Over the last few decades there has been an increase in environmental awareness and awareness in Spain, as well as the emergence of regulatory standards for natural resources, their uses and their conservation, which in many cases have emanated from Community legislation. In parallel, the demand for quality technical information about the elements of natural heritage and biodiversity, its state, pressures, uses, impacts and actions for its improvement has multiplied at international and national level. The application of certain instruments-such as environmental impact assessment or strategic environmental assessment-as well as the necessary planning for the protection and management of the territory and the biotic and abiotic elements integrated, requires the availability of the best updated information. The development of new technologies for the storage, management and geographical reference of data has contributed to improving its quality by simplifying and generalizing its use in the information society.

In order for citizens to enjoy the right of a healthy environment, respect and protect it, they must be able to know the value and diversity of their natural heritage. To this end, the necessary mechanisms are established to allow access to the information held by the public authorities in accordance with the provisions of Law 27/2006 of July 18, for which the rights of access to the public authorities are regulated. information, public participation and access to justice in the field of the environment.

Aware of these circumstances, Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, in accordance with Article 45 of the Spanish Constitution, articulates, for the first time in our order, the creation of an instrument for the knowledge of the natural environment in Spain, with a marked generalist character. This is the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, thus giving the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, as provided for in Article 5.2.e) of the law, " the tools to be able to know the state of conservation of the natural heritage and biodiversity and the causes that determine its changes, in order to design the measures to be taken. "

The competition to develop the Spanish Inventory falls, according to Royal Decree 1130/2008, of 4 July, for which the basic organic structure of the Ministry of the Environment, and Rural and Marine Environment, is developed, in the Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy.

The Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, together with the autonomous communities and cities, will encourage the participation of all stakeholders to contribute to the production or development of the Inventory.

The Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, hereinafter the Inventory, consists of three instruments: on the one hand, its basic components such as inventories, catalogues, registers, listings and bases of data; on the other hand a system of indicators that allows us to assess in a synthetic way its state and evolution; and, as a summary of all this, an annual report.

The Inventory is conceived with a holistic character, that is, a whole other than the sum of the parts that compose it. To this end, the components mentioned in the legislative acquis have been identified at international, European or national level. In particular, it includes all those set out in Article 9.2 of Law 42/2007 of 13 December on the natural heritage and biodiversity, some of which are included in its specific legislation, as is the case for information forest regulated by law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes.

The components are grouped together in Ecosystems, Fauna and Flora, Genetic Resources, Natural Resources, Protected Spaces and/or Interest and Negative Effects on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity and other related topics. The mechanisms are established so that in the future those that contribute to the achievement of the objectives of Law 42/2007, of December 13, can be incorporated.

The main characteristics of all components have been described in Annex I, with the priorities for the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment identified in Annex II. This is basic information that identifies the territory or species present in it, to know the situation of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, from a descriptive point of view.

By applying the information technologies currently available, an Integrated Information System for the storage, harmonisation, quality and pooling of information relating to the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

According to Directive 2007 /2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the European Community (INSPIRE) and its standard of incorporation into the Spanish legal order, Law 14/2010, of 5 July, on the infrastructures and services of geographical information in Spain, is created the sectoral node on the natural environment and the biodiversity called Infrastructure of Data Space Natural Space (IDENAT). Information services shall be established at the State level, without prejudice to their interoperability with other similar systems available in other public administrations.

On the other hand, within the Inventory a System of Indicators is integrated, which is inspired by the most relevant international systems in the field: in particular, in the one developed in the framework of the Convention of Biological Diversity, of Rio de Janeiro (June 1992), ratified in 1993 by Spain, and in that prepared by the European Environment Agency. The System of Indicators facilitates a synthesis of the extensive contents of the Spanish Inventory, allowing to generate at any moment information about the state of conservation and use of our natural heritage and our biodiversity.

All of this is plasma, annually, in a report on the State of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, whose presentation to the Sectoral Conference of the Environment means to ensure the cession of its contents to the managing authorities of the territory in Spain.

It is essential that coordination and cooperation between public administrations be included in this regulation to achieve the objectives of the inventory. To this end, the Inventory Committee is created, an organ attached to the State Commission of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

This regulation develops Chapter I of Title I of Law 42/2007 of 13 December 2007 and provides an important impetus for the implementation of the provisions of Article 7 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

In the handling of this royal decree, the autonomous communities and representative entities of the affected sector have been consulted.

The text has also been made available to the public, as provided for in article 16 of Law 27/2006, of July 18.

In its virtue, on the proposal of the Minister of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, with the prior approval of the Minister of the Presidency, in agreement with the Council of State and after deliberation of the Council of Ministers in its Meeting of the day 15 April 2011,

DISPONGO:

CHAPTER I

General provisions

Article 1. Object.

This royal decree regulates the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, developing its content, structure and operation, as established in Chapter I of Title I of Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

Article 2. Definitions.

For the purposes of this royal decree, the definitions contained in Article 3 of Law 42/2007 of 13 December 2007 shall apply. In addition,

following definitions shall apply:

1. Atlas: Referred to taxa and habitats, an instrument that collects its distribution according to some geographical criterion, in addition to other additional information when it is available, as its absolute or relative abundance.

2. Catalogue or List: Public instrument of administrative character in which they are registered, describe and in their case regulate and protect elements elements of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

3. Priority component: The reference for the rest of the components and the basis of national and international statistics and reports produced by the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment.

4. Spatial data: Any that, directly or indirectly, refers to a specific location or geographical area.

5. Indicator: Parameter, or value derived from other parameters, that synthetically expresses the status of one or more elements of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. Provides information and describes the status of a phenomenon with added meaning greater than that directly associated with its own value, so that it can be transmitted to society as a whole, incorporated into decision-making processes and integrated at supranational level.

6. Index: Added or weighted set of parameters or indicators, which in turn can be used as an indicator.

7. Inventory: A technical document containing the distribution, abundance, conservation status and use of one or more terrestrial and marine elements belonging to the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

8. Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity: Public Instrument, where inventories, catalogues, listings and indicators are integrated that collect the distribution, abundance, conservation status and use of the elements terrestrial and marine members of the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, as well as the integrated information system, the generated reports and all other information deemed relevant by the Inventory Committee, to which it refers the first provision of the present royal decree. This inventory shall include the data in the records managed by the competent authority of the Autonomous Communities and Cities.

9. Red List: Technical document containing the standard list of a taxonomic group and in which each species has been assigned the status of conservation status in accordance with the system developed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) or, failing that, for the best information available.

10. Red Book: Red List which includes a sheet containing information on each species.

11. Metadata: Information that describes the data, services, reports, and indicators by making it possible to locate, inventory, and use them.

12. Information system: A set of computerised elements according to a structured storage, which allows access, relationships between its elements, pooling and interoperability with other systems.

13. Reference values: Referred to indicators, which, using the best scientific and technical knowledge available for their accuracy, make it possible to consider that the elements of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity are in a state of conservation or appropriate use, not compromising their survival or their future sustainable use.

