257 tal-2003 - Regolamenti tal-2003 dwar il-Protezzjoni tal-Flora, Fawna u Abitati Naturali (schedulevi)

L.N. 257 of 2003

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION ACT, 2001

(CAP. 435)

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ACT, 1992

(CAP. 356)

Flora, Fauna and Natural Habitats Protection Regulations, 2003

BY virtue of the powers conferred by articles 6, 9, 10(2), 11 and

23 of the Environment Protection Act, 2001 and article 60 of the

Development Planning Act, 1992, the Minister for Rural Affairs and

the Environment has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Flora, Fauna and Citation and entry

into force.

Natural Habitats Protection Regulations, 2003.

(2) Part VII of these regulations shall come into force on

such a date as the Minister responsible for the environment may by

notice in the Gazette appoint.

(3) A notice under paragraph (b) of this sub-regulation may

make such transitional provisions as appear to the Minister to be

necessary or expedient in connection with the provisions thereby brought

into force.

PART I

INTERPRETATION

ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE

AND OF IMPORTANCE TO AGREEMENT STATES

WHOSE TAKING IN THE WILD AND EXPLOITATION

MAY BE SUBJECT TO MANAGEMENT MEASURES

Interpretation

1. The species listed in this Schedule are indicated

– by the name of the species or subspecies, or

– by the body of species belonging to a higher taxon or to a designated part of that

taxon.

2. The abbreviation 'spp.' after the name of a family or genus designates all the species

belonging to that genus.

3. The abbreviation "(s.l.)", meaning ‘sensu lato’ is used to indicate that the

scientific name is used in its most extended meaning.

4. Where required, scientific synonyms of each species or lower taxon are included

in square brackets after the scientific name. These are included to facilitate

interpretation of the scientific information provided.

5. A number of scientific names are followed by the abbreviations ‘auct. fl. Melit.’

which refers to the scientific name(s) with which that particular taxon is and/or

was recorded in Maltese biodiversity literature; this scientific name is also of legal

value, since in some cases, it represents the only reference to species whose

proper scientific identification is still uncertain.

6. Where available, vernacular names, in both Maltese and English have been

included for each taxon. This information is included for clarification purposes.

(a) FAUNA

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Name

CRUSTACEA

Homarus gammarus

Iljunfant tal-Bahar

European Lobster

Maja squinado

Ghaguza

Spiny Spider Lobster

Palinurus elephas

Awwista

Common Spiny Lobster

Scyllarus latus

Flat Lobster; European

Ckala; Ckala Hamra

[= Scyllarides latus]

Paddle-Nosed Lobster

Scyllarides pigmaeus

Ckala

Pygmy Flat Lobster

Scyllarus arctus

Ckala

Small Flat Lobster

B

MOLLUSCA

ECHINODERMATA

Paracentrotus lividus

Stony Sea-Urchin; Rock-

Rizza

Urchin

PISCES

Alopias vulpinus

Pixxivolpi

Thresher Shark

Alosa alosa

Lacci

Allis Shad

Alosa fallax

Mediterranean Twaite

Lacca tat-Tbajja’

Shad

Anguilla anguilla

Sallura

Common European Eel

Carcharias Taurus

Tawru

Sand Tiger Shark

Carcharhinus brevipinna

Kelb il-Bahar

Spinner Shark

Carcharhinus limbatus

Kelb il-Bahar

Blacktip Shark

Carcharhinus plumbeus

Kelb Griz

Sandbar Shark

Epinephelus marginatus

Cerna

Dusky Grouper

[= Epinephelus guaza]

Galeorhinus galeus

Kelb il-Bahar

Tope Shark

Hexanchus griseus

Murruna ta’ Sitt Gargi

Bluntnose Sixgill Shark

Isurus oxyrinchus

Pixxtondu

Shortfin Mako Shark

Lamna nasus

Pixxiplamtu

Porbeagle Hark

Petromyzon marinus

Qalfat

Sea Lamprey

Prionace glauca

Huta Kahla

Blue Shark

Pristis pristis

Pixxisega; Pixxiserrieq;

Common Sawfish

Sija

Raja alba

Raja

White Skate

Raja melitensis

Raja ta’ Malta

Maltese Brown Ray

Sciaena umbra

Gurbell

Brown Meagre

Squatina squatina

Xkatlu

Angel Shark

Syngnathus abaster

Gremxula tal-Bahar

Deep-Nosed Pipefish

Thunnus thynnus

Tonn; Tunnagg

Blue-Fin Tuna

Umbrina cirrosa

Gurbell

Bast Umber

Xiphias gladius

Pixxispad

Swordfish

(b) FLORA

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Name

RHODOPHYTA

Lithothamnion coralloides (P.L. Crouan &

H.M. Crouan) P.L. Crouan & H.M. Crouan

Korallina tar-Ramel Haj

Maerl Coralline Alga

[= Mesophyllum corallioides (P.L. Crouan &

H.M. Crouan) Lemoine]

B

Phymatholithon calcareum (Poll.) Adey &

McKibbin

[= Lithothamnion polymorphum (L.)

Korallina tar-Ramel Haj

Maerl Coralline Alga

Areschoug, Lithothamnion calcareum

(Pallas) Areschoug in J.Agardh]

HYMENOMYCETES

Pleurotus eryngii (DC. Ex Fr.) Quel. s.l.

Faqqiegh tal-Ferla

Oyster Mushroom

LICHENES

Cladonia L. spp.

Kladonji

Cladonia

Rocella phycopsis Ach.

Lehjet ix-Xih; Haziz tal-

Rocella

[= Rocella fucoids Vainio]

Presepju

BRYOPHYTA

Sphagnum L. spp.

(Muski)

Sphagnum Mosses

APIACEAE

Apium graveolens L.

Karfus Selvagg

Wild Celery

CAPPARACEAE

Capparis orientalis Veillard

[= Capparis rupestris Sibthorp & Smith;

Kappar

Caper Bush

C. spinosa subsp. rupestris (Sm.) Nyman;

C. spinosa var. inermis Turra]

Capparis spinosa L.

Kappar tax-Xewk

Spiny Caper

ERICACEAE

Erica multiflora L.

Erika; Issopu; Savina;

Saghtar Ahmar; Lehjet ix-

Mediterranean Heath

Xih

FABACEAE

Anthyllis hermanniae L.

Hatba s-Sewda

Shrubby Kidney-Vetch

LAMIACEAE (= LABIATAE)

Ballota nigra L. s.l.

Marrubja s-Sewda

Black Horehound

Marrubium vulgare L.

Marrubja l-Bajda

White Horehound

Rosmarinus officinalis L.

Klin

Rosemary

Salvia fruticosa Miller

Salvja Selvagga; Salvja ta’

Three-Lobed Sage

[= Salvia triloba L. fil.]

Sqallija

Salvia officinalis L.

Salvja; Salvja ta’ l-Ikel

Common Sage

Satureja graeca L. s.l.

Saghrija Griega

Greek Savory

[= Micromeria graeca (L.) Bentham s.l.]

Satureja microphylla (D'Urville) Gussone

Xpakkapietra; Xaqq il-

[= Micromeria microphylla (D’Urville)

Blat; Saghtrija;

Maltese Savory

Bentham]

Spakkapjetra

B

RANUNCULACEAE

Adonis microcarpa DC.

Ghallet is-Serduk; Ghan is-

Pheasant’s Eye

Serduk; Henna

AMARYLLIDACEAE

Narcissus elegans (Haworth) Spach

Narcis Imwahhar Skars

Elegant Narcissus

Narcissus tazetta L. s.l

Narcis; Rancis

French Daffodil

CYMODOCEACEAE

Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria) Ascherson

Alka Rqiqa; Cimodocja

Lesser Neptune-Grass

HYACINTHACEAE

Ornithogalum arabicum L.

Halib it-Tajr; Hara ta`-

Large Star-of-Bethlehem

Cawl

Ornithogalum narbonense L.

Southern Star-of-

Halib it-Tajr il-Komuni

Bethlehem

Urginea pancration (Steinheil) Philippe

Ghansar; Basal ta’ l-

Maltese Seaside Squill

Ghansar

LILIACEAE

Ruscus aculeatus L.

