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T-PVS/PA (2009) 4 CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF EUROPEAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL HABITATS ---ooOoo--- Development of the Emerald Sites Network in South-East Europe under the CARDS programme of the European Environment Agency Final Report December 2008 ---ooOoo--- Document established by the Directorate of Culture and of Cultural and Natural Heritage Summary Preliminary note ………………………………………………….. 3 Introduction……………………………………………………….. 5 1. Sumary statistics for site data ………………………………….. 6 2. Distribution an population data for species and habitats……….. 15 3. GIS distribution data at national level for species and habitats… 18 4. GIS boundary data for sites …………………………………….. 21 5. Towards site Network evaluation ………………………………. 23 6. Conclusions……………………………………………………………………… 35 7. Ackwnowledgements……………………………………………………………. 35 Annexes Annex I: List of proposed Emerald sites (ASCI’s) per country (ordered by site code)………………………………………………. 37 Annex II: Number of sites per Habitat of Resolution Nr. 4 (for Croatia the habitat list corresponds to Annex I of the Habitats Directive)……… 56 Annex III: Number of sites for Amphibians and Reptiles (in alphabetical order) 61 Annex IV: Number of sites for Birds (in alphabetical order)…………………… 61 Annex V: Number of sites for Fishes (in alphabetical order)………………….. 65 Annex VI: Number of sites for Invertebrates (in alphabetical order)…………… 65 Annex VII: Number of sites for Mammals (in alphabetical order)………………. 65 Annex VIII: Number of sites for Plants (in alphabetical order)…………………… 66 Annex IX: Emerald Sites Database Structure and detailed list of information fields per table in the Emerald database and section number from the Standard Data Form to which the field refers……………………. 67 Annex X: Regional Meeting of Experts for the Development of the Emerald Network (CARDS programme), Ohrid, 10-11 July 2006: Summary conclusions………………………………………………… 75 Annex XI: Detailed report on changes made to the sites database of Serbia-Montenegro (CS) when creating the database for Montenegro (ME)…………………………………………………….. 77 Annex XII: Detailed report on changes made to the sites database of Serbia-Montenegro (CS) when creating the database for Serbia……... 79 Development of the Emerald Network in the West-Balkan countries, final report 2008 2 (RS) Annex XIII: Second Regional Meeting of Experts for the Development of the Emerald Network (CARDS programme), Zagreb, 1-2 October 2008: Summary Conclusions…………………………… 81 Annex XIV List of national representatives responsible for the implementation of the Programme CARDS/Emerald…………………………………. 84 Development of the Emerald Network in the West-Balkan countries, final report 2008 3 Preliminary note In accordance with Contract No. 3431/B2005/EEA.52254 signed on 27 July 2005, the European Environment Agency and the Council of Europe have agreed to implement a programme for the identification of Areas of Special Conservation Interest (Emerald Network) in five States of the South-East of Europe : Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. Following the separation of the Union of States of Serbia and Montenegro, the second part of the implementation of this programme was made with six countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and “the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”. This specific CARDS project represented a continuation of the initial set-up made by a programme of pilot projects organised by he Council of Europe in the six countries concerned. The Contract ended on 28 December 2006. As specified in Annex I to the Contract, the outputs of the programme were : - Distribution per biogeographical region in each country of all species and habitats of Resolutions No. 4 (1996) and No. 6 (1998) of the Bern Convention and Annex I of the Habitats Directive ; - Distribution maps of selected species and habitats in GIS ; - Sites database for 80 % of the sites to be listed with 60 % of all ecological data filled in ; - Digital boundaries for all sites in GIS. A second contract (Service Contract No. 3603/B2007/EEA.53026) was signed on 15 August 2007 in order to complete the identification of the potential sites of the Emerald Network in these countries by the end of 2008 and the delivery of the completed scientific data concerning these sites. An Amendment No. 1 to this contract was signed on 31 July 2008 for the integration of the data gathered during this programme into one regional database with the aim to enhance the output of the overall project and the integration of the results into the European database. Administrative arrangements and contracts have been drawn up between the Council of Europe and the six countries concerned (list of the national representatives responsible for the implementation of the programme in the six countries appended in Annex XIV). A specific contract was also drawn up between the Council of Europe and the