14. Threshold: Referred to an indicator, and using the best scientific and technical knowledge available for accuracy, is the limit value, which must not be exceeded in a given period to ensure that the state of conservation or use The sustainable element of the Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity to which the indicator refers is the appropriate one.

15. Competent authority: Competent body of each Autonomous Community or city, except in cases where it expressly refers to the General Administration of the State or some of its organs.

Article 3. Purpose and territorial scope.

1. The purpose of this royal decree is to create the instrument that allows to have an objective, reliable and comparable information, as updated as possible, in the entire territorial area, that allows to identify and to know the Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity, its status and trends, all for:

a) Fundamental to the elaboration and implementation of policies and actions in the field of conservation, management and sustainable use.

b) Spread the values of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity to society as a whole.

c) Contribute as a source of information to meet the international commitments entered into by the Spanish State.

2. Its territorial scope comprises the national territory and the marine waters under national sovereignty or jurisdiction, including the exclusive economic zone and the continental shelf.

Article 4. Principles.

The Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity will be governed by the following principles:

(a) Dissemination: The information must be made available to the public, facilitating their search, visualization and downloading, using the technological supports that best allow their dissemination and availability; established by Law 27/2006 of 18 July on the rights of access to information, public participation and access to justice in the field of the environment.

(b) Technical Rigor: All data integrated into the Inventory shall be collected in accordance with a methodology that ensures, with demonstrable technical scientific validity, harmonisation at national level and, where appropriate, European.

c) Coherence: There should be consistency between the different components of the Inventory, in terms of content, data, and nomenclature.

(d) Interoperability with equivalent systems at European, pan-European or global level; understood as the capacity of information systems, and hence of the procedures to which they support, data sharing and enable the exchange of information and knowledge between them.

CHAPTER II

Inventory Structure and Content

Article 5. Instruments of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

For the purposes of this royal decree, the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity has the following instruments:

a) Components to be managed in an integrated information system.

b) Indicators that allow your main features to be synthetically analyzed.

c) Annual report on the state and evolution of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

Article 6. Components of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

1. The Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity shall include at least components such as maps, inventories, lists or catalogues for which information is collected on the subjects listed below. characteristics are described in Annex I, with particular attention to the elements of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity which require specific conservation measures or have been declared of Community interest:

a) Ecosystems: They will include the instruments that describe the communities of living beings whose vital processes are related to each other and are developed according to the physical factors of the same environment.

b) Fauna and Flora: They will include the instruments that describe the distribution, abundance, and conservation status of marine and terrestrial biodiversity.

c) Genetic resources: They will collect information that aims to preserve the actual or potential genetic material.

(d) Natural resources: These include instruments that collect information about the knowledge, use and use of natural heritage and biodiversity.

e) Protected or interest spaces: Zones designated or managed within an international, national or regional legislative framework for the achievement of specific conservation objectives.

f) Negative Effects on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity: Instruments that collect information on risks to natural heritage and biodiversity are included.

2. Technical and administrative documentation related to the conservation and use of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, such as: legislative aspects; planning and management; institutions, bodies and other entities; for public use, education, communication and disclosure; financial and investment and administrative procedures for activities in Natural Heritage.

Article 7. Nature Data Bank.

1. An integrated information system, called the Nature Data Bank, is created, which has the functions of harmonization, analysis and dissemination of the information contained in the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity.

2. The inventory components available in the information system shall be in accordance with quality criteria defined for each component and, in general terms:

(a) They must be available within the territorial scope defined in this Inventory; without prejudice to the fact that they may be supplemented or supplemented, in turn, by other partial elements developed for territorial areas concrete. To this end, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment will coordinate with the rest of the General Administration of the State and with the autonomous administrations competent in the matter, so that the instruments already existing in their respective fields of competence, they can be properly integrated into the Inventory.

b) The update of the information will be permanent, taking into account the nature of each component.

(c) Include any alphanumeric, multimedia, documentary, geographical or any type of information provided that it is in electronic form.

(d) The metadata shall be created and kept up to date in accordance with Commission Regulation No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007 /2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards to metadata.

e) With a view to performing a terminological normalization to improve access and communication among the users of the Inventory, unique data dictionaries that build a controlled and structured vocabulary will be used. formally, formed by terms that keep each other semantic and generic (equivalence, hierarchical and associative) relationships as a domain in which a numeric identifier, a textual name, and an optional one, will be used description or definition.

3. In order to enable coordinated work among all sources of information, a data model is established for each component that allows the harmonisation of information, simplification of compilation, and easy access and exploitation. At least it will contain:

a) Identification: naming and unique encoding.

b) Geographical location: according to the provisions of Royal Decree 1071/2007 of 27 July 2007, which regulates the geodetic system of official reference in Spain.

(c) Administrative location: in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 105/2007 of 1 February 2007 amending the Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS).

d) Source of information: includes unique and unambiguous identification of the data source.

4. The Information System of the Spanish Inventory of Heritage and Biodiversity will be managed by the Directorate General of Natural Environment and Forestry Policy of the Ministry of Environment, and Rural and Marine Environment, in coordination with the communities. (a) they shall ensure the objectivity, reliability and consistency of their components.

5. The Space Data Infrastructure of the Natural Environment (IDENAT), a sectoral node of the Geographic Information Infrastructure of Spain, is created, in which all the geographical information of the Inventory of Natural and Natural Heritage is integrated. Biodiversity. According to Royal Decree 1545/2007 of 23 November, which regulates the National Cartographic System, IDENAT integrates data, metadata, services and geographic information on the natural environment through the Internet. biodiversity that is produced in Spain, making it easier for all potential users to locate, identify, select and access such resources, integrating the IDE nodes of the geographic information producers of this theme.

This node will be accessible from the portal of the Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, from the Geoportal of the Spanish Space Data Infrastructure (IDEE) and from the Geoportal of the Data Infrastructure Space of the General Administration of the State.

The information contained in IDENAT shall be governed by the provisions of Law 14/2010 of 5 July on the infrastructure and geographical information services in Spain.

6. For the purposes of this Article, the records of the autonomous communities and cities shall be computerised and their management system shall, in any event, permit the high, low and minor changes to be made to them immediate reflex in the IDENAT. Autonomous communities and cities shall have computer access to the IDENAT for the information they are responsible for, without prejudice to the limits that are legally appropriate for the protection of personal data.

Article 8. System of Indicators.

1. In compliance with the provisions of article 10 of Law 42/2007, of December 13, it is established, as part of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, a System of Indicators for the purpose of knowing the State, variations and trends of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. The indicators to be integrated into this system shall be those indices, descriptive variables or statistical data deemed to be most appropriate, according to the typology of Annex IV.

2. The indicators that form part of the System will be identified and clearly defined by the Directorate General of Natural Environment and Forestry Policy, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities and other organs of the General Administration of State. The System of Indicators will be approved by the State Commission of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, which acts assisted by the Committee of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity that is created in the additional provision first, as well as future modifications, inclusions and exclusions that may take place. This system will be composed of a set of indicators that will respond to the requirements acquired by the Spanish State in the international conventions ratified and in European regulations, and which will conform to its core core.

3. The indicators must show in a simple and direct way relevant information about the distribution, abundance, conservation status, population dynamics or the use of the elements of the Natural Heritage and the Spanish Biodiversity. as any other information deemed necessary. They will be articulated in such a way that information can be easily transmitted to the whole of society and incorporated into the decision-making process.

4. For each indicator, reference values and specific thresholds shall be defined, where possible, according to the best available knowledge. This will promote predictive model studies.

5. For both the definition and the calculation of the System indicators, the information integrated in the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, which can be complemented with the one that I know, will be used. Consider necessary. In any event, they shall be calculated for the territorial scope of the State and, where the nature of the data so permits, for the territory of the Autonomous Communities.

6. The Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy will calculate and make public the values of the System indicators.

7. The most significant indicators of the System will be incorporated into the Inventory of Statistics Operations of the Ministry of Environment, and Rural and Marine Environment and, to the National Statistical Plan.

Article 9. Report on the state of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

1. The Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment will develop, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities, and, where appropriate, other organs of General Administration of the State the Report on the State of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, on an annual basis.

2. The report will be based on data integrated into the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, and the System of Indicators. However, if deemed appropriate, it may include information from other sources, which must have the same technical rigour as the one already available in the Inventory.

3. The report will collect and analyze information on the state and trends of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity in the Spanish territory and on its most relevant changes and will contain a comprehensive and joint assessment of the results of the existing policies and instruments for the conservation and sustainable use of elements of natural heritage and biodiversity, for their final transmission to society.

4. Recommendations may be included in the report in order to facilitate the adoption of measures for the recovery of natural heritage and biodiversity by the competent authorities, in particular when the values of the indicators are transferred. thresholds defined.

5. With regard to its content, the report shall include at least the following paragraphs:

a) Objectives and temporal and territorial scope.

b) Elements and sources used for reporting.

c) State of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. A summary of these reports will be included in the implementation of the obligations acquired by the Spanish State in the international conventions ratified and in European legislation.

d) Existing policies and instruments for the conservation and sustainable use of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

e) Values obtained from the annual application of the System of Indicators.

f) Analysis and interpretation of the results obtained through the System of Indicators for the diagnosis of the state of conservation and use of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. Where possible, more likely prediction of the future evolution of the different elements of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

g) Proposals for actions and recommendations.

6. The annual report will show the situation in relation to previous years. The information will be continuously integrated by the agents involved, so that before the end of the first quarter of the year, the necessary information referred to the previous year is available.

7. Once elaborated, the report will be presented to the State Council for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, to the State Commission for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, and to the Sectoral Conference on the Environment, before becoming public.

Article 10. Supranational integration.

The information contained in the Inventory will be used for the fulfilment of the information requirements set out in the international commitments entered into by Spain, being forwarded, where appropriate, to the institutions supra-national or international case through the established channels.

CHAPTER III

Managing the Inventory

Article 11. Elaboration of the Inventory.

1. The Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment, through the Directorate General of Natural Environment and Forestry Policy, with the participation of the autonomous communities and the collaboration of the institutions and organizations of character scientist, prepare and keep the Inventory up to date.

2. Cooperation agreements may be concluded between the various bodies of the public authorities and may be linked to the Natural Heritage Fund or other existing sources of funding.

Article 12. Sources of information and their public nature.

1. The bodies responsible for the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity of the Autonomous Communities and the other public administrations shall provide, where possible through the telematic means, the information they may maintain. updated the Inventory. Such information shall be of a public information in accordance with the provisions of Law 27/2006 of 18 July, taking into account the exceptions listed in Article 13 thereof, in particular those relating to the preservation of certain elements particularly sensitive natural.

2. In addition to the official information provided by the public administrations, mechanisms will be created to provide and value information from other sources, which will not be official in nature and may be included in the Spanish Inventory of the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity if its scientific-technical reliability is proven by the protocols to be established. These sources may be:

a) Organizations of a scientific nature, in the area of knowledge in which they play their activity, which will be considered as collaborating entities of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

b) Inventory Volunteers, included in the Directory of Volunteers of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity composed of all those who collaborate with their contributions, and which is created by the present royal decree. The rules governing the directory will be approved by the Natural Heritage and Biodiversity Inventory Committee.

c) Contributions of natural or legal persons.

3. The Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy, prior to the report of the State Commission for Heritage and Biodiversity, will establish the procedure to ensure compliance with the criteria set out in paragraph 2 according to the criteria on the legality, reliability or sensitive nature of the information provided. It shall be ensured, at least:

(a) The strict compliance, by the persons or institutions that provide information, of the existing legislation, state or regional, in the field of conservation of nature, in particular in the fact of obtaining is.

b) A control mechanism that allows you to remove erroneous information or limit access to the system to low-reliability informers.

(c) The immediate transfer of the information collected, prior to its public exposure, to the authorities which have jurisdiction in the subject matter of the information, except in cases where such information could be determined, and in particular:

1. º When related to endangered species.

2. º When you reveal a situation that might be a violation or offense.

3. º When you could refer to issues that are the subject of litigation in the civil order.

d) Intellectual property rights or artistic production.

e) Free citizen access to the information that is published in the public, properly informing the user of the legality, reliability and scope of the information provided.

f) Avoidance of deliberate approach or inconvenience to threatened species of fauna, especially during critical periods of their life cycle.

Additional disposition first. Creation of the Spanish Inventory Committee for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

1. The Committee of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity is created as an organ of coordination between Administrations, with powers of report and proposal, attached to the State Commission for Natural Heritage and the Biodiversity, in a manner compatible with the functions of the other existing specific Committees, and which will have the following functions:

a) To analyze technically and to elevate the State Commission for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity the proposals on the subjects that thematically correspond to or are specifically assigned to it by that one.

b) Propose to the State Commission for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity inclusions, exclusions and modifications concerning the content of the Inventory, for subsequent approval by the Sectoral Conference of the Middle Environment and publication in the Official State Gazette.

c) Establish procedures for the development and operation of the Inventory. In particular, the technical rules governing each component, in accordance with the principles set out in Article 4.

d) Establish the rules of operation of the Directory of Volunteers of the Spanish Inventory of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity referred to in Article 12.2.b.

e) Set your operating rules.

2. The Committee shall be composed of a representative of each Autonomous Community and of the Cities of Ceuta and Melilla, two representatives of the Ministry of Science and Innovation, a representative of the Ministry of Public Works, appointed by the Secretaries of State or Secretaries-General responsible for the matter, and four representatives of the MARM, one of whom will exercise the presidency, appointed by the Secretary of State for Climate Change. The Secretariat of the Committee shall be performed by an official of the Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy, who shall act with a voice and without a vote.

The Committee will be part of the EIONET Network (European Environment Information and Observation Network) of the European Environment Agency, as an interest group, Principal Component Component, linked to the National Centre of Reference in the field of biodiversity and mountains of that Network.

3. The legal status of the Spanish Inventory Committee for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity is set out in Chapter II of Title II of Law 30/1992 of 26 November 1992 on the Legal Regime of the General Administration and the Common Administrative Procedure.

Additional provision second. Progressive integration of the instruments of the Inventory.

1. The priority components listed in Annex II shall be integrated into the Inventory after the entry into force of this Royal Decree. Those described in Annex III, considered essential for the inventory, shall be incorporated, at the latest, in 2 years from the entry into force of this royal decree, except for those for which Law 42/2007 of 13 December provides for a development regulatory, which will do so within a period of one year from the entry into force of the same.

In relation to the components listed in Article 6.2, the Spanish Inventory Committee for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity will determine which will be included as mandatory and in what time.

2. The core of the System of Indicators will be identified in one year from the entry into force of this royal decree.

Additional provision third. Interoperability with e-science platforms.

The Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment and the Ministry of Science and Innovation will coordinate in order to make shared the knowledge infrastructures promoted by both, guaranteeing cooperation Scientific-technical in the field of conservation and sustainable use of natural heritage and biodiversity.

Final disposition first. Competence title.

This royal decree has the character of basic environmental protection legislation, in accordance with the provisions of Article 149.1.23. of the Constitution.

Final disposition second. Development and application faculty.

1. The Minister of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment are empowered to adopt, in the field of their powers, the necessary provisions and measures for the development and implementation of the provisions of this royal decree, and in particular to approve, by order, on a proposal from the Committee set out in the first provision, technical protocols to ensure the coordination and operation of the Inventory in the State as a whole.

2. The Minister for the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment are also empowered to amend by ministerial order the annexes to this royal decree on a proposal from the Committee established in the first provision.

Final disposition third. Entry into force.

This royal decree will enter into force on the day following its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Dado en Madrid, el 20 de abril de 2011.

JOHN CARLOS R.

The Minister for the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment,

ROSA AGUILAR RIVERO

ANNEX I

DESCRIPTION OF INVENTORY COMPONENTS

1. Ecosystems

1.a Spanish Catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance

Content: It will include the listing of the endangered habitats, defined in accordance with Articles 24, 25 and 26 of Law 42/2007, of December 13, and the regulation that will develop the Catalogue. The information accompanying the catalogued habitats shall include the information referred to in that legislation, in the light of at least:

Brief description of its composition, structure, and/or functions.

Potential and real distribution in Spain.

Status of conservation and trends.

Threats you face.

Conservation measures taken to slow down your recession and proposal for other appropriate measures.

Protected and effectively managed surface.

Proposal of the surface that should be included in some management instrument or protection figure.

Developed Conservation and Restoration Strategies, as well as plans or management tools adopted in relation to habitat.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, Articles 24, 25 and 26.

Other relevant information: The regulations for the development of the Spanish Catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance will determine the categories, the operation of the Catalogue, cataloging, uncataloguing and change of categories. It also refers to the Conservation Strategies, and will define what is to be understood by "adequate surface" according to Article 25.a) of Law 42/2007, of December 13.

The monitoring system for the Spanish Inventory of Land Habitats and the Marine Habitats Inventory should facilitate the updating of the information relating to the area and the conservation status of the habitats included. in the Catalog.

1.b Spanish Inventory of Wetlands

Content: Includes information on the wetlands according to Royal Decree 435/2004, of March 12, which regulates the National Inventory of Wetlands (INZH).

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Royal Decree 435/2004 of March 12, which regulates the National Inventory of Wetlands.

Other relevant information: Includes information on the conservation status according to the typologies defined in the INZH Information Sheet of Annex II to Royal Decree 435/2004, of March 12.

1.c Spanish Land Habitat Inventory (*)

Content: Includes information on the types of habitats present in Spain, natural and semi-natural, in particular those declared of Community interest.

Contains the following elements:

Pattern list of the types of terrestrial habitats present in Spain.

Spatial distribution of terrestrial habitat types in Spain.

A system for tracking habitat types.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update periodicity: At least ten-year for the entire Spanish territory, without prejudice to a continuous update for certain types of habitat due to their own dynamics or the interest of their conservation.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, Article 9.

Other relevant information: The conservation status of each habitat type or the systems that integrate them using the most appropriate scientific methodologies will be assessed. These shall be compatible with the assessment systems developed for the implementation of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.

The data and information contained in the inventory will serve as a starting point for the proposal, cataloging, change of category or uncataloging of the types of habitat to be included in the Spanish Catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance.

1.d Spanish Inventory of Marine Habitats (*)

Content: Includes updated information on the types of marine habitats present in Spain.

It will contain the following elements:

Pattern list of marine habitat types present in Spain.

Hierarchical classification of marine habitat types, relating to the different classifications existing (Annex I of Law 42/2007, December 13, International Directives and Conventions).

Spatial distribution of marine habitat types in Spain.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update periodicity: At least ten-year for the entire Spanish territory, without prejudice to a permanent update for certain types of habitat.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: The conservation status of each habitat type will be assessed using the most appropriate scientific methodologies. These shall be compatible with the assessment systems developed for the implementation of Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora.

This assessment, which should be extended to all marine habitats in Spain, should permit the state of conservation of each habitat type to be known at different territorial scales to define priorities for conservation.

The Spanish inventory of habitat types will contain the quantification of the absolute abundance of each habitat-in terms of surface-and its relative abundance referred to different territorial units, depending on the scale treated.

The data and information contained in the inventory will serve as a starting point for the proposal, cataloging, change of category or uncataloging of the types of habitat to be included in the Spanish Catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance.

1.e Landscape Inventory

Content: Characterization of Spanish landscapes by identifying the taxonomy of Spanish landscapes by aggregation at three levels: Landscape units (structure, organization and dynamics), landscape types (elements (a), and associations of types of landscapes (general and differential features), based on their identification and assessment from a territorial perspective.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: European Council of Europe Landscape Convention (Florence, 20 /X/2000) ratified by Spain by means of the Instrument published in the BOE of 5 of 2008, Article 6.

Other relevant information: Mapping, catalogues or landscape maps produced by the Autonomous Communities.

Characterization of the Landscapes of Spain, carried out by the Ministry of the Environment (today Ministry of the Environment, and the Rural and Marine Environment) and the Autonomous University of Madrid. (2003).

1.f Forest Map of Spain

Content: The Forest Map of Spain is the basic forest mapping at the state level, of the situation of the forest masses.

Contains the following elements:

Pattern list of forest species.

Distribution of mainly forest land uses.

Identification and distribution of major tree species, including parameters such as their state of development and occupation.

Information of untree formations.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update periodicity: At least ten-year for the entire Spanish territory (as per art. 28.6 of Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes), without prejudice to update for the main uses of the soil.

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes, article 28.1, concerning the Spanish Forestry Statistics.

Other relevant information: It constitutes the base mapping of the National Forest Inventory.

It has a history string:

Forest map of Spain at 1:400,000 scale (1966).

Forest map of Spain at 1:200,000 scale (1986-1998).

Spanish Forest Map at 1:50,000 Scale (1998-2007).

2. Fauna and Flora

2.a Spanish Land Species Inventory (*)

Content: Collect the distribution, abundance and conservation status of the Spanish terrestrial fauna and flora. It considers, at least, the following groups: vertebrates, invertebrates, vascular flora and non-vascular flora. It contains the following elements:

Pattern lists by taxonomic groups.

Information of a biological nature, in particular the one that is compiled through projects elaborated at national level, such as Fauna Iberica, Flora Ibérica, Flora Micógica Ibérica and those others that could develop in the future.

Corologic inventory, with distribution atlas, including mapping in as much detail as possible for each taxon at the state level.

The state of conservation of taxa, collected in the Lists and Red Books.

System for monitoring the Spanish fauna and flora, showing at least the population trends and the evolution of the distribution and the conservation status.

Structure: Alphanumerical database and geo-referenced documentary to UTM grid (at least 10 x 10 Km. or 1 x 1 Km.), without prejudice to the incorporation of vector mapping information.

Update Periodicity: The update of the databases will be continuous. The Atlas shall be updated at least every 10 years. Red Books and Lists and taxonomic Listings will be reviewed at least every 5 years. The monitoring system for the Spanish terrestrial fauna and flora will be continuously updated.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: The conservation status will be determined through the most up-to-date scientific knowledge, using the most appropriate methodologies and, in particular, the IUCN proposals.

The data and information contained in the inventory will serve as a starting point for the proposal, cataloging, change of category or uncataloging of the taxa to include in the List of Wild Species in Regime of Special Protection and the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, as well as for the Invasive Alien Species Catalogue.

The information available in the data bank of the Office of Migratory Species of the Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy will be available, understanding the system of illage with common reference and, if necessary, other Spanish remits accepted by EURO (European Union for Bird Ringing).

2.b Spanish Inventory of Marine Species (*)

Content: Collect the distribution, abundance and conservation status of Spanish fauna and flora. At least the following marine groups shall be considered: mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, invertebrates and flora. The inventory will contain the following items:

Pattern lists by taxonomic groups of flora and wildlife present in Spanish waters.

Corologic inventory of all taxonomic groups, collected in a database and in the different distribution atlas.

Status of taxa conservation by taxonomic groups, contained in a database, and in Red Lists and Red Books.

Structure: Alphanumerical information and georerefered documentary to UTM grid.

The accuracy of the distribution must be at least 10 x 10 km. For threatened species, those included in the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, those included in the List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime, or those considered to be of interest in the Community or international regulations, the The resolution of the data of the distribution will be as much as possible, having ecological sense, depending on the type of organism and the characteristics of the masses of water in which they inhabit.

Update Periodicity: Every 10 years for the Atlas case; continuous update for the case of Red Books and Lists; every 5 years for taxonomic listings.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: The conservation status will be determined through the most up-to-date scientific knowledge, using the encodings with greater recognition by the international scientific and technical community. In particular, the categories proposed by IUCN will apply. New possibilities should be explored to overcome the difficulties posed by the application of these categories in groups of unstudied marine species (populations and biology). For cetacean species, the information available in the Spanish Cetacean Varings Database (BEVACET) will be taken into account.

The abundance of taxa, given the complexity of the most mobile organisms, will be qualitative (for example, by means of habitat suitability analysis), combining it as much as possible with an abundance of abundance. In any case, the comparison of the data and the analysis of the temporal evolution should be made possible.

The data and information contained in the inventory will serve as a starting point for the proposal, cataloging, change of category or uncataloging of the taxa to include in the List of Wild Species in Regime of Special Protection and the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species, as well as for the Invasive Alien Species Catalogue.

In the case of vulnerable or threatened species, non-intrusive or destructive sampling systems shall be used as far as possible to monitor their conservation status.

2.c List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Wild Species

Content: Comprises the List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime (LESPE), which includes wild species that meet the criteria of Article 53.1. and 55.1. of Law 42/2007, 13 of December, and the second, the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species (CEA), contained in the previous one, which includes exclusively the species that meet the criteria of Article 55.1. of the aforementioned Law.

The species included in the Spanish Catalogue will be in one of the two categories of threat, endangered or vulnerable, defined by article 55.1. of the Law, when, on the basis of the information available, they comply one of the classification criteria approved by the State Commission of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

Structure: Alphanumerical database and georereferenced documentary to UTM grid (at least 10 x 10 Km. or 1 x 1 Km.).

Update Periodicity: The taxonomic listing of the species that make up the LESPE will be updated when applicable according to their regulations.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: Species included in the Wild Species Listing in Special Protection Regime will be subject to specific monitoring in order to carry out a periodic assessment of their status conservation. Monitoring will focus on the evolution of the range of species and the conservation status of their populations.

The evaluation of the conservation status will be carried out by the Directorate-General for Natural Environment and Forestry Policy based on the information provided by the autonomous communities and their own information with special attention. reference to the catch or collection statistics, accidental deaths and assessment of their impact on the viability of the species.

3. Genetic resources

3.a Spanish Inventory of Biological and Genetic Material Banks Referred to Wild Species

Content: The Spanish Inventory of Biological and Genetic Material Banks referred to Wild Species is established as an informative network of the following types of content:

List of official centers that house biological and genetic material, both dependent on Autonomous Communities and managed through the General Administration.

Catalogue and inventory of the existing genetic and biological material in each Bank of official material.

Listing of taxa for which biological and genetic material exists in the various official banks, with reference to the type, quantity and origin of the stored samples.

The integration of biological and genetic material of native taxa of endangered wild flora and fauna is a priority, taking as a reference the List of Species in Special Protection Regime and the Spanish catalogue of Threatened Species. Within this group of species, special attention will be given to the reserve of genetic and biological material for endemic species and subspecies at different regional or state levels.

Structure: Database registered with at least information about the three scopes mentioned in the previous point.

Update periodicity: Continuous, to be supplied at least 5 years by the Autonomous Communities at least 5 years.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, in its article 60.

Other relevant information: The information contained in the Inventory of Banks of Genetic and Biological Material will be incorporated into the evaluation for the development of conservation programs ex situ of threatened species. It will also be a reference in the process of implementation of these programs as a priority, based on the established by official groups or experts consulted, under the Royal Decree of XX/2010 for the development of the List of Species Wild in Special Protection Regime and the Spanish Catalogue of Threatened Species.

3.b Spanish Inventory of Zoological Parks

Content: The Spanish Inventory of Zoological Parks contains general data of the zoos approved and registered by the Autonomous Communities, their animal collections and the conservation programs ex situ that they develop.

Definition of Zoo: Article 2 of Law 31/2003 of 27 October on the conservation of wild fauna in zoos.

Structure: Alphanumerical database and georereferenced documentary with point geometry.

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Law 31/2003 of 27 October on the conservation of wild fauna in zoos, Article 9 and 10.

Other relevant information: Quantification:

Number of zoos.

Number of species and specimens.

Number of ex situ conservation programs.

3.c Forest Genetic Resources

Content: Base Materials Catalog: collects information on the approved base materials for obtaining the different reproductive materials.

National genetic evaluation trial network:

List of available trials for genetic evaluation of base and reproduction materials.

Entities responsible for the trials.

Available information for each trial.

Forest Genetic Resource Conservation Unit Network:

List of storage units.

Descriptive data for each unit.

List of threatened populations.

Conservation status inventory.

Responsible entities.

Available information for each drive.

Structure: Mapping information with polygon geometry, in default, point geometry will be available.

Data Model for the Base Materials Catalogue shall be based on the provisions set out in Annexes II, III, IV, V and X to Royal Decree 289/2003 of 7 March on the marketing of forest reproductive material.

Update Periodicity: Continues, for the Base Materials Catalog.

Annual, for the National Genetic Assessment Network and the Forest Genetic Resource Conservation Unit Network.

Legal framework: Royal Decree 289/2003 of 7 March 2003 on the marketing of forest reproductive material, Article 7.

Other relevant information: National Catalogue Base Materials: In relation to the use of the component, the objective is to give information to the autonomous communities, seed producers or any other interested in the populations, plantations and clones of which the forest reproductive material is obtained.

National Genetic Evaluation Test Network: The data and information contained in this database will serve as a starting point for cataloging qualified and controlled categories of base materials. recommendations for the use of reproductive material and for the analysis of forest genetic diversity of forest species.

Network of Forest Genetic Resource Conservation Units: The data and information contained in this database will serve as a starting point for the development of the Spanish Strategy for the Conservation of Genetic Resources. Forestry and the European programme EUFORGEN. The data may also be used for the development of indicators to be included in the national system of indicators, and for monitoring of forest genetic resources.

4. Natural resources

4.a Spanish Inventory of Hunting and Fishing

Content: Contains information pertaining to cinegitic and fish activity, in particular:

Population levels of the cynetic and fish species with special attention to the migrators.

Number of hunting and fishing licenses issued and in force.

Number of catches, weight and economic value by species, province and year.

Provincial statistics of loose and repopulations of indigenous and exotic species of species.

Provincial statistics for indigenous and exotic fish stocks.

Number of cinetic farms and fish farms per municipal term and year.

Production by species on blackfarms and fish farms for repopulations.

Surface and typology of the province's scientific grounds.

Analysis of water bodies with fish farming (typology, surface, length).

Traffic accident statistics caused by hunting species.

Statistics of damage to agriculture and animal husbandry by species of blacklisted species.

Hunt Trophies: Score, species by province and year.

Structure: Alphanumerical information georeferenced to the province.

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. Art. 9.2.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

4.b Spanish Inventory of Traditional Knowledge

Content: Traditional knowledge, as well as its associated cultural elements or remains, relating to:

Biodiversity and natural heritage.

Geodiversity or the use of mineral resources (geological sites used for festivals, folk traditions, or legends ' origin, as well as artisanal mines and quarries, with their annexed constructions, such as ovens, profit establishments, warehouses, etc.).

They should be relevant for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and geodiversity, with particular attention to ethnobotanic.

Structure: Narrative description and, where possible, cartographic information with polygonal geometry (distribution of the natural element-taxon or ecosystem or of the human population that manages or retains that knowledge) points (elements or debris) and associated alphanumeric database.

Update Periodicity: Decennial.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of 13 December, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, Article 9.2 and Article 70.

Other relevant information: The degree of conservation and vulnerability of traditional knowledge will be assessed. The criteria for this assessment may consider the level of use that is made of the knowledge, estimation of the population size that uses it or benefits from it and the presence of ethnic traits in it.

4.c National Forest Inventory (*)

Content: The National Forest Inventory provides information, at the provincial and national level, through a series of indicators of the most characteristic elements of forest systems with a methodology and common features for the entire Spanish territory.

Contains the following, inventory scopes:

Physical-Natural, encompasses the significant elements of the biotope and biocenosis.

Risks.

Technician, reports selvicultural aspects.

Structural infrastructure, provides data on vials and equipment.

Institutional, reports on different property regimes, protection and forest management.

Biodiversity, studies the main biodiversity indicators applicable to different Spanish biogeographical regions.

Economic assessment, expresses in euros the value of the goods and services produced by the mountains.

Inventory of singular trees.

The carbon sink effect of the forest masses.

It also includes three important chapters: Comparations between inventories, indicators of sustainable management and evolution of the forest landscape.

Structure: Mapping information, with points geometry and associated alphanumeric database, obtained from the apet of plots located at the UTM mesh junction with forest teselas.

Update periodicity: At least ten-year for the entire Spanish territory (as per art. 28.6 of Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes).

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes, article 28.1 concerning the Spanish Forestry Statistics.

Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

Provides relevant information for use in:

Statistical knowledge of the surfaces and stocks of Spanish mountains.

Evolution of Spanish mountains by comparison of inventories.

Carbon estimation set in forest ecosystems.

Tracking singular trees, through a specific inventory.

4.d LUCDEME Soil Map

Content: Provides detailed knowledge of the morphological, analytical, and geographic distribution characteristics of soils, and are described in detail in a memory associated with each map.

The main variables considered are: geology, relief, climate and vegetation (series, uses, ...).

The most relevant information is:

Macromorphological description of representative profile of soil types.

Analytical features, Sales content, absorption ratio.

Geographic distribution of soils.

Classification according to the FAO-UNESCO system.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and alphanumeric database and associated documentary.

Update Periodicity: Not intended.

Legal framework: National Action Programme against Desertification, PAND (Order ARM/ 2444/2008 of 12 August) under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

Other relevant information: Strategic tool for the planning and management of the territory and uses of the soil in general, and of actions of restoration or rehabilitation of areas affected by desertification in particular.

4.e) Other components of the Spanish Forestry Statistics (*)

Content: The information generated by the Spanish Forestry Statistics that is not included in other components of the Inventory is included in this component. Among others:

Wood forest exploitation by species, ownership of the forests and the destination of the wood.

Non-timber forest exploitation by the ownership of the mountains.

Production of Forest Material of Reproduction by Species of the Regulated in Royal Decree 289/2003, of March 7, by category and other productions of MFR not regulated by the Royal Decree referred to.

Forest surface information with planning, management and surface area with certified Sustainable Forest Management.

Forest investments: Reafforestation, selviculture treatments, and other improvements in the forest environment.

Forestry Industry.

Social Perception of Mounts.

Structure: Alphanumerical information georeferenced to province. It may contain vector mapping information.

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of mounts, article 28.

Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity. Art. 9.2.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

5. Protected and/or interest spaces

5.a Hydraulic Public Domain

Content: Includes hydraulic public domain assets. (According to the provisions of Title I of the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2001 of 20 July, approving the recast of the Water Law and Title I of RD 849/1986 of 11 April, approving the Public Domain Regulation Hydraulic which develops the preliminary titles, I, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of the previous standard).

Structure: Mapping information, with line geometry and polygons.

Update Periodicity: Update every six years.

Legal Framework: Royal Legislative Decree 1/2001 of 20 July, approving the recast text of the Water Law.

Royal Decree 849/1986, of 11 April, approving the Regulation of the Public Hydraulic Domain that develops the preliminary titles, I, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of the recast text of the Law of Waters, approved by the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2001 of 20 July.

Other relevant information: consideration will be given to the planning and management of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

5.b Public-Terrestrial Public Domain

Content: Includes state land-land public domain goods (according to Articles 3, 4 and 5 of Law 22/1998, of June 28, of Costas).

Structure: Mapping information, with line geometry and polygons.

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Law 22/1988, of 28 July, of Costas and Royal Decree 1471/1989, of 1 December, for which the General Regulation for the Development and Enforcement of the Law is adopted.

Other relevant information: consideration will be given to the planning and management of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

5.c Inventory of Protected Natural Spaces, Natura 2000 Network and Protected Areas by International Instruments (*)

Content: You will contain the following items:

Full inventory of protected natural spaces designated in Spain by the competent public administrations, both nationally and autonomously, in accordance with Law 42/2007, of December 13 (Articles 27 to 34, 36 and 40) and with the corresponding autonomic legislation.

Inventory of the set of sites that make up the Natura 2000 Network: Areas of Special Protection for Birds, Places of Community Importance and Special Areas of Conservation (Law 42, 2007, of 13 December: Articles 41 to 44; Royal Decree 1997/1995, of 7 December: Articles 3 to 5).

Inventory of natural spaces protected by international instruments (Law 42/2007, of 13 December: art. 49).

Structure: Alphanumerical and cartographic information referred to polygons.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, Article 50.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

5.d Spanish Inventory of Places of Geological Interest

Content: Places of interest, for their unique or representative character, for the study and interpretation of the origin and evolution of the great Spanish geological domains, including the processes that have shaped them, the climates of the past and its paleobiological evolution:

Iberian Massif.

Pyrenean Ranges and Vasco-Cantabrian Basin.

Betica and Balearic Ranges.

Iberica and Costero-Catalana mountain ranges.

Cenozoic basins.

Canary and the peninsular volcanoic vulcanism.

These large domains encompass the geological formations and contexts of Annex VIII of Law 42/2007, of December 13.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Update Periodicity: Decennial.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 9.2.

Other relevant information: The conservation status of the site will be determined from the transformations it has been subjected to. The following possibilities will be established in a generic way:

Favorable: The trait in question is well preserved.

Favorable but with alterations: It does not occur in its natural state, but this does not affect the value or interest of the element in a determining way.

Altered: Various impairments have altered their conservation status, which partially affects the value or interest of the trait.

Degraded: The trait shows important alterations even though it retains some value or interest.

Heavily Degraded: Implies the practice of destroying the trait without the possibility of restoring.

An assessment will also be made about the vulnerability and protection of the site.

Base for the establishment of a network of sites for scientific use and possible educational or recreational use.

5.e Spanish Inventory of Forest Heritage. Public Utility Mounts Catalog (*)

Content: Relations of mountains according to the typology of their ownership, as defined in law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes.

Include:

A) Public mountains:

A. I demanial public mountains:

A. I. 1 Demanial public mountains declared as Public Utility.

A. I. 2 Communal demanial public mountains (at least the largest of 10 hectares).

A. I. 3 Demanial public mountains affected by public use or service (at least the largest of 10 hectares).

A. II Public heritage forests (at least the largest of 10 hectares).

B) Private mountains (at least the over 150 hectares).

B. I Mountains of private individuals and companies under ordinary rules.

B. II Mountains of communities and societies of neighbours (pro indiviso).

C) Neighborhood mountains in common hand.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and alphanumeric and associated documentary database for each of the types of mounts.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes.

Other relevant information: Instrument for the identification and identification of the legal status of the forest area.

For the conservation of the mountains includes:

Enrollment in public records of protective mounts and mounts with other special protection figures.

Deslindes and amojonations.

Demanial disaffection and public utility prevalences.

Levies and occupations.

Surface of each type of mount.

It has a history string:

Public Utility Mountains Catalog.

Register of Protective Mountains.

Local Entity Assets Inventories.

5.f Livestock Path Network

Content: A set of livestock paths that have been declared by an act of classification.

Structure: Mapping information, with line geometry and alphanumeric database and associated documentary.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Law 3/1995, of March 23, of Cattle Roads.

Other relevant information: Inclusion in the National Livestock Pathways Network and other singular categories according to the autonomic regulations.

Deslindes and amojonations.

Demanial Impairment.

Intrusions.

Quantification of its length and surface.

It will make it possible to determine the location and condition of the livestock routes by the trashumant cattlemen and other private users, as well as public administrations, particularly municipalities.

It has a history string:

Mesta file (until 1836).

File of the General Livestock Association (until 1931).

Fund Documentary Fund.

National Livestock Path Network (since 1995).

5.g High Risk Areas of Fire

Content: High Fire Risk Zones (ZAR) declared by the Autonomous Communities.

Structure: Mapping information with polygons geometry and alphanumeric database and associated documentary.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes.

Royal Decree-Law 11/2005, of July 22, of urgent measures in the field of forest fires.

Other relevant information: The conservation status of the ZARs will be determined based on the variation recorded in the frequency of forest fires and the area affected by forest fires in each ZAR since their declaration.

The quantification of ZAR will be established according to the percentage of forest area declared ZAR in each autonomous community. The number of ZAR with approved Defense Plan will also be quantified.

6. Negative effects on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity

6.a Spanish Catalog of Invasive Alien Species

Content: Including, where scientific or technical information so advises, all invasive alien species or subspecies that constitute a serious threat to indigenous species, habitats or ecosystems, agronomy or for the economic resources associated with the use of natural heritage.

Structure: Alphanumerical information and geo-referenced documentary.

Update Periodicity: When relevant scientific or technical information is available, by means of the mechanism to be regulated.

The inclusion of a species in the Catalogue will be carried out by the Ministry on a proposal from the State Commission for Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, on the initiative of the Autonomous Communities or the Ministry itself.

Legal framework: Law 42/2007, of December 13, of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity, article 61.

Other relevant information: The inclusion in the Spanish Catalogue of Invasive Alien Species carries the generic prohibition of the possession, transport, trafficking and trade of live or dead specimens, of their remains or propagalos, including foreign trade.

6.b Forest Damage: Level I and Tier II Networks

Content: Realization of a periodic balance sheet on the variation of forest status in both space and time and its relationship to stress factors (with the Level I Network).

Analysis of the relationship between the state of vitality of forest ecosystems and stress factors through intensive and continuous monitoring of forest ecosystems (through the Level II Network).

Structure: Level I: Mapping and alphanumeric information with points in systematic mesh of 16 x 16 km.

Level II: Mapping information with polygon geometry in 50 x 50 m sampling plots.

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Framework Convention on Transboundary Long Distance Pollution (CLRTAP) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), signed (signed and initialled) by Spain.

Law 34/2007 of 15 November on Air Quality and Protection of the Atmosphere.

Other relevant information:

The data and results are used both nationally and internationally. At international level, they are sent to the coordinating centre of the ICP-orests programme (UNECE) and the EC, being of great importance for the formulation of forestry and environmental policies and providing information for a certain number of sustainable forest management criteria and indicators, as defined by the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE). Contributions have also been made to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and have been requested by European research bodies for the development of studies and models.

6.c General Forest Fire Statistics (*)

Content: Wildfires and associated information (Part Fire and Part/s of associated mounts). From each forest fire in the national territory, data is obtained on the following information fields:

Localization.

Times (detection, media arrival, control and extinction).

Detection (detection agent and place).

Cause of the fire.

Danger conditions at the start of the fire.

Type of fire.

Means used in extinction.

Extinction techniques.

Losses (Victims, Surfaces, Environmental Effects, Civil Protection Incidents).

Particular data from the mount.

Loss assessment (timber products and other leverage).

Protected Natural Spaces Data affected.

Information to permit knowledge of the situation of land affected by forest fires to ensure compliance with the provisions of Article 50 of Law 43/2003, of Montes.

Structure: Alphanumerical information georereferenced by geographic coordinate or municipal term. Additionally, mapping information with polygon geometry.

A consensus data model in the Forest Fire Fight Committee (CLIF).

Update Periodicity: Annual.

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

The data and results are used both nationally and internationally. At international level, they are sent to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the EC, being of great importance for the formulation of forestry and environmental policies and providing information for a number of criteria and management indicators. forest.

The forest fire database that makes up the General Fire Statistics contains data since 1968.

6.d National Soil Erosion Inventory (*)

Content: The National Soil Erosion Inventory conducts the study, at the state level, of the main erosion processes affecting the territory, both forest and agricultural, with a common methodology and characteristics. for the entire Spanish territory.

Includes its quantification, qualification, and cartographic representation, for each of the different processes:

Laminar Erosion and on Reguers.

Erosion in caravas and ravines.

Mass Movements.

Erosion in channels.

Wind erosion.

Structure: Mapping information, with polygons geometry and associated alphanumeric database.

Mapping information, in raster format.

Update periodicity: At least ten-year for the entire Spanish territory (as per art. 28.6 of Law 43/2003, of 21 November Montes)

Legal framework: Law 43/2003, of 21 November, of Montes, article 28.1 concerning the Spanish Forestry Statistics.

Other relevant information: Contains statistical operations included in the National Statistical Plan.

Laminar erosion and regueros are quantified in soil losses (t/ha-year).

Provides relevant information for use in:

Development of water-forest restoration plans and programs and fight against desertification.

Soil conservation and erosion control plans.

6.e State Register of Game and Fish Offenders

Content: Inscriptions of trade to persons who have been sanctioned by a firm, administrative or judicial decision, on file opened as a result of offences established in the legal provisions that involve deprivation of a hunting or disablement licence. The registration shall be sent by the autonomous communities that so wish or who have it in their legislation.

Sanctioned data.

Type of violation and qualification.

Sanctioning Authority.

Date of the penalty resolution.

Imposed penalties and other measures taken as compensation, hunting or disabling license.

The advertising and processing of these data will be subject to the limits established in this field, especially those imposed by the Organic Law 15/1999 of 13 December on the Protection of Personal Data.

Structure: Alphanumerical information with autonomic reference.

Update Periodicity: Continues.

6.f Network of Experimental Erosion And Desertification Monitoring Stations (RESEL)

Content: The experimental stations integrated in the Network are representative of the erosive landscapes of Spain. These are the continuous monitoring of processes linked to desertification, which allows us to obtain a direct knowledge of natural phenomena and their alteration.

Consists of a database of the Experimental Stations with their characteristics, and another that collects the monitoring of each year's processes.

Structure: Alphanumerical database and geo-referenced documentary to geographic coordinates of the Experimental Stations.

Update Periodicity: Annual. According to the hydrological year (October 1 to September 30).

Legal framework: National Action Programme against Desertification, PAND (Order ARM/ 2444/2008 of 12 August) in the framework of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, CNULD (ratified BOE 11-feb-97).

Other relevant information: Used for planning and design of preventive, management, and restoration measures. Recommendations for the use and management of the territory. Homogenization and validation of methods, techniques and instrumentation.

For most of the experimental stations the data series are started in the year 1995.

ANNEX II

Priority Components (*)

1. Forest Fire General Statistics.

2. Inventory of Protected Natural Spaces, Natural Network 2000 and Areas protected by international instruments.

3. Spanish Inventory of Marine Species.

4. Spanish inventory of terrestrial species.

5. Spanish inventory of marine habitats.

6. Spanish inventory of terrestrial habitats.

7. Spanish Inventory of Forest Heritage. Public utility mounts catalog.

8. National Forest Inventory.

9. National Soil Erosion Inventory.

10. Other components of the Spanish Forest Statistics.

ANNEX III

Fundamental Components

1. Spanish Catalog Of Invasive Alien Species.

2. Spanish catalogue of Habitats in Danger of Disappearance.

3. Forest Damage. Level I and II networks.

4. Hydraulic public domain.

5. Maritime-terrestrial public domain.

6. Landscape inventory.

7. Spanish inventory of Biological and Genetic Material Banks referred to wild species.

8. Spanish Inventory of Hunting and Fishing.

9. Spanish Inventory of Traditional Knowledge.

10. Spanish Inventory of Places of Geological Interest.

11. Spanish Inventory of Zoological Parks.

12. Spanish Inventory of Wetlands.

13. List of Wild Species in Special Protection Regime including the Spanish Catalogue of Endangered Species.

14. Soil map of the Project to Combat Desertification in the Mediterranean (LUCDEME).

15. Forest map of Spain.

16. Network of Experimental Erosion And Desertification Monitoring Stations (RESEL).

17. Network of livestock roads.

18. State Register of Game and Fish Offenders.

19. National register and catalogue of basic materials for the production of forest reproductive material.

20. High Risk Areas of Fire.

ANNEX IV

Theme areas to be grouped by the Indicators of the System of Indicators

a) Situation and trends of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

b) Indicators of degrees of threat or pressures on Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

c) Integrity of ecosystems, goods and ecosystem services.

d) Level of efficiency and sustainable use of natural resources.

e) Access and distribution of the benefits derived from Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

f) Financial, scientific and technical resources for the management and conservation of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.

g) Public opinion and awareness in the field of Natural Heritage and Biodiversity.