Directive) to report on the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive. The 3rd UK Habitats Directive Report was submitted to the European Commission in 2013.
This report includes the need to report on Conservation measures in section 3.2 of the reporting form.
For each habitat and species in each Country (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and offshore), a list of conservation measures was identified. The measures identified represented activities undertaken primarily during the reporting period 2007-2012. They were selected from a standard list of codes/categories that was provided via the EC
Reporting Guidelines (see Appendix 4).
Each measure was assigned to one or more of the following types:
* legal/statutory;
* administrative;
* contractual;
* recurrent;
* one-off.

They were ranked as High, Medium or Low importance, based on the proportion of the target habitat benefiting from the measure.
The geographic area (location) that each measure primarily impacted on was classed as either:
* inside the SAC network;
* outside the SAC network;
* both inside and outside the SAC network.
Finally, a broad evaluation was given to indicate the effectiveness of each measure in maintaining, enhancing or reaching favourable conservation status (FCS). This was based on the following categories:
* maintain â used for measures that were required to maintain FCS;
* enhance â used for measures that enhanced conservation status:
* long-term â used for measures where a positive effect was expected only in the long-term;
* no effect â used for ineffective measures or measures that need to be improved, had not
delivered conservation benefits, had failed to achieve their objectives, or had adverse effects;
* unknown effect â used for measures whose effect was unknown;
* not evaluated â used for measures that not been evaluated

本数据集详列了受《栖息地指令》保护之栖息地与物种的保育措施。根据《指令》第十七条的规定，欧盟所有成员国每六年需提交一份关于欧盟栖息地指令实施情况的报告。2013年，第三份英国《栖息地指令》报告提交至欧洲委员会。该报告在第3.2节中强调了报告保育措施的需求。针对每个国家（英格兰、苏格兰、威尔士、北爱尔兰及海上区域）的每一个栖息地与物种，均识别出一系列保育措施。这些措施主要在报告期2007-2012年间实施，并从欧洲委员会报告指南（见附录4）提供的标准代码/类别列表中选取。每一项措施均被分配至以下类型之一：法律/法定、行政、合同、周期性或一次性。根据受措施惠及的目标栖息地比例，这些措施被划分为高、中或低重要性等级。每一项措施主要影响的地理区域（位置）被归类为：SAC网络内、SAC网络外或SAC网络内外均有。最后，对每一项措施进行总体评估，以表明其在维持、提升或达到有利的保育状况（FCS）方面的有效性。此评估基于以下类别：维持——适用于需要维持FCS的措施；提升——适用于提升保育状况的措施；长期——适用于预期仅在长期内产生积极效果的措施；无效果——适用于无效措施或需改进的措施，尚未产生保育效益，未能实现其目标，或产生负面影响；未知效果——适用于效果未知措施；未评估——适用于未进行评估的措施。