MALTA · DESIGNATIONS · PROTECTED AREAS
Areas of Ecological Importance and Sites of Scientific Importance
What this layer shows
Areas of Ecological Importance (AEI) and Sites of Scientific Importance (SSI) scheduled by government notice, mostly under the planning law, as Malta reported them to the European Environment Agency. A development application in or next to one is assessed against the protection it gives; the Planning Authority and the Environment and Resources Authority (ERA) are consulted.
Publisher and licence
European Environment Agency (Nationally designated areas) · CC BY 4.0
European Environment Agency (Nationally designated areas), CC BY 4.0
Where the data comes from
ARCGIS · bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu
Merestone asks this service live for the area on screen. Nothing is copied or stored beyond a short cache.
This layer is drawn from the European Environment Agency's annual return of what Malta 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
Register number · Designated · Legal basis · Area (ha) · IUCN category
In these presets
Natura 2000 and protected areas
Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas (Natura 2000), nature reserves, national parks, Special Areas of Conservation of national importance, Areas of Ecological Importance, Sites of Scientific Importance, bird sanctuaries and Ramsar sites, from the European Environment Agency's data. The free starting view. Always check the designating notice.
Planning constraints
Natura 2000, Areas of Ecological Importance, Areas of High Landscape Value, Tree Protection Areas and historic trees, protected beaches and made ground, with the SPED land use designations and the flood hazard areas (these two are waiting for permission). For a first screen of a site.