97945f14-ab30-4e1c-ba60-145022234a1a eng nonGeographicDataset Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC data@jncc.gov.uk pointOfContact 2018-05-17 Special Protection Areas (SPAs) bird data assemblages 2016-01-26 2016-01-26 97945f14-ab30-4e1c-ba60-145022234a1a This dataset contains details for each and every bird assemblage on every Special Protection Area (SPA). 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. This dataset contains information drawn from section 3.3 of the Standard Data Form (other important species) and also repeated in free text form in the quality and importance section (section 4.2). This dataset is only applicable to December 2015 onwards - prior to that date the bird assemblage data was integrated with the other bird data (see Special Protection Areas bird data submitted to the EU). From December 2015 onwards this included the following fields SITE_CODE DESIGNATION_TYPE_CODE (always SPA) SITE_NAME COUNTRY_CODE OTHER_SPECIES_GROUP (B = birds) OTHER_SPECIES_CODE (see other_species_name for translation of code). OTHER_SPECIES_NAME (Waterfowl assemblage or breeding seabird assemblage) OTHER_SPECIES_SENSITIVE (0= none sensitive, 1 = sensitive. Note none of these data are sensitive) OTHER_SPECIES_NP (1= feature no longer present) OTHER_SPECIES_SIZE_MIN OTHER_SPECIES_SIZE_MAX (note that min and max are the same for all assemblages) OTHER_SPECIES_UNIT (i= individuals) OTHER_SPECIES_CATEGORY – blank in this case because quantitative population size is always given instead of these broad categories. OTHER_SPECIES_MOTIVATION (C: International Conventions - in this case Ramsar for the non breeding waterfowl; D: other reasons) 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 biota 1999-01-01 2015-12-22 Comma Separated Values Unknown http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/97945f14-ab30-4e1c-ba60-145022234a1a-Natura2000-tranche50-SPA-assemblages.csv Natura2000-tranche50-SPA-assemblages.csv 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.