Capacity Building Workshop on Biodiversity Indicators4-6 November 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia

National experience with biodiversity indicators in the Republic of Croatia

Gordana KolačkoCroatian Environment Agency

Background

Croatia - EEA cooperating country since 2004 - EU/EEA member country on 1 July 2013

Participation in EIONET helpfull in:- understanding the scope and content of future reporting

obligation- process of designing appropriate information and

reporting systemExample: Development of Croatian National list of

indicators 2009, revision 2011

Institutional framework

Responsible governmental institution for biodiversity:

•Ministry of Environmnetal and Nature Protection (MENP)•State Institute for Nature Protection (SINP)•Stakeholders: other ministries and public institutions, NGOs, scientific institutions

•EEA NFP – Croatian Environment Agency (CEA)

established in June 2002 by Governmental regulation, as a public institution

CEA

Environmental Protection Act (O.G. 80/2013)

The Agency - cooperate with the EEA and report in accordance with the requirements of the EIONET.

The activities of the Agency include: -Obligation for preparation of the state of environment report every 4 years based on the set of environmental indicators

-Developing the National indicator list on the basis of special regulations and international treaties, taking into account specific requirements for the environmental protection. NLI regularly updated and published at the website of the CEA.

EEA reporting

Cooperation with EEA:

CEA to participate in EIONET since 2004CEA coordinates reporting under EEA Priority Data Flows/ CDDA

(Common Database on Designated Areas) and uploads database on CDR Croatia. Database is provided by SINP and Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection.

Major developments

Priority Data Flow score 2005 → 17%

Priority Data Flow score 2007 → 71%

Priority Data Flow score 2009 → 78%Priority Data Flow score 2011 → 89%Priority Data Flow score 2012 → 92%(+3)

CDDA

Report:

Eionet priority data flows, May 2012–April 2013 (EEA)

Data flow analysis for Croatia•Progress 2012–2013

CDDA1: Designated areas•Delivery on time: 437 sites reported. •All sites have information on IUCN category, size, coordinates and site designation. •Boundaries have been reported for all sites.

EEA reporting

EEA reporting

SOER - State of Environment Report (Croatia)

http://soer2010.ew.eea.europa.eu/-Part C –country-level analysis

-A part of this document was Nature protection and biodiversity

-Upload to SOER portal

EEA reporting

Cooperation with EEA:

BENEFITS:

Improved contacts with ETCs and independent experts

Improved national expert's network

Improved regional cooperation

Improved national SOER

National reporting

Indicator based:

Annual publication: Environment in your pocket (every year)

State of Environment Report (every 4 years)

Other publication

National List of Indicators

In cooperation with the competent authorities of the Croatian government and proffessional and scientific institutions CEA has revised the draft of the NLI, 2009.

NLI - integrated tool for implementing the monitoring and environmental reporting

-245 datasheets for 27 topics

- 19 biodiversity indicators

National List of Indicators

• The National list of indicators includes prescriptions on the time dynamics of data collection, format, source and mode of data flow.

• The proposal of the list was coordinated with the EEA in order to align it with the SEBI set of indicators.

• The methodology to develop biodiversity indicators in Croatia was also developed.

National List of Indicators

National biodiversity indicators in the Republic of Croatia

•ZPV 01 Protected areas under the Nature Protection Act•BR 01 Areas in the ecological network of the Republic of Croatia•BR 02 Areas of interest for the EU•BR 03 Representation of certain class of habitat types •BR 04 Representation of threatened and rare habitat types in Croatia•BR 05 Representation of habitat types of interest to the EU •BR 06 State of conservation of endangered wild species from the Croatian Red List•BR 07 Abundance and distribution of the selected species •BR 08 Population trends of birds in agricultural areas•BR 09 Invasive alien species•BR 10 Conservation of genetic resources in agriculture

National List of Indicators

• BR 11 Share of agricultural area in the areas of interest for the EU• BR 12 Agricultural areas of high natural value• BR 13 Freshwater fishponds of high natural value• BR 14 Dead trees in the forests• BR 15 Fragmentation of natural and seminatural areas• BR 16 Marine Protected Areas• BR 17 Funding of biodiversity protection and conservation• BR 18 Public awareness about nature conservation

Progress on activities

- Contact and information exchange with Croatian BIP participant

- Prepared fact sheet SEBI 07 National Designated Protected Areas

- State Environment Report for period 2008-2012

- Meeteng with participant from SINP on fact sheets

- Established Web Map Service/WMS with SINPhttp://natura2000.dzzp.hr:6080/arcgis/services/zasticenapodrucja/zasticenapodrucja/MapServer/WMSServer?

SEBI 007

SEBI 007 Nationally designated protected areas

Figure 1:

Growth of nationally

designated areas

in the Republic

of Croatia

SEBI 007

SEBI 007 Nationally designated protected areas

Figure 2.

Geographic coverage

of nationally designated

areas in the Republic

of Croatia

National indicators

Thanks for your attention!

e-mail: gordana.kolacko@azo.hr www.azo.hr