Prescribed compensatory measures for biodiversity damage – France as a whole
Description
Soil artificialisation is the leading cause of degradation of natural environments and biodiversity. In France, the regulatory system aimed at avoiding environmental damage, reducing those that could not be sufficiently avoided and compensating for effects that could not be avoided or sufficiently reduced is known as the ERC sequence (“avoid, reduce, compensate”).
Where biodiversity is degraded by a development project, and if measures to reduce or avoid the impacts of that project are insufficient, compensatory measures must be implemented.
A countervailing measure for biodiversity damage intervenes on the residual impact of a development project, when all possible measures have been implemented to avoid and reduce negative impacts on biodiversity. It aims to offer a positive counterpart to a non-reducible harmful impact caused by a project, in order to maintain biodiversity in a state equivalent or better than that observed before its realisation.
Compensatory measures are implemented through rehabilitation, restoration or creation of environments. They must be supplemented by precautionary management measures (e.g.: extensive grazing, hedge maintenance, etc.) to ensure the environmental quality of the environment is maintained.
This provision of countervailing measures for biodiversity damage provides access to the location of approximately 3,000 measures prescribed in administrative acts. The information characterising each measure is described in the data awarded. Only environmental compensatory measures (within the meaning of L.122-1-III of the Environmental Code) are represented (e.g. collective agricultural compensation or forest compensation are not concerned). The mapping relates to the measures prescribed in administrative acts.
The lack of measurement on the map does not mean that there are no measurements on the ground. Certain measures prescribed before the publication of the law of 8 August 2016 for the reconquest of biodiversity may not be present. Some by-laws drafted before 2016 do not provide information on the geolocation of the measurements and cannot therefore be mapped precisely but only at the level of the municipality.
Regular updating (former administrative acts or addition of recently prescribed measures) is foreseen.
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