Reference portal for reporting under Article 12 of the Birds Directive

This reference portal contains reference documents related to the information provided in the Article 12 report formats of the Birds Directive for the period 2019-2024.

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Format, Explanatory Notes and Guidelines for the period 2019-2024

Reporting format Article 12

• Reporting Format Art. 12

• Reporting Format Art. 12

Explanatory notes

• Explanatory Notes Art. 12

• Explanatory Notes Art. 12

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/695 of 27 March 2023

This Decision establishes the format of the report regarding the status and trends of wild bird species referred to in Article 12 of Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and the Council (Birds Directive) (notified under document C(2023) 1889)

• Implementing Decision in all languages

Guidelines on concepts and definitions

• Guidelines Art. 12

• Guidelines Art. 12

Reference material for reports

The report format includes several fields with standardised data, which are also mentioned in the Explanatory notes and guidelines. This material is provided below:

Checklists for bird species

• Checklist for bird species (last updated: 13.06.2024)

• Summary of changes in nomenclature and taxonomy since the previous (2013 - 2018) version of the Article 12 checklist (last updated: 30.06.2023)

List of species with international or multilateral plans

• List of species with international or multilateral plans with an indication of the type of the plan including objectives to be considered in the assessments under fields 10.3 and 10.4 (last updated: 18.09.2023)

Lists of pressures and threats and of conservation measures

• List of pressures and threats for the period 2019-2024 (last updated 24/05 /2023)

• List of pressures and threats for the period 2019-2024 with indicative crosslinks to WFD and MSFD (last updated 05/02/2024)

• List of conservation measures for the period 2019-2024 v1.1 (last updated 26/01/2024)

Examples of reporting pressures and threats and conservation measures

• Example of reporting pressures for Tetrao Urogalus in FI

The spatial grids for the habitats and species distribution

• The European (ETRS) grids for individual Member States (10x10km & 1x1km)(look at year 2013)

Codelists

The lists of codes to be used for the structured information in the report formats (reporting tool and xml schemas) are available via EEA Data Dictionaries webpage.

Tools and data specifications

Webinar on Reportnet 3.0

• Presentation Art. 12 Webinar on Reportnet 3.0 - 28.05.2024

• Recording Art. 12 Webinar on Reportnet 3.0 - 28.05.2024

Technical Reporting Manual

• Reporting Manual for the delivery of Art. 12 on Reportnet 3.0 - December 2024

Technical documents related to reporting datasets

The extended import Excel templates include the reference tables in the last worksheet

• Art. 12 Schema and Validation rules v.2 (last updated 18.12.2024)

• Extended Import template Birds Checklist (last updated 18.12.2024)

• Extended Import template General report (last updated 18.12.2024)

• Extended Import template Birds (last updated 18.12.2024)

• Extended Import template Birds Spatial Information (last updated 18.12.2024)

• Instructions for the use of the Extended import Excel templates (last updated 18.12.2024)

Good practice examples

• Population size and trends (last updated: 05.07.2018)

Past reference portals

• Reference Portal for Art12 reporting period 2008-2012

• Reference Portal for Art12 reporting period 2013-2018