European list of Sites of Community Importance (SCI);
Explanation:
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Natura 2000 Schutzgebiete
PPENDIX 9
Glossary of acronyms and technical terms
ASSI
Area of Special Scientific Interest (Northern Ireland)
BAP
Biodiversity Action Plan
CAP
Common Agricultural Policy
CBD
Convention on Biological Diversity
CCW
Countryside Council for Wales
CEECs
Central and Eastern European Countries
CLA
Country Landowners\' Association
DETR
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
DG
Directorate-General (e.g. of the European Commission)
EEA
European Environment Agency
ETCNC
European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation
IEEP
Institute for European Environmental Policy
JNCC
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
LIFE
Financial Instrument for the Environment (see paragraphs 5961)
MAFF
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Natura 2000
EU network of Sites of Community Importance
NGO
Non-governmental organisation
NIS
New Independent States (former USSR, excluding the Baltic States)
Objective 1
Assistance to underdeveloped regions of the EU; one of the five
objectives of the Structural Funds (applicable up to the end of 1999)[50]
Phare
EU programme of technical assistance to the CEECs (qv)
REPS
Rural Environment Protection Scheme (Ireland)
RSPB
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
SAC
Special Area of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
SCI
Site of Community Importance
SPA
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
SSSI
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Tacis
EU programme of technical assistance to the NIS (qv) and Mongolia
(originally an acronym for \"Technical Assistance to the Commonwealth
of Independent States\")
WWF
World Wide Fund for Nature
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/ site of Community importance
Definition (english only)
Site of Community importance means a site which, in the biogeographical
region or regions to which is belongs, contributes significantly to the
maintenance or restoration at a favourable conservation status of a
natural habitat type in Annex I or of a species in Annex II and may also
contribute significantly to the coherence of Natura 2000 referred to in
Article 3, and/or contributes significantly to the maintenance of biological
diversity within the biogeographic region or regions concerned. For animal
species ranging over wide areas, sites of Community importance shall
correspond to the places within the natural range of such species which
present the physical or biological factors essential to their life and
reproduction.
Definition source
Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural
habitats and of wild fauna and flora (art 1 k).
Translations of \"site of Community importance\":
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