Results from Art 12 reporting period 2008-2012

The European Commission and the European Environment Agency (supported by its European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity) have published several reports summarising the main result of the status of birds and Habitats Directive habitats and species at the EU (EU biogeographical) level.

The following links give access to published reports:

• The State of Nature in the European Union Commission report, brochure

• State of nature in the EU. Results from reporting under the nature directives 2007–2012 (Report from the European Environment Agency; a compendium of main results)

On line access to the reported data and assessments

The information reported by the Member States and the EU assessments of status can be accessed through the web viewing tool:

• Article 12 web tool

ERRATUM!!! The EU population status and Contribution to Target 1 of 15 bird species have been revised. Corrected EU status is available here.

Reporting datasets

Dataset containing the reported information and the EU assessments of status can be downloaded from European Environment Agency’s datacentre following the links below:

• Article 12 datasets (tabular and spatial)

Statistical summaries per Member State

Basic statistics and an overview of the main results from the Member State reports are provided in National Summaries:

• Article 12 National Summaries

Other relevant publications

Other publications related to reports under the Article 12 can be accessed here:

• Austria
• Belgium Wallonia
• Germany
• Italy
• Netherlands
• Slovakia

Member State deliveries

The Article 12 reports from the Member States were delivered via the ReportNet mechanisms of the European Environment Agency. The section below gives access to Member State reports on ReportNet and to a brief evaluation of conformity of reported data (scoreboard).

Links to the Article 12 reports from Member States

The Article 12 reports from the Member States were delivered via the ReportNet mechanisms of the European Environment Agency. The links below give access to Member State report on ReportNet:

Member State	Link to 2nd Delivery
AT	General report	Bird reports	all files
BE	General report	Bird reports	all files
BG	General report	Bird reports	all files
CY	General report	Bird reports	all files
CZ	General report	Bird reports	all files
DE	General report	Bird reports	all files
DK	General report	Bird reports	all files
EE	General report	Bird reports	all files
ES	General report	Bird reports (mainland)	all files
ES	General report	Bird reports (Canary islands)	all files
FI	General report	Bird reports	all files
FR	General report	Bird reports	all files
GR	General report	Bird reports	all files
HU	General report	Bird reports	all files
IE	General report	Bird reports	all files
IT	General report	Bird reports	all files
LT	General report	Bird reports	all files
LU	General report	Bird reports	all files
LV	General report	Bird reports	all files
MT	General report	Bird reports	all files
NL	General report	Bird reports	all files
PL	General report	Bird reports	all files
PT	General report	Bird reports(mainland)	all files
PT	General report	Bird reports(Azores)	all files
PT	General report	Bird reports(Madeira)	all files
RO	General report	Bird reports	all files
SE	General report	Bird reports	all files
SI	General report	Bird reports	all files
SK	General report	Bird reports	all files
UK	General report	Bird reports	all files
UK	General report	Bird reports(Gibraltar)	all files

Conformity with reporting format of the data delivered

The conformity of data with the requirements in the reporting formats was evaluated after the submission. A brief note on data conformity for each Member State is provided in a form of a scoreboard. (Details of the evaluation criteria used are available here).

Detailed supporting statistics per country are available here.

Member State	Subnational unit	Missing obligatory information	Absent and unknown information
AT
BE
BG
CY
CZ
DE
DK
EE
ES
ES	Canary Islands
FI
FR
HU
IE
IT
LT
LU
LV
MT
NL
PL
PT
PT	Azores
PT	Madeira
RO
SE
SI
SK
UK	Gibraltar
UK

The thresholds for assigning a smiley on data quality are explained below. Different thresholds have been used for "Missing obligatory information" on one hand and "Absent and unknown information" on the other hand.

	Thresholds used for "Missing obligatory information"		Thresholds used for "Unknown and Missing overall conclusion" and "Absent & Unknown information"
	less than 2%		less than 10%
	between 2 and 5%		between 10 and 25%
	more than 5%		more than 25%