Impacts/Pressures & Threats - Deciding which classification scheme to use
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This directory contains 3 Excel spreadsheets. Depending upon the type of project
that is being undertaken one format or other may be appropriate. 

TWO OPTIONS ARE PRESENTED BELOW. YOU ARE ADVISED TO CONTACT THE NPWS PROJECT 
CO-ORDINATOR BEFORE YOU PROCEED TO USE EITHER SCHEME.



OPTION 1: A NPWS Habitat/Species survey is being undertaken

At present, seeing that the Natura 2000 SDF is currently using the classification
system listed in the Excel spreadsheet:

impacts.xls

The liklihood is that for Option 1 this version should be used in these cases.
The document: impactguidance.pdf provides guidance on usage.



OPTION 2: A NPWS Habitat/Species monitoring survey is being undertaken

As the results of monitoring surveys feed into Article 17 Reporting it is
considered more appropriate that the newer classification system is used
for these projects. The classification system is described in the 
spreadsheet:

Pressures_Threats_Final_20180507.xls


A crosswalk spreadsheet showing links between the two systems has been 
supplied by the EU. This is presented in the spreadsheet:

Pressures_Threats_Crosswalk_with_Previous_List_20180516.xls

This spreadsheet can be used to translate from one system to
the other if data already exist.


Edwin Wymer
10/07/2020

