APPENDIX 3
Corrigenda to Interim Report
REPORT
Contents (page 4)
In the list of witnesses for 30 June 1999, the
Scottish Office and the Minstry of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Food should have been included as well as the Department of the
Environment, Transport and the Regions.
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Paragraph 3, line 5 (at end): delete "Action".
Footnote 1: "adopted by the Council"
should read "endorsed . . .".
Footnote 2: for "Birds Directive"
read "Habitats Directive".
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Paragraph 8: lines 4-5 should read ". .
. an account of progress in the implementation of the Convention,
in its First Report . . .".
EVIDENCE
Memorandum by WWF-UK (28 April 1999)
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At the end of the memorandum, the following
list of Annexes was omitted in error.
Annex I has been reproduced as Appendix 4 to
the present Report; the other Annexes have not been printed.
| Annexes |
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| Annex I | Status of implementation of Natura 2000 in the EU Member States (December 1998)
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| Annex II | WWF-UK response to JNCC Report Number 270 (7 January 1998)
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| Annex III | WWF-UK's intervention in Case C-371/98 R v The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions ex parte First Corporate Shipping Limited (January 1999)
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| Annex IV | WWF-UK report "Criteria for the Selection of Potential Special Areas of Conservation under the Habitats Directive I and II" (July 1997 and updated March 1999)
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| Annex V | WWF-UK's Shadow List—Rationale and Proposed Procedure (October 1998)
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| Annex VI | Information relating to the launch of WWF-UK's SAC Shadow List (October 1998)
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| Annex VII | WWF-UK'/The Wildlife Trusts joint report "The Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in West Wales" (May 1998)
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| Annex VIII | Terms of reference for WWF-UK research into the definition of favourable conservation status in Cornwall (September 1998)
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| Annex IX | WCL position paper on Positive Management Orders (1999)
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| Annex X | WWF-UK response to DETR Guidance on Articles 6(3) and (4) of the EU Habitats Directive (May 1998)
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| Annex XI | WWF position paper on Article 6 of the EU Habitats Directive (March 1999)
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| Annex XII | WWF-UK/HCT/FoE joint complaint to the European Commission regarding the UK government's transposition of the EU Habitats and Species Directive (October 1994)
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| Annex XIII | WWF report "Natura 2000—opportunities and obstacles" (to be published in the UK in July 1999)
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| Annex XIV | "The European Commission and the Enforcement of Environmental Law: An invidious Position" Rhiannon Williams, 1995. Formerly DG XI of European Commission.
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Memoranda by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
(14 May 1999)
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Replace Tables 1 and 2 as follows:
Table 1
Summary statistics for candidate SACs and classified
SPAs in the UK (May 1999)
|
| COUNTRY | CANDIDATES SACs
| CLASSIFIED SPAs
|
| NO OF SITES
| AREA (HA) | NO OF SITES
| AREA (HA) |
|
| Scotland | 124
| 611,889 | 103
| 340,218 |
| England | 141
| 540,472 | 72
| 386,901 |
| Wales | 40
| 371,544 | 11
| 66,830 |
| Northern Ireland1 | 21
| 47,104 | 11
| 70,660 |
| Scotland/England | 3
| 111,599 | 1
| 30,706 |
| England/Wales | 4
| 3,605 | 2
| 37,786 |
|
| UK Total | 333
| 1,686,213 | 200
| 933,101 |
|
1 In Northern Ireland, 3 SPAs and 6 candidate SACs adjoin
the border with the Republic of Ireland. Information on corresponding
designations in the Republic is incomplete.
Table 2
Summary statistics for candidate SACs and classified
SPAs with marine/estuarine interest in the UK (May 1999)2
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| COUNTRY | CANDIDATES SACs
| CLASSIFIED SPAs
|
| NO OF SITES
| AREA (HA) | NO OF SITES
| AREA (HA) |
|
| Scotland | 13
| 171,205 | 17
| 31,378 |
| England | 17
| 302,489 | 38
| 228,613 |
| Wales | 4 |
314,632 | 5
| 10,707 |
| Northern Ireland | 2
| 18,739 | 6
| 22,785 |
| Scotland/England | 2
| 108,974 | 1
| 30,706 |
| England/Wales | 0
| 0 | 2
| 37,786 |
|
| UK Total | 38
| 916,040 | 69
| 361,975 |
| Proportion of total UK site list |
11.4% | 54.3%
| 34.5% | 38.8%
|
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2 Some sites with marine/esturine interest also include significant
areas of terrestrial habitat. The site area figures in Table 2
do not therefore necessarily correspond exactly to the area of
marine/esturine habitat.
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