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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-2332/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2016/2332",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2332 of 9 December 2016 adopting a 10th update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region (notified under document C(2016) 8185)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2016-2332",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/2332\nof 9 December 2016\nadopting a 10th update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region\n(notified under document C(2016) 8185)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 4(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nThe Alpine biogeographical region referred to in Article 1(c)(iii) of Directive 92/43/EEC comprises the Union territories of the Alps (Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Slovenia), the Pyrenees (Spain and France), the Apennine mountains (Italy), the northern Fennoscandian mountains (Finland and Sweden), the Carpathian mountains (Poland, Romania and Slovakia), the Dinaric Mountains (Slovenia and Croatia) and the Balkan, Rila, Pirin, Rhodope and the Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mountains (Bulgaria), as specified in the biogeographical map approved on 20 April 2005 by the committee set up by Article 20 of that Directive (the ‘Habitats Committee’).\n(2)\nThe initial list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region, within the meaning of Directive 92/43/EEC, was adopted by Commission Decision 2004/69/EC. That list was last updated by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2370.\n(3)\nThe sites included in the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region form part of the Natura 2000 network which is an essential element of the protection of biodiversity in the Union. In order to make further progress in the actual establishment of the Natura 2000 network and in the context of a dynamic adaptation of that network, the lists of sites of Community importance are reviewed regularly.\n(4)\nBetween 16 January 2015 and 31 January 2016 Member States have proposed additional sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 92/43/EEC. Member States have also submitted changes in the site-related information contained in the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region.\n(5)\nOn the basis of the draft list drawn up by the Commission in agreement with each of the Member States concerned, which also identifies sites hosting priority natural habitat types or priority species, an updated list of sites selected as sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region should be adopted. Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive 92/43/EEC apply to the newly included sites.\n(6)\nKnowledge of the existence and distribution of the natural habitat types and species is constantly evolving as a result of the surveillance undertaken in accordance with Article 11 of Directive 92/43/EEC. Therefore, the evaluation and selection of sites at Union level was carried out using the best available information at the time.\n(7)\nCertain Member States have not proposed sufficient sites to meet the requirements of Directive 92/43/EEC for certain habitat types and species. Furthermore, knowledge of the existence and distribution of some of the natural habitat types listed in Annex I and some of the species listed in Annex II to Directive 92/43/EEC remains incomplete. For those habitat types and species it can therefore not be concluded that the Natura 2000 network is complete.\n(8)\nIn the interests of clarity and transparency, Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2370 should be repealed.\n(9)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Habitats Committee,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2004/69/EC of 22 December 2003 adopting, pursuant to Council Directive 92/43/EEC, the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region (OJ L 14, 21.1.2004, p. 21)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2370 of 26 November 2015 adopting a ninth update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region (OJ L 338, 23.12.2015, p. 367)."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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