consultant of the Council of Europe for the implementation of the Emerald Network, Mr Marc Roekaerts, concerning the technical assistance to be provided to the countries for the development of this programme. According to the contracts and the administrative arrangements signed between respectively the Council of Europe and the EEA and the Council of Europe and the six countries concerned, final reports and all the relevant data have been delivered in due time. Copies of the national reports are appended in addition to this Final Report, together with copies of the contracts and/or administrative arrangements between the Council of Europe and the countries and the consultant, Mr Marc Roekaerts. Development of the Emerald Network in the West-Balkan countries, final report 2008 4 All the data have been uploaded to the following website of the European Environment Agency : http://eea.eionet.europa.eu/Members/irc/eionet- circle/etcnpb/library?l=/cards_20052006/2008/emerald&vm=detailed&sb=Title Development of the Emerald Network in the West-Balkan countries, final report 2008 5 Introduction This final report describes the activities performed and the data collected in six West- Balkan countries in the framework of the development of the Emerald Network under the CARDS program up to 2008. The creation of the Emerald network was started with a series of pilot projects, funded by the Council of Europe. The main purpose was to initiate the process, to create the emerald expert teams in each country and to set up a pilot project sites database. The first workshops under this phase were as follows: • Albania (AL): 22-23 April 2002 • Croatia (HR): 14-15 Feb. 2002 • Serbia-Montenegro (CS): 26-27 April 2005 • Bosnia-Herzegovina (BA): 8-9 March 2005 • FYR of Macedonia (MK): 21-22 March 2002 The CARDS project represented a continuation of the initial set-up made by a programme of pilot projects organised by he Council of Europe in the six countries concerned and the implementation of the second phase of the Emerald Network. In this second phase, funded by the CARDS program, countries are set to the same timing and emphasis is given to the collection of sites data together with GIS boundary data on the one hand and distribution and population data for a selection of species and habitats, also in GIS format, on the other hand. The second phase was also initiated by a workshop in each of the countries to evaluate and correct, if necessary, the results of the pilot projects and to introduce the second phase. The workshops were held as follows: • Albania (AL), Tirana: 16-17 January 2006 • Bosnia-Herzegovina (BA), Sarajevo: 13-14 February 2006 • Croatia (HR), Zagreb: 19-21 December 2005 • FYR of Macedonia (MK), Skopje: 7-9 December 2005 • Serbia-Montenegro (CS), Beograd: 7-8 February 2006 In most of the countries these workshop were held together with the workshops under the responsibility of the European Topic Centre for Terrestrial Environment (ETC/TE) and the European Topic Centre for Biodiversity (ETC/BD) of the European Environment Agency. For a summary of those activities we refer to the relevant reports. A regional meeting was organized in Ohrid (FYR of Macedonia) on 10 and 11 of July 2006 to evaluate progress and to discuss common problems and goals. The summary conclusions can be found in annex X. At the Emerald expert group meeting in Strasbourg (9 October 2006), the group congratulated all contributors for the progress made and the hope was expressed to start the full network evaluation within the West Balkan countries as the first region were such evaluation could be tested. Development of the Emerald Network in the West-Balkan countries, final report 2008 6 In 2007, the data for Serbia-Montenegro (CS) were split into two individual country databases (cntryme.mdb for Montenegro and cntryrs.mdb for Serbia) and the Emerald software was adapted accordingly to be able to take into account those changes. Detailed reports on the changes made can be found in annex XI and XII. In 2008, new contracts were signed between Council of Europe and each of the 6 countries involved, to finalise the sites database up to 100%. A second regional workshop was held in Zagreb on 1 and 2 oktober 2008. The summary conclusions of this meeting can be found in annex XIII. Final results were shown to the Standing Committee meeting of the Bern Convention at 26 November 2008. The meeting congratulated for the results obtained and expressed its wish to find the ways for the evaluation of the sites database in the coming year with te view of adopting the first Emerald sites at its next meeting in 2009. 1. Summary statistics for Site data The general purpose of the final phase of the project was to produce a data base with approximately 100 % of all possible sites, filled with 80 % of the necessary data for the total of the sites. The table named as “cntry-cards-200812-merge” is the result of merging the 6 country sites databases into one single database in MSAccess.