Nigzet il-Far; Rand Xandri

Butcher’s Broom

Ruscus hypophyllum L.

Belladonna; Rusku

Greater Butcher’s Broom

ORCHIDACEAE

Anacamptis pyramidalis (L.) L.C.M.

Common Pyramidal

Orkida Piramidali

Richard

Orchid

POSIDONIACEAE

Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile

Alka; Posidonja

Neptune-Grass

B

For the purpose of these regulations and unless the context Interpretation.

otherwise requires

“ the Act” means the Environment Protection Act, 2001;

“Agreement States” means an agreement, to which Malta is a

party, entered into by a group of states reciprocally granting to

citizens of such states or their dependants the right to enter, remain

and reside in and leave the territory of such a state, to move freely

within such states for such a period as may be established in the

agreement and to work or establish, provide or receive services

therein; and “Agreement State” and “citizen of an Agreement State”

shall be construed accordingly; and where a State is a party to

such an Agreement subject to modifications and adaptations, a

citizen of an Agreement State shall be subject to such modifications

or adaptations as may be prescribed;

“alien” means non-indigenous biodiversity which has never

been a native of Malta or which has either disappeared therefrom

or introduced therein during the past 500 years;

“biological resources” includes genetic resources, organisms

or parts thereof, populations, or any other biotic component of

ecosystems with actual or potential use or value for humanity;

“Competent Authority” means the Malta Environment and

Planning Authority;

“conservation” shall have the same meaning as defined in

the Act;

“conservation status of a migratory species” means the sum

of the influences acting on the migratory species that may affect

its long-term distribution and abundance;

”conservation status of a natural habitat” means the sum of

the influences acting on a natural habitat and its typical species

that may affect its long-term natural distribution, structure and

functions as well as the long-term survival of its typical species in

Malta;

“conservation status of a species” means the sum of the

influences acting on the species concerned that may affect the long-

term distribution and abundance of its populations in Malta;

“country of origin of genetic resources” means the country

which possesses those genetic resources in in situ conditions;

“country providing genetic resources” means the country

supplying genetic resources collected from in situ sources,

including populations of both wild and domesticated species, or

taken from ex situ sources, which may or may not have originated

in that country;

“Development Notification Order” means development

notification orders issued under The Development Notification

Order, 2001;

“Development Planning Act” means the Development

Planning Act, 1992;

“Director” means the Director responsible for environment

protection within the Competent Authority, or his designated

representative;

“domesticated or cultivated species” means species in which

the evolutionary process has been influenced by humans to meet

their needs;

“endangered” means a species which is in danger of extinction

and whose survival is unlikely if the causal factors continue

operating. Included are species whose numbers have been severely

depleted and reduced to a critical level or species whose habitat

has been drastically reduced;

“endemic” means those species found in Malta and which

are either species of biogeographical importance or species whose

native distribution range is limited to Malta only or to the Central

Mediterranean region only, whereby the latter region includes

Southern Italy (all Italian territory south of Florence), Sardinia,

Corsica, Sicily and circum-Sicilian islands (including Pantelleria

and the Pelagian Islands), the Maltese Islands, Tunisia and islands

off Tunisia. Such endemic species also include possibly endemic

species whose taxonomic status or identity requires further analysis;

“ex situ conservation” means the conservation of components

of biological diversity outside their natural habitats;

“favourable conservation status of a natural habitat” means a

natural habitat whose natural range and areas covered by it are

stable or increasing; and whose specific structure and functions

which are necessary for its long-term maintenance exist and are

likely to continue to exist for the foreseeable future; and where the

conservation status of its typical species is favourable;

“favourable conservation status of a species” occurs when

the population dynamics data on the species concerned indicate

that it is maintaining itself on a long-term basis as a viable

component of its natural habitats; and when the natural range of

the species is neither being reduced nor is likely to be reduced for

the foreseeable future; and when there is, and will probably continue

to be, a sufficiently large habitat to maintain the populations of the

species concerned on a long-term basis;

“General Development Order” means general development

orders issued under the General Development Order, 1997;

“genetic material” means any material of plant, animal,

microbial or other origin containing functional units of heredity;

“genetic resources” means genetic material of actual or

potential value;

“habitat of a species” means an environment defined by

specific abiotic and biotic factors, in which the species lives at any

stage of its biological cycle;

“in situ conditions” means conditions where genetic resources

exist within ecosystems and natural habitats, and, in the case of

domesticated or cultivated species, in the surroundings where they

have developed their distinctive properties;

“in situ conservation” means the conservation of ecosystems

and natural habitats and the maintenance and recovery of viable

populations of species in their natural surroundings and, in the

case of domesticated or cultivated species, in the surroundings

where they have developed their distinctive properties;

“migratory species” means the entire population or any

geographically separate part of the population of any species or

lower taxon of wild animals, a significant proportion of whose

members cyclically and predictably cross one or more national

jurisdictional boundaries;

“Minister” means the Minister responsible for the

environment;

“natural habitats” means terrestrial or aquatic areas

distinguished by geographic, abiotic and biotic features, whether

entirely natural or semi-natural;

“natural habitat types of National Importance and of

International Importance means such habitat types listed in

Schedule I to these regulations and include those natural habitats

(a) which are in danger of disappearance in their

natural range; or

(b) which have a small natural range following their

regression or by reason of their intrinsically restricted area;

or

(c) which present outstanding examples of typical

characteristics of one or more of the five following

biogeographical regions: Alpine, Atlantic, Continental,

Macaronesian and Mediterranean; or

(d) those natural habitats types included in international

treaties to which Malta is signatory or party;

“Pan-European Ecological Network” means a coherent Euro-

Mediterranean ecological network of special areas of conservation,

and includes, amongst others, the National Ecological Network,

the Emerald Network, set up in line with the obligations of the

Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural

Habitats, the List of Specially Protected Areas of Mediterranean

Interest set up by the Protocol concerning Specially Protected Areas

and Biological Diversity in the Mediterranean, and the Agreement

States’ Natura 2000 Network;

“permit” means a permission issued in terms of these

regulations;

“priority natural habitat types” means natural habitat types in

danger of disappearance which are present in Malta and for the

conservation of which Malta has particular responsibility in view

of the proportion of their natural range falling in Malta; these

priority natural habitat types are indicated by an asterisk (*) in

Schedule I attached to these regulations;

“priority species” means endangered species for the

conservation of which Malta has particular responsibility in view

of the proportion of their natural range falling in Malta; these

priority species are indicated by an asterisk (*) in Schedule II of

these regulations;

“rare” means a species with small populations that are not at

present endangered or vulnerable, but are at risk. This includes

species located within restricted geographical areas or that are thinly

scattered over a more extensive range;

“related Regulations” includes the Filfla Nature Reserve Act

of 1988, the Fungus Rock (il-:ebla tal-:eneral) Nature Reserve

Regulations of 1992, the Reptiles (Protection) Regulations of 1992,

the Selmunett Islands (St. Paul’s Islands) Nature Reserve

Regulations of 1993, the Flora and Fauna Protection Regulations

of 1993, the Protection of Birds and Wild Rabbit Regulations of

1993, the Trees and Woodland (Protection) Regulations of 2001,

the Marine Mammal (Protection) Regulations of 2003 and any other

related legislation;

“re-introduction” means the deliberate or accidental release

of an organism into the environment of a given site or territory,

which site or territory forms part of the natural distribution area of

the organism in question. The said organism belongs to an extinct

or endangered native species or taxon, which has previously been

observed as a naturally occurring and self-sustaining population

in historical times, but which has declined or disappeared as a result

of human intervention or a natural disaster;

“site” means a geographically defined area whose extent is

delineated, and includes the sea;

“site of National Importance and of International Importance”

means a site which, in the biogeographical region or regions to

which it belongs, contributes significantly to the maintenance or

restoration at a favourable conservation status of a natural habitat

type in Schedule I of these Regulations or of a species in Schedule

II of these Regulations and may also contribute significantly to

the coherence of the National Ecological Network; and, or to the

maintenance of biological diversity within the Mediterranean

biogeographic region;

“special area of conservation” or “SAC” means a protected

area and a site of National Importance and of International

Importance;

“species of biogeographical importance” means any species

found in the Maltese Islands which is or possibly is of a relict

nature or whose restricted distribution in the Mediterranean, and

that contributes to the understanding of the spatial patterns of

biodiversity in Malta, the Mediterranean, Europe and North Africa;

“species of National Importance and of International

Importance” means species found in Malta which are endangered,

vulnerable, rare, endemic, or species requiring particular attention,

or a priority species. Such species are listed or may be listed in

Schedule II and, or Schedules IV, V and or VI;

“species requiring particular attention” means species

requiring particular attention by reason of the specific nature of

their habitat and, or the potential impact of their exploitation on

their habitat and, or the potential impact of their exploitation on

their conservation status;

“specimen” means any animal or plant, whether alive or dead,

of the species listed in Schedules IV, V and VI, whether whole or

in part, whether in the original form or after having undergone any

transformation, and includes any construction made by them. It

includes any part or derivative thereof, as well as any other goods

which appear, from an accompanying document, the packaging or

a mark or label, or from any other circumstances, to be parts or

derivatives of animals or plants of those species;

“sustainable use” means the use of components of biological

diversity in a way and at a rate that does not lead to the long-term

decline of biological diversity, thereby maintaining its potential to

meet the needs and aspirations of present and future generations;

“vulnerable” means a species believed or that is likely to

become endangered in the near future if the causal factors continue

operating.

IDENTIFICATION AND MONITORING

1. Ecosystems and habitats which may be classed into one or more of the following

containing high diversity,

large numbers of endemic or threatened species, or wilderness;

required by migratory species;

are natural habitats, sites or species of National Importance or of Importance to the

Agreement States;

isolated, unusual, atypical, peculiar natural habitats or biotopes;

of social, economic, cultural or scientific importance; or,

which are representative, unique or associated with key evolutionary or other biological

processes;

2. Species, communities and populations which may be classed into one or more of the

following

endemic or threatened;

are species of National Importance or of Importance to the Agreement States;

with a restricted distribution in the Maltese Islands, the Mediterranean or within the territory

of the Agreement States;

isolated, unusual, atypical or peculiar populations of endemic, threatened or common

species;

wild relatives of domesticated or cultivated species;

of medicinal, agricultural or other economic value;

of social, scientific or cultural importance; or

of importance for research into the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity,

such as indicator species; and

3. Described genomes and genes of social, scientific or economic importance.

B

The competent authority shall be responsible for the Administration.

administration and implementation of these regulations.

PART II

SETTING UP THE NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL NETWORK

ENDEMIC SPECIES NOT COVERED BY REGULATION 20

Isem Malti/Maltese

Isem bl-

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Name

Ingliz/English Name

Allium melitense (Sommier et Caruana

Gatto) Ciferri et Giacomini

Kurrat ta’ Malta

Maltese Leek

[= A. ampeloprasum L. var. melitense

Sommier et Caruana Gatto]

Anthemis urvilleana (DC.) Sommier et

Caruana Gatto

Maltese Sea-

Bebuna tal-Bahar

[= A. secundiramea Bivona ssp. urvilleana

Chamomile

(DC.) Fernandez]

Calendula sicula Gussone

[= Calendula suffruticosa Vahl subsp.

Suffejra ta’ Malta

Sicilian Marigold

fulgida Rafinesque var. gussonii (Lanza)

Ohle]

Chiliadenus bocconei Brullo

[= Jasonia glutinosa (L.) DC. Auct. fl.

Tulliera ta’ Malta

Maltese Fleabane

Melit.]

Orobanche muteli FW Schultz forma

White Broomrape;

Budebbus Abjad;

melitensis (Beck in Sommier et Caruana

Maltese Sorrel

Budebbus ta’ l-Ingliza

Gatto) Lanfranco

Broomrape

Euphorbia exigua L.

Tenghud Irqiq ta’

Maltese Dwarf

var. pycnophylla Kramer et Westra

Malta

Spurge

Filago cossyrensis Lojacono

[= F. pyramidata L. var. gussonei (Fiori)

Kabuccinella ta’ Malta

Maltese Cudweed

Wagenitz]

Carlina involucrata Poiret

Clustered Carline-

Sajtun

[=Carlina corymbosa L. auct. fl. Melit.]

Thistle

Fedia graciliflora Fischer & Meyer

var. insularis Mathez & Xena de Enrech

Sieq I-Hamiema

Horn-of-Plenty

[=Fedia cornucopiae (L.) Gaertner auct. fl.

Melit.]

Phagnalon graecum Boissier et Heldreich

Lixka Komuni

Eastern Phagnalon

subsp. ginzbergerii Pignatti

Periploca angustifolia Labillardiere

[=P. laevigata Aiton subsp. angustifolia

Sigret il-Harir

African Wolfbane

(Labillardiere) Markgraf]

Xpakkapietra;

Satureja microphylla (D’Urville) Gussone

Saghtrija;

[= Micromeria microphylla (D’Urville)

Maltese Savory

Spakkapjetra; Xaqq il-

Bentham]

Blat

Hypericum aegypticum L.

Egyptian St John’s

Fexfiex ta’ l-Irdum

[= Triadenia aegyptiaca (L.) Boissier]

Wort

B

Urginea pancration (Steinheil) Philippe

Ghansar;

[= Urginea maritima (L.) Baker auct. fl.

Sea-Side Squill

Basal ta’ l-Ghansar

Melit.]

Muticaria macrostoma (Cantraine) s.l.

excluding M. macrostoma mamotica and M.

Dussies

Maltese Door-Snail

macrostoma scalaris

Trochoidea spratti (Pfeiffer) s.l.

excluding T. spratti cucullus and T. spratti

Zugrag

MalteseTop-Snail

despotti

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(1) The competent authority shall set up a coherent ecological The national

ecological network

network of special areas of conservation under the title of the National and international

protection.

Ecological Network.

This network shall also include

(a)

sites designated as special areas of conservation;

(b) sites hosting the natural habitat types listed in Schedule

I of these regulations;

(c) habitats of the species listed in Schedule II of these

regulations,

and shall enable the natural habitat types and the species’

habitats concerned to be maintained or, where appropriate,

restored at a favourable conservation status in their natural

range.

(2) Such network shall be composed of sites characterised

by one or more of the following features

(a) representative types of biodiversity of adequate size to

ensure their long-term viability and to maintain their biological

diversity; or

(b) habitats which are in danger of disappearing in their

natural area of distribution or which have a reduced natural area of

distribution as a consequence of their regression or on account of

their intrinsically restricted area; or

(c) habitats critical to the survival, reproduction and

recovery of endangered, threatened or endemic species of flora or

fauna; or

(d) any site where certain endemic, possibly endemic, native

and, or potentially native species with a restricted distribution in

the Maltese Islands occur;

(e) any site in the Maltese Islands where certain endemic,

possibly endemic, native and, or potentially native species,

communities and, or biotopes are found; or

(f) any site which represents the type locality of a species

or biotope, particularly if this species or biotope is endemic or

possibly endemic;

(g) sites of particular importance because of their scientific,

ecological, biodiversity, biogeographical, zoological, botanical,

aesthetic, cultural, landscape or educational interest; or

(h) any site which the competent authority may consider as

having relevant features but which are not listed above.

(3) Where considered necessary, the competent authority

may improve the ecological coherence of the National Ecological

Network by maintaining, and where appropriate developing, features

of the landscape which are of major importance for wild fauna and

flora, as referred to in subregulation (8) or regulation 8.

(4) With the aim of setting up a Pan-European Ecological

Network, and also on the basis of these Regulations, the Competent

Authority shall propose to relevant international institutions or

organisations the list of sites of International Importance to be compiled

in accordance with the provisions of regulation 5 hereof.

(5) The list shall be transmitted to the relevant international

institutions, organisations and Agreement States, together with

information on each site. This information shall include a map of the

site, its name, location, extent and the data resulting from the application

of these regulations.

