UK Habitats Directive Report (2013): Conservation Measures for Habitats and Species

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee submitted the Third UK Habitats Directive Report to the European Commission in 2013. This dataset lists conservation measures for habitats and species, detailing their type, importance, geographic impact, and evaluated effectiveness. The measures primarily cover activities undertaken during the 2007-2012 reporting period.

Use Cases

• Classifying conservation measure types (legal, administrative, contractual, recurrent, one-off) based on the standard list of codes.
• Ranking the importance of conservation measures (High, Medium, Low) based on the proportion of target habitat benefiting.
• Analyzing the geographic impact of measures relative to the Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) network.
• Evaluating the reported effectiveness of measures in maintaining or enhancing favourable conservation status.

Strengths

• Measures are categorized by a standardized typology (legal, administrative, contractual, recurrent, one-off).
• Each measure is assigned an importance rank (High, Medium, Low) and a geographic impact classification.
• Includes a broad evaluation of each measure's effectiveness based on defined categories (maintain, enhance, long-term, no effect, unknown, not evaluated).
• Data is tied to a specific, mandatory six-year EU reporting cycle (Article 17 of the Habitats Directive).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2007-2012 reporting period.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Aggregated from information provided by UK Country Agencies for the mandatory EU Article 17 report.

Time Range

2007-2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:25.241644; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom