Protected Sites Natura2000

-- Definition -- An area designated or managed within a framework of international, Community and Member States' legislation to achieve specific conservation objectives. -- Description -- Each protected site has a boundary defined through formal, legal or administrative agreements or decisions. The establishment of a protected site is normally underpinned by legislation and thus given weight in decisions about land use change and spatial planning. Each Site is normally selected as a representative example of a wider resource and selected through a formal criterion based approach. A protected site can be a contiguous extent of land/sea or a collection of discrete areas that together represent a single formal Protected Site. This class has the attributes, constraints and associations that are part of the Natura2000 application schema.