PART III

PROTECTED AREAS

(1) On the basis of the criteria set out in Schedule III Selection of sites

eligible for

(Stage 1) of these regulations and relevant scientific information, identification as

the competent authority shall, from time to time, propose a list of sites of national or

of international

sites indicating with respect to each site which natural habitat types importance.

in Schedule I of these regulations and which species in Schedule II

of these regulations that are native to Malta are hosted by the sites

in question

Provided that for animal species ranging over wide areas these

sites shall correspond to the places within the natural range of such

species which present the physical or biological factors essential to their

life and reproduction

Provided also that for aquatic species which range over wide areas,

such sites will be proposed only where there is a clearly identifiable

area representing the physical and biological factors essential to their

life and reproduction.

(2) The Competent Authority shall furthermore distinguish

between those sites which, in the opinion of the Competent Authority,

are sites of National Imporatnce or sites of International Importance.

(3) Once a site of National Importance or of International

Importance has been identified by the Competent Authority in

accordance with the procedure laid down in the provisions of Schedule

III of these regulations, the competent authority shall provisionally

designate that site as a candidate special area of conservation as soon as

possible, establishing priorities in the light of:–

(a) the importance of the sites for the maintenance or

restoration, at a favourable conservation status, of

(i)

a natural habitat type in Schedule I, or

(ii) a species in Schedule II, and

(iii) for the coherence of the National Ecological

Network and the Pan-European Ecological Network, and

(b) the threats of degradation or destruction to which those

sites are exposed.

(4) As soon as a site is either placed by the Competent

Authority on the list referred to in subregulation (1), or declared as a

SAC it shall be subject to the provisions of these regulations.

(1) Upon the identification of a site as a SAC by the

Competent Authority in accordance with the provisions of section 5

hereof, the Competent Authority shall publish such details of such site

or sites in the Gazette and in a local newspaper. The Competent Authority

shall also notify any one of the owners of any site designated as a SAC

of its inclusion in the list, and shall also affix such a notice on site. If

none of such owners is known, or if it is not reasonably possible to

effect service on such owners, the said notice shall only be affixed on

site and no service on such owners as aforesaid need be made. The

Special Area of Conservation list, shall be registered in an index held

for that purpose. The said index shall be held in an electronic form in

such a way that researches to determine the status of a site may be

carried out. The Authority shall keep a copy of the said index in the

office of the Land Registry and shall issue a certificate which indicates

the status of a particular site on the payment of such fee as may be

prescribed.

(2) The Competent Authority shall provide further

protection to the SACs by specifying

(a)

where possible, the boundaries of the SAC;

(b) the boundaries of the different categories of protected

areas within the same SAC, if more than one category of protected

area is present;

(c) the protection and management measures to be adopted

with respect to the various uses and activities, in line with the

provisions of these regulations and the related regulations.

(3) For the purpose of this regulation, “site” shall also

include a single property of more than one property, irrespective of

who is the owner of that property, which forms part of the site which is

designated a SAC.

(1) The Competent Authority shall issue guidelines for the Competent

Authority to issue

management and conservation of protected areas.

guidelines.

(2) The SAC may be zoned by the Competent Authority in

such a way as to have different categories of protected areas, according

to the management requirements set by the Competent Authority.

(3) Each SAC may be encircled by the Competent Authority

by a buffer zone or a management area

Provided that such buffer zone or management area may

contain representative communities or species worth of protection, and

may not necessarily be a rural area. It may also include, man-made or

man-induced ecosystems which are subject to the same or limited

management provisions as the categorised protected area or areas.

(4) The Competent Authority shall ensure that the buffer

zone should be large enough to screen, minimise and, or absorb the

impact of detrimental activities occurring in nearby non-protected areas.

(5) The protection of SACs may be further achieved either

through the publishing of relevant regulations under the Act or related

Acts, or via administrative and, or contractual agreements made with

the Competent Authority.

(1) The Competent Authority shall establish the necessary Management plans

and appropriate

conservation measures required for special areas of conservation.

action for

conservation.

(2) The Competent Authority shall take appropriate steps

to avoid, in the special areas of conservation, the deterioration of natural

habitats and the habitats of species, as well as the disturbance of the

species for which the areas have been designated, in so far as such

disturbance could be significant in relation to the objectives of these

regulations.

(3) The Competent Authority shall issue a management plan

for the said SACs which shall include planning, management,

supervision and monitoring measures in line with the protection category

or categories assigned to the SAC in question. Such measures may

include for each protected area as appropriate

(a) a long-term ecological vision for the SAC and the related

terrestrial, coastal and marine communities, and provisions for

biodiversity protection, zoning, public awareness and education,

management, performance evaluation and any other activities

required by the Competent Authority;

(b) the legal and institutional framework and protection

measures applicable;

(c) the continuous monitoring of ecological processes,

habitats, population dynamics, landscapes, as well as the impact

of human activities;

(d) the active involvement of local communities and

populations, as appropriate, in the management of the SAC,

including assistance to local inhabitants who might be affected by

the establishment of such area;

(e) the adoption of mechanisms for financing the promotion

and management of the SAC, as well as the development of

activities which ensure that management is compatible with the

objectives of conservation of such area;

(f) the regulation of activities compatible with the objectives

for which the SAC was established and the terms of the related

permits; and

(g) the training of managers and qualified technical

personnel, as well as the development of an appropriate

infrastructure for its management.

(4) The Competent Authority shall promote and enforce the

management and use in a sustainable manner of the special areas of

conservation, depending on the categories of protected area included in

the SAC

Provided that such management or use shall not

compromise the structure and function of biodiversity, including the

land areas, coastal areas, submerged lands and water column, with which

they are associated.

(5) The Competent Authority shall review the management

plans of each SAC at least every five years, and regularly assess the

state of the SAC and the progress made in the implementation of the

management plan and these regulations.

(6) The Competent Authority shall ensure that national

management plans or contingency plans incorporate measures for

responding to incidents that could cause damage or constitute a threat

to the SAC.

(7) When SACs covering both land and marine areas have

been established, the Competent Authority shall endeavour to ensure

the coordination of the administration and management of the protected

area as a whole.

(8) For the purposes of the Development Planning Act and Act I of 1992.

with respect to development plans or supplementary planning guidance

prepared as a consequence thereto, the Competent Authority shall

endeavour to develop policies in respect of the conservation of the natural

beauty and amenity of the land which are of major importance for wild

fauna and flora, with a view to improving the ecological coherence of

the National Ecological Network and the Pan-European Ecological

Network.

(1) For the purposes of implementing the management plans Management

agreement.

as aforesaid for special areas of conservation, the Competent Authority

may enter into a management agreement with every owner, lessee or

occupier of land forming part of such areas for the management,

conservation, restoration or protection of the site, or any part of it.

(2) A management agreement may provide for

(a) the management of the land, whether in public ownership

or in private ownership, and for the carrying out thereon of such

work and the doing thereon of such other things as may be expedient

for the purposes of conservation

Provided that in the case of land in public ownership the

consent of the Commissioner of Land is obtained beforehand;

(b) any of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) being

carried out, or for the costs thereof being defrayed, either by the

said owner or other persons or by the Competent Authority or

through monies made available through the Environment Fund, or

partly in one way and partly in another.

(3) Such a management agreement shall be registered in

the land registry and shall be enforceable at the instance of the Competent

Authority against any person having an interest in the land and against

any person deriving title from him.

Any management agreement previously entered into by the

Competent Authority or by government in relation to a site which on or

after the commencement of these regulations becomes a special area of

conservation, shall have effect as if entered into under regulation 9 of

these regulations.

(1) The Competent Authority may make in respect of any

conservation orders.

site, within a SAC, a conservation order to contribute towards ensuring

biodiversity through the conservation of natural habitats and of wild

flora or fauna and to manintain and restore natural habitats and species

of wild flora and fauna or geological or physiographical features. The

conservation order shall specify those operations or activities which

appear to the authority likely to destroy or damage the flora, fauna, or

geological or physiographical features by reason of which the site is a

special area of conservation.

