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1. General information 1.1 Number of SCIs and SACs by biogeographical region

Sites of Community Interest (SCIs) Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) Total Marine Total Marine Region

No. Area (km²) No. Area (km²) No. Area (km²) No. Area (km²) Atlantic 611 25047 73 12059

1.2 Number of sites with specific management instruments – Article 6(1)

With management plan With management plan in preparation

With management body

With other territorial planning instruments

With non-planning instruments

507 18 86

2. Number of habitats and species per region HABITATS SPECIES

Region Annex I Annex II Annex IV Annex V

Non-priority Priority Non-

priority Priority Including those in Annex II

Excluding those in Annex II

Including those in Annex II

Excluding those in Annex II

61 22 43 3 51 29 25 17 Number of habitats & species in the MS 83 46 51 25 Atlantic 51 21 38 1 36 19 21 15 Mediterranean 7 1 1 1 Marine Atlantic 5 4 12 10 4 2 Marine Mediterranean 2 1 2 3

Note: Marginal habitats, marginal and occasional species and species extinct prior to when the Habitat Directive came into force (if any) were not taken into account in the table above nor in the statistics of the National Summary. Number of marginal habitats: none Number of marginal & occasional species: 4 in Atlantic region 1in Mediterranean region, 25 in Marine Atlantic region and 7 in Marine Mediterranean region. Number of species extinct prior Habitats Directive came into the force: none Number of species extinct after Habitats Directive came into the force: none

3. Information on conservation status 3.1 Overall assessment of conservation status by biogeographical region (%)

HABITATS

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ATL MED MATL MMED

FV – Favourable

U1 – Unfavourable inadequate

U2 – Unfavourable bad

XX - Unknown

NA – Not reported

HABITATS SPECIES Region / Conclusion

FV U1 U2 XX NA FV U1 U2 XX NA Atlantic 6 10 81 3 23 33 22 22 Mediterranean 62 38 100 Marine Atlantic 40 60 38 19 43 Marine Mediterranean 50 50 100 Member State 12 13 69 6 25 32 18 25

Note: The highest values are highlighted.

3.2 Number of habitats / species with unfavourable CS but improving or deteriorating Conservation Status U1+ U1- U2+ U2-

Habitats 8 2 32 22 Species 11 4 5 8

3.3 Overall assessment of conservation status by habitat category / species group (%)

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Co stal hab. (17)

Dunes (13)

Freshwater hab. (8)

Heath & scrubs (6)

Sclero philus scrub (4)

Grasslands (9)

P eatlands (9)

Ro cky hab. (10)

Fo rests (11)

(yy) = number of occurrences

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

No n-vascular plants (9)

Vascular plants (11)

M o lluscs (7)

A rthro po ds (7)

Fish (12)

A mphibians (4)

Reptiles (5)

M ammals (37)

Others (1)

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3.4 Conservation status for each parameter (%) HABITATS SPECIES Region / Conclusion

FV U1 U2 XX NA FV U1 U2 XX NA Range 93 1 6 78 7 7 8 Area / Population 45 31 7 17 36 17 17 30 Structure / Habitat 16 9 70 5 25 28 4 43 Future Prospects 26 26 40 8 41 28 8 23

3.5 Frequency of pressures and threats (%) HABITATS SPECIES

Category of pressure / threat Actual pressures

Future threats

Actual pressures

Future threats

Agriculture, Forestry 67 53 55 Fishing, hunting and collecting 14 6 38 38 Mining and extraction of materials 28 2 30 20 Urbanisation, industrialisation and similar activities 17 3 32 26 Transportation and communication 9 5 39 29 Leisure and tourism (other than above) 7 1 23 18 Pollution and other human impacts/activities 10 28 54 56 Human induced changes in wetlands and marine environments 9 5 51 51 Natural processes (biotic and abiotic) 8 5 57 57

4. Data quality and completeness 4.1 Percentage of mandatory information missing or reported as unknown

HABITATS

Habitat Range Habitat area Structure & Functions

Future prospects

Surf. Trend Ref. range Concl. Area Trend Ref. area Concl.

Typical species Concl. Concl.

Overall assessment Maps

16 8 6 18 25 26 17 98 5 8 6 7

SPECIES

Species Range Species Population Habitat of species Future prospects

Surf. Trend Ref. range Concl. Size Trend Ref.

size Concl. Area Trend Suit. Hab. Concl. Future Concl.

Overall assess-

ment Maps

20 19 23 9 17 33 34 30 87 51 96 43 23 23 25 9

4.2 Percentage of optional fields for which information was provided

Habitat trends N2000 conclusions habitats

Maps Species trends N2000 conclusions species

Maps

1 5

4.3 Percentage of data quality level for different parameters HABITATS SPECIES Data quality level

Range Area Range Population Habitat of species Good 37 21 39 27 7 Moderate 50 42 44 30 4 Poor 13 37 17 43 89