SRUP — Natura 2000 Network — Special Conservation Areas

Servitude and Restriction of Public Utility (SRUP) — Natura 2000 Network — Special Conservation Areas, in force in mainland Portugal. The Natura 2000 Network — Special Conservation Zones are a servitude and restriction of public utility. Natura 2000 is a European ecological network resulting from the implementation of two separate Community directives — the Birds Directive and Directva Habitats. The Natura 2000 Network encompasses areas classified as Special Conservation Areas (SECs) and areas classified as Special Protection Zones (PEZs). The Habitats Directive aims at the conservation of biodiversity by maintaining natural habitats and populations of wild fauna and flora species identified in that directive. The Habitats Directive provides for each Member State of the European Union to demarcate the sites on the national list from which the competent bodies of the European Union select sites of Community importance. After selecting sites of community importance, each member state has to classify them as Special Conservation Areas (SEC) by means of a Regulatory Decree. The inclusion, exclusion or modification of limits of a site from the national list of sites is approved by Resolution of the Council of Ministers, on a proposal from the Institute for Conservation of Nature and Forests, I.P. Sites of Community importance are advertised through the Ordinance of the respective Minister responsible for the area of nature conservation, and within six years from the date of their recognition, they will be classified as Special Areas of Conservation (ZEC) by means of Regulatory Decree. A Z.E.C. is a site of Community importance in the national territory to which the measures necessary for the maintenance or restoration of the favourable conservation status of natural habitats or populations of the species of wild fauna and flora for which the site is designated are applied. The geographical information provided through the respective web services was produced by DGT and other official entities, from information legally deposited in the National Territorial Information System (SNIT) related to the delimitation of Natura 2000 — Special Conservation Areas.