(2) The Competent Authority shall publish such details of

such a conservation order in the Gazette and in a local newspaper. The

Competent Authority shall also notify any one of the owners of any site

subject of a conservation order, and shall also affix such a notice on

site. If none of such owners is known, or if it is not reasonably possible

to effect service on such owners, the said notice shall only be affixed on

site and no service on such owners as aforesaid need be made. Notice

of such conservation order shall be registered in an index held for that

purpose. The said index shall be held in an electronic form in such a

way that researches to determine whether a site is subject to an order

may be carried out. The Authority shall keep a copy of the said index in

the office of the Land Registry and shall issue a certificate which

indicates the status of a particular site on the payment of such fee as

may be prescribed.

(3) A conservation order made under this regulation may

contain such conditions and other provisions as the Competent Authority

may deem necessary or expedient; and a conservation order may regulate

any matter affecting the site. Conservation orders may be amended or

revoked by a further order.

(4) In respect of any site within a special conservation area,

the Competent Authority shall also have power to require the owner, by

notice in writing, to undertake such works generally, or as may be

specified in the notice, as may be necessary to ensure that no further

deterioration occurs. In default, the Competent Authority may give a

further notice to the owner to carry out and complete the works within

a specified time, and if the owner is still in default it may itself carry

out, or cause to be carried out, the necessary works and recover the cost

thereof from the owner of the site.

(5) For the purpose of this article, “site” includes a single

property of more than one property, irrespective of who is the owner of

that property, which forms part of the site which is subject to a

conservation order.

(1) No person shall carry out on any site within a special Restrictions on

operations and

area of conservation, any operation or activity , unless the operation or activities.

activity is carried out, or caused or permitted to be carried out, by the

owner or occupier of the site and one of them has given the Competent

Authority written notice of a proposal to carry out the operation or

activity, specifying its nature and the site on which it is proposed to

carry it out.

(2) The Competent Authority shall notify the applicant of

its consent or otherwise for the carrying out of such operation or activity.

A consent granted by the Competent Authority under this regulation

may contain such conditions and other provisions it deems fit and

appropriate to impose. The Competent Authority may furthermore

regulate such an operation or activity in a management agreement validly

entered into in accordance with the provisions of regulation 9.

(1) Where it appears to the Competent Authority that an Supplementary

provisions as to

application for consent under these regulations relates to an operation consents.

or activity which is or forms part of a plan or project which:–

(a) is not directly connected with or necessary to the

management of the SAC, and

(b) is likely to have a significant effect thereon, either

individually or in combination with other plans or projects,

the Competent Authority shall make, or require the applicant

to make, an appropriate assessment, of the implications of the

operation or activity on the site in view of the site’s conservation

objectives.

In the light of the conclusions of the assessment of the

implications for the site and subject to the provisions of subregulation 2

of this regulation, the Competent Authority may give consent to the

operation or activity only after having ascertained that the plan or project

will not adversely affect the integrity of the site concerned and if

appropriate, after having obtained and taken into account the opinion

of the general public and representations made within such reasonable

time as the Competent Authority may specify.

(2) If, in spite of a negative assessment of the implications

for the site and the Competent Authority being satisfied that there being

no alternative solutions, a plan or project must nevertheless be carried

out for imperative reasons of overriding public interest, which subject

to the subsequent subregulation, may be of a social or economic nature,

the Competent Authority may give its consent for the operation or

activity to be carried out.

(3) Where the SAC concerned hosts a priority natural habitat

type and, or a priority species, the reasons referred to in the previous

subregulation must be either

(a) reasons relating to human health, public safety or

beneficial consequences of primary importance for the

environment, or

(b) other reasons which in the opinion of the Competent

Authority or the Agreement States are imperative reasons of

overriding public interest.

(4) Where the Competent Authority gives such consent

under this regulation, it shall take all compensatory measures necessary

to ensure that the overall coherence of the National Ecological Network

and the Pan-European Ecological Network are protected.

The provisions of regulation 13 shall mutatis mutandis apply

in the consideration of applications for development permission affecting

special areas of conservation and on determining a reconsideration or

appeal under the provisions of the Development Planning Act.

Similarly an outline development permit shall not be granted

unless the Competent Authority is satisfied (whether by reason of the

conditions and limitations to which the outline permission is to be made

subject, or otherwise) that no development that is likely to effect the

integrity of the special area of conservation in an adverse manner could

be carried out under the permission, whether before or after obtaining

approval of any reserved matters.

(1) It shall be a condition of any development consent

granted or deemed to be granted by the provisions of the Development

Notification Order or by a General Development Order issued by the

Competent Authority, whether made before or after the coming into

force of these regulations, that development which:–

(a) is likely to have a significant effect on a special area of

conservation (either alone or in combination with other plans or

projects), and

(b) is not directly connected with or necessary to the

management of the site,

shall not commence or continue until the developer has received written

notification of the consent of the Competent Authority under regulation

(2) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to

such sites designated as a SAC of national importance.

16. (1) Where it is intended to carry out development in reliance Development

Notification Order

upon the consent granted or deemed to be granted by the provisions of and General

the Development Notification Order or by a General Development Order Development

Orders approval of

issued by the Competent Authority, an application shall be made in Competent

Authority.

writing to the Competent Authority.

(2) The application shall:–

(a) give details of the development which is intended to be

carried out; and

(b) be accompanied by any fee required to be paid.

(3) The Competent Authority shall consider the application

in accordance with the provisions of regulation 15.

(4) Where the Competent Authority considers that it has

sufficient information to conclude that the development will, or will

not have such an effect, it may proceed to make, or require the applicant

to make an appropriate assessment of the implications of the

development for the special area of conservation in view of the site’s

conservation objectives.

(5) If the Competent Authority considers that it has

insufficient information to reach either of these conclusions, it shall

notify the applicant in writing indicating in what respects it considers

the information insufficient; and the applicant may supply further

information with a view to enable the Competent Authority to reach a

decision on the application.

(6) In the light of the conclusions of the assessment referred

to in sub-regulation (4), the Competent Authority shall approve the

development only after having ascertained that it will not adversely

affect the integrity of the site.

(7) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply to such

sites designated as a SAC of national importance.

(1) The Competent Authority may, having regard to the

provisions of these regulations and other material considerations, by

notice served on the owner or occupier of any site, require any existing

use or activity or any works to be discontinued or any building, plant,

equipment or other thing whatsoever to be removed from any site, or

requiring both such discontinuance and removal.

(2) Where a discontinuance or removal order is made in

respect of any activity, works or use, or of a building, plant, equipment

or other thing lawfully carried on or in existence on the site mentioned

in the notice before the commencement of these regulations, or which

was started or came into existence after the commencement of these

regulations in accordance with a development permission issued under

the Development Planning Act, the Competent Authority shall be liable

to pay compensation for any losses sustained as a result of the notice:–

Provided that any benefits derived from the same notice shall

be offset against the lossess aforesaid.

PART IV

PROTECTION OF SPECIES

(1) Without prejudice to the Flora and Fauna Protection

Regulations, 1993, no person shall deliberately pick, collect, cut, uproot,

destroy or damage in any way any specimen of species of flora listed in

Schedule IV to these regulations.

(2) Without prejudice to the Flora and Fauna Protection

Regulations of 1993, and the Trade in Species of Fauna and Flora

Regulations of 1992, no person shall keep, transport, sell or exchange

by any method, import or export any specimen of species listed in the

Schedule IV to these regulations unless he is in possession of a prior

official permit from the Competent Authority or Director as appropriate.

(3) The prohibitions referred to in subregulations (1) and

(2) shall apply to all stages of the biological cycle of the plants to which

this regulation applies.

(1) Without prejudice to the related regulations and the Protection of fauna.

L.N. 19 of 1992.

Trade in Species of Fauna and Flora Regulations, 1992

(a) no person shall pursue, take or attempt to take, capture,

kill or attempt to kill, possess, transport, by any method sell, buy,

exchange, offer for sale or for exchange, import or export any

specimen of species listed in the Schedule V to these regulations,

except for those taken legally before these regulations came into

force;

(b) no person shall deliberately disturb any species listed

in Schedule V to these regulations particularly during periods of

breeding, rearing, hibernation or migration;

(c) the destruction and deterioration of breeding sites or

resting places for those animal species listed in Schedules II and V

to these regulations is prohibited;

(d) the prohibition referred to in paragraph (a), (b) and (c)

hereof shall apply to all stages of life of the animals to which this

regulation applies.

(2) The Competent Authority shall set up a system to

monitor the incidental capture and killing of the animal species listed in

Schedule V.

In the light of the information gathered, the Competent

Authority shall carry out further research or conservation measures as

required to ensure that incidental capture and killing does not have a

significant negative impact on the species concerned.

(1) All endemic species are protected, except for those Protection of

endemic

species listed in Schedule VIII to these regulations.

species.

(2) Without prejudice to regulations 18 and 19 of these

regulations, the related regulations and the Trade in Species of Fauna

and Flora Regulations,1992, no person shall deliberately pick, collect,

cut, uproot, destroy, pursue, take or attempt to take, damage in any way,

capture, kill or attempt to kill, possess, transport, by any method sell,

buy, exchange, offer for sale or for exchange, import or export any

specimen of all endemic species not listed in Schedule VIII to these

regulations, unless he is in possession of a prior official permit from the

Competent Authority or Director as appropriate.

(3) No person shall deliberately disturb any endemic species,

except for those species listed in Schedule VIII to these regulations,

particularly during periods of reproduction, seeding, fruiting and fruit-

shedding, breeding, rearing, hibernation or migration.

(4) The prohibition referred to in subregulations (2) and (3)

shall apply to all stages of life and biological cycle of the flora or fauna

to which this regulation applies.

(1) If, in the light of the surveillance provided for in these

regulations the Competent Authority deems it necessary, it shall take

any measures to ensure that the taking in the wild of specimen of species

of wild fauna and flora listed in Schedule VI as well as their exploitation

is compatible with their being maintained at a favourable conservation

(2) Such measures may also include in particular

(a) temporary or local prohibition of the taking of specimen

in the wild and exploitation of certain populations;

(b) regulation of the periods and, or methods of taking

specimen;

(c) application, when specimen are taken, of hunting and

fishing rules which take account of the conservation of such

populations;

(d) establishment of a system of licences for taking specimen

or of quotas;

(e) regulation of the purchase, sale, offering for sale, keeping

for sale or transport for sale of specimen;

(f) breeding in captivity of animal species as well as artificial

propagation of plant species, under strictly controlled conditions,

with a view to reducing the taking of specimen of the wild;

(g) any other measure deemed necessary by the Competent

Authority; and

(h) an assessment of the effect of the measures adopted.

PART V

INTRODUCTION AND RE-INTRODUCTION

OF SPECIES

(1) The Competent Authority may prohibit the importation Control of

alien species.

of any species of flora and fauna, if in its opinion, this importation can

harm or lead to the endangering of biodiversity of Malta, or for other

reasons in the national interest.

(2) The Competent Authority shall take all necessary

measures to prevent, control, and monitor the introduction of organisms

belonging to alien species with the potential to establish populations

into the environment.

(3) In order to implement further subregulations (1) to (2)

of this regulation, the Competent Authority shall compile and publish a

detailed list of those alien species affecting or which may affect Maltese

biodiversity.

(4) The Competent Authority shall develop eradication or

control plans and related programmes aimed to prevent, control, and

monitor the introduction of those alien species with the potential to

establish populations into the environment.

(1) The Competent Authority shall carry out a study to Re-introduction of

species.

assess the desirability of re-introducing species in Schedule II that are

native to Malta, where this might contribute to their conservation.

(2) Prior to re-introducing a species into the natural

environment, particularly if it is an endemic species or a species listed

in Schedules II, IV and V attached to these regulations, the competent

authority shall commission, or request to be commissioned, a study to

establish whether such re-introduction contributes effectively to re-

establishing such species at a favourable conservation status.

(3) Such study is to take into account the experience of

Agreement States.

(4) The Competent Authority shall carry out any re-

introduction only after proper consultation with public concerned.

Without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 39, the Return of protected

species.

Competent Authority shall take all possible measures, where practical,

for the return of protected specimen from the person illegally possessing

the specimen. All expenses made in connection with the carrying out of

such measures should be borne by the person, persons or body found

guilty of illegal possession and trade.

PART VI

CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE USE

The Competent Authority shall

(a) develop a national strategy and other relevant policies

and plans, action plans and related programmes aimed for the

conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity;

(b) adapt existing strategies, plans or programmes to reflect,

inter alia, the measures set out in these Regulations, the related

regulations and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Incorporation Regulations, 2002;

(c) as far as possible and as appropriate, integrate the

conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity into relevant

sectoral or cross-sectoral plans, programmes and policies; and

(d) promote the integration of conservation policies and

sustainable use of biodiversity in plans, programmes and policies

prepared by other authorities.

The Competent Authority shall, as far as possible and as

appropriate

(a) rehabilitate and restore degraded ecosystems and

promote the recovery of threatened species, inter alia, through the

development and implementation of plans or other management

strategies;

(b) prevent the introduction of, control or eradicate those

alien species which threaten ecosystems, habitats or species, in

line with the provisions set in these regulations and the related

regulations; and

(c) endeavour to provide the conditions needed for

compatibility between present uses and the conservation of

biological diversity and the sustainable use of its components.

The Competent Authority shall, as far as possible and as Ex-situ

conservation.

appropriate, and predominantly for the purpose of complementing in

situ measures

(a) promote measures for the ex situ conservation of

components of biological diversity, preferably in the country or

island of origin of such components;

(b) promote the establishment and maintenance of facilities

for ex situ conservation of and research on plants, animals and

micro-organisms;

(c) adopt measures for the recovery and rehabilitation of

threatened species and for their reintroduction into their original

natural habitats under appropriate conditions; and

(d) regulate, manage or liase with managers of biological

resource collections for ex situ conservation purposes so as not to

threaten ecosystems and in situ populations of species, except where

special temporary ex situ measures are required under paragraph

(c) above.

The Competent Authority shall, as far as possible and as Sustainable use of

components of

appropriate

biological diversity.

(a) take measures to integrate consideration of the

conservation and sustainable use of biological resources into

national decision-making;

(b) adopt codes of practice, guidelines or measures relating

to the use of biological resources so as to avoid or minimise adverse

impacts on biodiversity;

(c) protect and encourage customary use of biological

resources in accordance with traditional cultural practices that are

compatible with conservation or sustainable use requirements;

(d) support local populations to develop and implement

remedial actions in degraded areas where biological diversity has

been reduced; and

(e) encourage cooperation between governmental

authorities and private sector in developing methods for sustainable

use of biological resources.

PART VII

ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES

(1) Without prejudice to the Trade in Species of Fauna and

Flora Regulations of 1992, and related regulations, access to genetic

resources to countries other than Malta shall be subject to prior informed

consent of the Competent Authority , provided that agricultural products

and domesticated animals are excluded from this provision.

(2) Access, where granted, shall be on mutually agreed

terms and subject to the provisions of this regulation.

(3) Such access to genetic resources should guarantee a fair

and equitable way for the sharing of the results of research, development

and benefits arising from the commercial and other utilisation of such

genetic resources by the country requesting such access. Such sharing

shall be upon mutually agreed terms.

For the purpose of these regulations, the genetic resources

being provided by Malta, as referred to in regulation 22, are only those

genetic resources for which Malta is the country of origin or that Malta

is a country providing genetic resources, having acquired such genetic

resources in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations

Convention on Biological Diversity, done at Rio de Janeiro on the fifth

day of June 1992.

PART VIII

SURVEILLANCE AND MONITORING

The Competent Authority shall, as far as possible and as

appropriate, in particular for the purposes of these regulations and the

related regulations

(a) undertake surveillance and monitoring of biodiversity

and the conservation status of the natural habitats and species, with

particular regard to priority natural habitat types and priority

species;

(b) identify components of biodiversity important for its

conservation and sustainable use having regard to the indicative

list of categories set down in Schedule VII to these regulations;

(c) monitor the components of biodiversity identified

pursuant to paragraph (a) above, paying particular attention to those

requiring urgent conservation measures and those which offer the

greatest potential for sustainable use;

(d) identify processes and categories of activities which have

or are likely to have significant adverse impacts on the conservation

and sustainable use of biological diversity, and monitor their effects;

(e) assess the status, dynamics and seasonal movements of

the populations of the protected species concerned; and

(f) maintain and organise, by any mechanism, data derived

from identification and monitoring activities pursuant to paragraphs

(a), (b), (c) and (d) above.

(1) The Competent Authority shall set up national inventories National database

on

aimed for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, in order biodiversity.

to maintain and organise data resulting from the application of these

regulations and the related regulations.

(2) As far as practically possible, these inventories shall

be digitised and made freely available to the public, subject to the

provisions of the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment

L.N. 217 of 2001.

Regulations,2001.

PART IX

COMMUNICATIONS AND RESEARCH

(1) The Competent Authority shall promote education and Communications,

education, public

general information on the need to protect species of wild fauna and awareness.

flora and to conserve their habitats and natural habitats.

(2) In this respect, the Competent Authority , shall promote

and encourage

(a) appropriate publicity to the establishment of protected

areas, their boundaries, applicable regulations, and to protected

species and their habitats;

(b) the understanding of the importance of, and the measures

required for, the conservation, protection and management of

biodiversity;

(c) the inclusion of biodiversity protection and management,

the interest and value of protected areas and protected species, the

scientific knowledge which may be gained from the point of view

of nature conservation, and other relevant points of view in

appropriate education programmes;

(d) the dissemination of information on biodiversity

protection held by the Competent Authority, and that this is made

available according to the provisions set by the Freedom of Access

to Information on the Environment Regulations, 2001;

(e) public participation in measures that are necessary for

the protection of the areas and species concerned; and

(f) co-operation, as appropriate, with national bodies and

entities, Agreement States and international organisations in

developing educational and public awareness programmes, with

respect to conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity.

(1) The Competent Authority shall promote national and

international research and scientific cooperation in the field of

conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, where necessary,

through the appropriate national and international institutions.

(2) The necessary research and scientific work with regards

to the objectives and obligations of these Regulations and the related

regulations shall be encouraged. Particular attention is to be given to

scientific work necessary for the implementation of Articles 4 to 23,

taking into account transboundary cooperative research between

countries.

The Competent Authority shall establish a clearing-house

mechanism to promote and facilitate communication, education and

public awareness, as well as technical and scientific research and

cooperation, in line with provisions of these Regulations, the related

regulations, the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment

Regulations, 2001 and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Incorporation Regulations, 2002.

PART X

PERMITTING AND PENALTIES

(1) The Competent Authority may issue a permit prior to

(a)

the taking and, or keeping of any specimen,

(b) the introduction and, or re-introduction of species,

(c)

the import and, or export of any specimen or species,

(d) bona fide scientific studies,

(e) bona fide educational studies, and

(f) without prejudice to the provisions of Part III of

these regulations, any other activity related to these regulations

Provided that the Competent Authority shall not issue such

a permit if such activities threaten any specimen, SAC, sites or

species of national importance and of international importance or

the biodiversity of Malta.

(2) The person requesting a permit for activities referred to

in sub-regulation (1), hereinafter referred to as the applicant, shall submit

in writing an application to the Competent Authority prior to carrying

out such activities.

(3) In order to enable the Competent Authority to assess a

request for permission, the application shall be accompanied by the

relevant documents and any other requisite information as specified

and required by the Competent Authority.

(4) The Competent Authority may amend, suspend or revoke

any permit and, or other such authorisation instruments for activities

that are consistent with these regulations.

(5) Whenever the Competent Authority issues a permit, it

may impose such conditions as it may deem fit and appropriate.

(6) Whenever the Competent Authority refuses such

permission, it shall inform the applicant the reasons for such refusal.

(7) Without prejudice to any other obligations and

conditions laid down by the Competent Authority, a permit holder is

obliged to submit within a month from the expiry of the permit or at the

end of the calendar year

(a)

a detailed report of the activities undertaken;

(b) the aim and what field of work or activity was carried out;

(c)

the methodology employed;

(d) the outcome and results achieved in connection with

the permit.

(8) A copy of any published results and other publications

relevant to this permit shall reach the Competent Authority within three

months from the date of publication.

(9) The period of validity of such permit shall also be

established at the discretion of the Competent Authority, provided that

the validity of the permit does not exceed one calendar year.

(10) The Competent Authority shall not issue or renew any

permit if the applicant in question has not fulfilled or honoured any of

the conditions or obligations arising from any other permit issued by

the Competent Authority under these regulations and, or the related

regulations.

(11) The Director may, on behalf of the Competent

Authority, in cases of emergency or grave danger, issue a temporary

permit for any of the activities listed in sub-regulation (1) of this

regulation, and in so doing he may issue any such directives he may

deem fit.

Details of persons, public entities and other institutions having

been granted a permit in connection with these regulations together

with the details of conditions imposed in such permissions shall be

maintained in a register available for public inspection or maintained in

electronic form.

(1) Where its disclosure affects one or more of the items

mentioned in the Freedom of Access to Information on the Environment

Regulations, 2001, the applicant may indicate the information in the

permit application submitted pursuant to these regulations that should

be treated as confidential. Verifiable justification must be given in such

cases.

(2) The Competent Authority shall decide, after consultation

with the applicant, which information shall be kept confidential and

shall inform the applicant of its decision.

(3)

In no case may the following information be kept

confidential

– the name and address of the applicant,

– the institution, if any, requiring the permit,

– the species, biotope, natural habitat, site, area or SAC involved,

– the aim and purpose of the application,

– the benefits arising from the permit,

– the possible impacts on local biodiversity, including the species,

biotope, natural habitat, or area involved,

– the evaluation of foreseeable effects, in particular any harmful

effects on the environment.

(4) The Competent Authority shall not divulge to third

parties any information decided to be confidential according to paragraph

(2), and shall protect intellectual property rights relating to the data

received.

(5) If, for whatever reasons, the applicant withdraws the

application, the Competent Authority must respect the confidentiality

of the information supplied.

Offences and

(1) Any person –

penalties.

(a) who fails to observe the provisions of these regulations

or of any other lawful order given by virtue of any provision of

these regulations, or

(b) who infringes any restriction, prohibition or need

imposed by these regulations or by virtue thereof , or

(c) who fails to observe any condition of a permit or consent

granted under the provisions of these regulations, or

(d) who acts in contravention of any provision of these

regulations, or

(e) who conspires or attempts to conspire, aids or attempts

to aid, abets or attempts to abet, counsels or attempts to counsel,

procures or attempts to procure any other person to contravene the

provisions of these regulations, or to fail from complying with

any one of these provisions, including any lawful order given by

virtue of any provision of these regulations, or to infringe any

restriction, prohibition or need imposed by these regulations or by

virtue thereof;

shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.

(2) Any person who commits, or attempts to commit an

offence against regulations 18, 19, 20, 22 and 23 of these regulations

shall, on conviction, be liable:-

(a) in the case of a first offence, a fine (multa) of not less

than Lm200 for each specimen, but not exceeding Lm1,000 for

each specimen;

(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, a fine

(multa) of not less than Lm500 for each specimen, but not

exceeding Lm2,000 for each specimen, or imprisonment for a

period not exceeding two years, or both such fine and

imprisonment

Provided that any such fines do not together exceed the limits

imposed by the Act.

(3) Any person who commits or attempts to commit an

offence against regulations 13, 29, 36 and sub-regulation (3) of regulation

38 of these regulations shall, on conviction, be liable:-

(a) in the case of a first offence, a fine (multa) of not less

than Lm1,000 but not exceeding Lm 10,000;

(b) in the case of a second or subsequent offence, a fine

(multa) of not less than Lm2,000, but not exceeding Lm20,000, or

imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years, or both such

fine and imprisonment.

(4) Any person who has been found guilty of committing

an offence against these regulations shall also pay for the expenses

incurred for the keeping and transport of specimen, for remedying the

damage caused by the said infringement, and for any other expense

incurred or mitigation measures required to remedy such doings, damage

and infringement.

(5) The provisions of article 23 and subarticle (1) of article

30 of the Criminal Code shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to proceedings

in respect of offences against these regulations, so however that the

disqualification from holding or obtaining a licence, permit or authority

shall in no case be for less than one year.

(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of article 370 of the

Criminal Code, proceedings for an offence against these regulations

shall be taken before the Court of Magistrates (Malta) or the Court of

Magistrates (Gozo), as the case may be, and shall be in accordance

with the provisions of the Criminal Code regulating the procedure before

the said courts as courts of criminal judicature.

(7) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Criminal Code,

the Attorney General shall always have a right of appeal to the Court of

Criminal Appeal from any judgement given by the Court of Magistrates

(Malta) or the Court of Magistrates (Gozo), in respect of proceedings

for any offence against these regulations.

PART XI

OTHER PROVISIONS

The provisions of these regulations shall not apply in cases Non-applicability of

these regulations.

of defence and national security, public safety and health, salvage

operations and the investigation of offences.

Schedule I

NATURAL HABITAT TYPES WHOSE CONSERVATION

REQUIRES THE DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL AREAS OF

CONSERVATION

Interpretation

Guidance on the interpretation of habitat types is given in the 'Interpretation Manual

of European Union Habitats' published by the European Commission 1 .

The code corresponds to the Natura 2000 code.

The sign '*' indicates priority habitat types.

1. COASTAL AND HALOPHYTIC HABITATS

11. Open sea and tidal areas

Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time

* Posidonia beds (Posidonion oceanicae)

Estuaries

Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide

* Coastal lagoons

Large shallow inlets and bays

Reefs

Submarine structures made by leaking gases

12. Sea cliffs and shingle or stony beaches

Annual vegetation of drift lines

Perennial vegetation of stony banks

Vegetated sea cliffs of the Atlantic and Baltic Coasts

Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemic Limonium

Vegetated sea cliffs with endemic flora of the Macaronesian coasts

13. Atlantic and continental salt marshes and salt meadows

Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand

Spartina swards (Spartinion maritimae)

Atlantic salt meadows (Glauco-Puccinellietalia maritimae)

* Inland salt meadows

"Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats", version EUR 15/2” adopted by the Habitats

Committee on 4 October 1999 and "Amendments to the 'Interpretation Manual of European Union

Habitats' with a view to EU enlargement" (Hab. 01/11b-rev. 1) adopted by the Habitats Committee on

24 April 2002 after written consultation, European Commission, DG ENV.

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14. Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic salt marshes and salt meadows

Mediterranean salt meadows (Juncetalia maritimi)

Mediterranean and thermo-Atlantic halophilous scrubs (Sarcocornetea

fruticosi)

Halo-nitrophilous scrubs (Pegano-Salsoletea)

15. Salt and gypsum inland steppes

* Mediterranean salt steppes (Limonietalia)

* Iberian gypsum vegetation (Gypsophiletalia)

* Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes

16. Boreal Baltic archipelago, coastal and landupheaval areas

Baltic esker islands with sandy, rocky & shingle beach vegetation and

sublittoral vegetation

Boreal Baltic islets and small islands

* Boreal Baltic coastal meadows

Boreal Baltic sandy beaches with perennial vegetation

Boreal Baltic narrow inlets

2. COASTAL SAND DUNES AND INLAND DUNES

21. Sea dunes of the Atlantic, North Sea and Baltic coasts

Embryonic shifting dunes

Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ('white dunes')

* Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ('grey dunes')

* Decalcified fixed dunes with Empetrum nigrum

* Atlantic decalcified fixed dunes (Calluno-Ulicetea)

Dunes with Hippophaë rhamnoides

Dunes with Salix repens ssp. argentea (Salicion arenariae)

Wooded dunes of the Atlantic, Continental and Boreal region

Humid dune slacks

Machairs (* in Ireland)

22. Sea dunes of the Mediterranean coast

Crucianellion maritimae fixed beach dunes

Dunes with Euphorbia terracina

Malcolmietalia dune grasslands

Brachypodietalia dune grasslands with annuals

* Coastal dunes with Juniperus spp.

Cisto-Lavenduletalia dune sclerophyllous scrubs

* Wooded dunes with Pinus pinea and/or Pinus pinaster

23. Inland dunes, old and decalcified

Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Genista

Dry sand heaths with Calluna and Empetrum nigrum

Inland dunes with open Corynephorus and Agrostis grasslands

* Pannonic inland dunes

3. FRESHWATER HABITATS

31. Standing water

Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals of sandy plains

(Littorelletalia uniflorae)

Oligotrophic waters containing very few minerals generally on sandy soils

of the West Mediterranean, with Isoetes spp.

Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the

Littorelletea uniflorae and/or of the Isoëto-Nanojuncetea

Hard oligo-mesotrophic waters with benthic vegetation of Chara spp.

Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition-type

vegetation

Natural dystrophic lakes and ponds

* Mediterranean temporary ponds

* Turloughs

Lakes of gypsum karst

* Transylvanian hot-spring lotus beds

32. Running water – sections of water courses with natural or semi-natural

dynamics (minor, average and major beds) where the water quality

shows no significant deterioration

Fennoscandian natural rivers

Alpine rivers and the herbaceous vegetation along their banks

Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Myricaria germanica

Alpine rivers and their ligneous vegetation with Salix elaeagnos

Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Glaucium flavum

Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and

Callitricho-Batrachion vegetation

Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri p.p. and Bidention p.p.

vegetation

Constantly flowing Mediterranean rivers with Paspalo-Agrostidion species

and hanging curtains of Salix and Populus alba

Intermittently flowing Mediterranean rivers of the Paspalo-Agrostidion

4. TEMPERATE HEATH AND SCRUB

Northern Atlantic wet heaths with Erica tetralix

* Temperate Atlantic wet heaths with Erica ciliaris and Erica tetralix

European dry heaths

* Dry Atlantic coastal heaths with Erica vagans

* Endemic macaronesian heaths

Alpine and Boreal heaths

* Bushes with Pinus mugo and Rhododendron hirsutum (Mugo-

Rhododendretum hirsuti)

Sub-Arctic Salix spp. Scrub

Endemic oro-Mediterranean heaths with gorse

* Subcontinental peri-Pannonic scrub

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5. SCLEROPHYLLOUS SCRUB (MATORRAL)

Sub-Mediterranean and temperate scrub

Stable xerothermophilous formations with Buxus sempervirens on rock

slopes (Berberidion p.p.)

Mountain Cytisus purgans formations

Juniperus communis formations on heaths or calcareous grasslands

* Cistus palhinhae formations on maritime wet heaths

Mediterranean arborescent matorral

Arborescent matorral with Juniperus spp.

* Arborescent matorral with Zyziphus

* Arborescent matorral with Laurus nobilis

Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-steppe brush

Laurus nobilis thickets

Low formations of Euphorbia close to cliffs

Thermo-Mediterranean and pre-desert scrub (including formations with

Euphorbia dendroides, Euphorbia melitensis, Chamaerops humilis,

Periploca angustifolia and Ampelodesma mauritanica)

Phrygana

West Mediterranean cliff-top phryganas (Astragalo-Plantaginetum

subulatae)

Sarcopoterium spinosum phryganas

Endemic phryganas of the Euphorbio-Verbascion

6. NATURAL AND SEMI-NATURAL GRASSLAND FORMATIONS

Natural grasslands

* Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi

* Xeric sand calcareous grasslands

Calaminarian grasslands of the Violetalia calaminariae

Siliceous Pyrenean Festuca eskia grasslands

Siliceous alpine and boreal grasslands

Oro-Iberian Festuca indigesta grasslands

Alpine and subalpine calcareous grasslands

Macaronesian mesophile grasslands

Rupicolous pannonic grasslands (Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis)

Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies

Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates

(Festuco-Brometalia) (* important orchid sites)

* Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea

* Species-rich Nardus grasslands, on silicious substrates in mountain areas

(and submountain areas in Continental Europe)

* Sub-Pannonic steppic grasslands

* Pannonic loess steppic grasslands

* