4ce89031-266f-4152-b703-9d2f0cfe4f9c eng nonGeographicDataset Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC data@jncc.gov.uk pointOfContact 2018-05-17 Special Protection Areas (SPAs) all site details (archive series from August 2009 to July 2015) 2016-01-26 2016-01-26 4ce89031-266f-4152-b703-9d2f0cfe4f9c This spreadsheet contains the UK wide data submitted to the EU Commmission as part of the Standard Data Form information completed for all Special Protection Areas. Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive, which came into force in April 1979. They are classified for rare and vulnerable birds (as listed on Annex I of the Directive), and for regularly occurring migratory species. The EU Commission requires information on each site to be compiled in the form of a Standard Data Form. This dataset is updated every time a new or amended batch of information is submitted to the EU Commission. It is an archived data series form August 2009 to July 2015). Note that Gibraltar information is not included in this spreadsheet. Please note that this information was superceded in December 2015 by a spreadsheet that contains information for both SACs and also SPAs - in other words for the whole Natura 2000 network. This dataset is entitled "Natura 2000 all site details" The information provided here, follows the officially agreed site information format for Natura 2000 sites, as set out in the Official Journal of the European Union recording the Commission Implementing Decision of 11 July 2011 (2011/484/EU). The content matches exactly the data submitted to the European Commission. Further technical documentation may be found here http://bd.eionet.europa.eu/activities/Natura_2000/reference_portal More general information on Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in the United Kingdom is available from the SAC home page on the JNCC website. http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=23. This webpage also provides links to Standard Data Forms for all SACs in the UK. this sheet is organised in a series of tabs - corresponding to different sections of the standard data form. All sheets are filterable by Country codes - (E, S, W, NI and OF for offshore). Cross border sites take the first letter of each country code eg EW for England Wales, SO for Scotland/Offshore. The tabs are: *SPA Site details - one row per site, containing basic site details. *Bird data submitted to the EU - species listed in section 3.2 of the standard data form and also bird assemblages identified in section 4.2 *SPA Maps - a facility to produce simple dot maps of sites *SPA Habitat classes *Bird data assemblages *SPA Physical site characteristics (pre 2013 versions of this spreadshet only - from 2013 these details are integrated into a column on the site details table). Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC data@jncc.gov.uk custodian Freshwater Marine Terrestrial Protected Areas Habitats Directive Natura 2000 Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: "Contains public sector data © JNCC/NE/NRW/SNH/DOENI. Licence: OGL" otherRestrictions no limitations eng environment 1999-01-01 2015-12-22 Microsoft Excel for Windows Unknown http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/4ce89031-266f-4152-b703-9d2f0cfe4f9c-UK-SPA-DATA-20150414.xls UK-SPA-DATA-20150414.xls Each of the tabs in the spreadsheet has been derived from a master SQL server database managed by JNCC. This database is used to provide the official EU submission and also to generate the Standard Data Forms. From December 2015, JNCC published information for both SAC and SPA on the same spreadsheet. The information provided here, follows the officially agreed site information format for Natura 2000 sites, as set out in the Official Journal of the European Union recording the Commission Implementing Decision of 11 July 2011 (2011/484/EU). This is known as the Standard Data Format. As part of the December 2015 submission, several sections of the UK’s previously published Standard Data Forms have been updated. For details of the approach taken by the UK in this submission please refer to the following document: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/Natura2000_StandardDataForm_UKApproach_Dec2015.pdf. More general information on Special Protection Areas (SPAs) in the United Kingdom is available from the SPA home page on the JNCC website. This webpage also provides links to Standard Data Forms for all SPAs in the UK. For all sites other than those in the offshore zone, the Statutory Nature Conservation Body responsible for the site (eg Natural England or Scottish Natural Heritage) has supplied JNCC with the information for the standard data forms.