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WELCOME to the web pages of the ETC on Biological Diversity
The ETC/BD is an international consortium working with the European Environment Agency under a framework partnership agreement. The main tasks of the topic centre are:
- Assist the European Environment Agency in its task of reporting on Europe's environment by addressing state and trends of biodiversity in Europe
- Provide the relevant information to support the implementation of environmental and sustainable development policies in Europe in particular for EU nature and biodiversity policies (DG Environment: Nature and Biodiversity)
- Build capacity for reporting on biodiversity in Europe, mainly through the European Information and Observation Network (Eionet)
The current consortium of the ETC/BD started its operation on the 1st of January 2009. Further details on the current consortium are available in the web page named 'Structure' above.
News from the Topic Center
# 21/5/2013 New edition of the Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats now available
A new edition for the EU28 has just been published following its approval by the Habitats Committee last month. The major changes are the addition of 2 new habitats requested by Croatia ('32A0 Tufa cascades of karstic rivers of the Dinaric Alps' and
'6540 Sub-Mediterranean grasslands of the Molinio-Hordeion secalini') and a revision of habitat 8140 Eastern Mediterranean screes to cover variation in the west Balkans. The opportunity has been taken to correct EUNIS habitat codes for marine habitat types and to make some other minor corrections. (more...)
# 30/1/2013 French translation of the EUNIS classification
The MNHN has just published a tanslation into French of the EUNIS habitat classifications. The ETC/BD Director Dominique Richard provided a foreword. (more...)
# 17/12/2012 ETC/BD Newsletter
The December 2012 ETC/BD newletter is now available. (more...)
# 06/11/2012 CDDA 2012 data available
The latest version of the nationally desinated protected areas in Europe (the CDDA dataset) is available on the EEA data service . The site contains the database, the GIS data and the QA/QC reports (more...)
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