-- 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 Simple application schema.
-- Definition -- A data type designed to contain a designation for the Protected Site, including the designation scheme used and the value within that scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the World Heritage designation scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the World Heritage Man and Biosphere Programme classification scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the Ramsar Convention designatoin scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the Natura2000 designation scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the National Monuments Record classification scheme.
-- Definition -- A code list for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature classification scheme.
-- Definition -- The scheme used to assign a designation to the Protected Sites. -- Description -- NOTE 1 Schemes may be internationally recognised (for example, Natura2000 or the Emerald Network schemes), or may be national schemes (for example, the designations used for nature conservation in a particular Member State). NOTE 2 Typically, this code list will be extended with code schemes used within Member States.
-- Definition -- Abstract base type for code lists containing the classificaiton and desigation types under different schemes. -- Description -- NOTE 1Some of these designation and classification lists are closed (for example, Natura2000), while some change regularly. NOTE 2 Typically, additional code lists will be created as sub-types of this type to represent designation or classification values within Member States, e.g. natuurbeschermingsGebieden, rijksBeschermdeArcheologischeGebieden, nationaleParken, nationaleLandschappen etc. in the Netherlands.
-- Definition -- The protected site classification based on the purpose of protection.