GERMANY · DESIGNATIONS · NATURA 2000
FFH-Gebiete (Natura 2000)
What this layer shows
Sites of Community Importance under the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC. A project that could significantly affect such a site, alone or in combination with other plans and projects, must be assessed for compatibility with the site's conservation objectives before consent (§ 34(1) BNatSchG); if the assessment finds a significant effect, the project may not proceed unless it is exceptionally authorised under § 34(3) for imperative reasons of overriding public interest and in the absence of any reasonable alternative. Projects outside the site may also require assessment. Exceptions must additionally meet the requirements for priority habitats and species and for safeguarding the coherence of Natura 2000 (§ 34(4) and (5)).
Publisher and licence
European Environment Agency · EEA standard re-use policy
© European Environment Agency, EEA standard re-use policy
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu
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This layer is drawn from the European Environment Agency's annual return of what Germany reports, not from a live service of the national body itself. A boundary changed this year appears here when the next return is published.
Facts shown for each feature
Site code · Area (ha) · As of
In these presets
Natura 2000
The Natura 2000 network in Germany: Habitats Directive sites and Special Protection Areas, nationwide, from the harmonised European return. This is the free set the map opens with anywhere in Germany, and the point at which every appropriate assessment under § 34 BNatSchG begins.
Protected areas
Every area-based protection at once: Natura 2000, nature and landscape protection areas, national parks, national natural monuments and biosphere reserves with their three zones, plus the nature parks and Ramsar sites the European return leaves out. The nature parks come per state or from the BfN's national register, the Ramsar sites from some states only.
Data search
Where an ecological consultant or a planning office starts: the protected-site network, the small designations (natural monuments and protected landscape components), the biotopes protected by law, the Annex I habitat types with their critical loads, and the species records. The small designations and biotopes are available where that state publishes them openly.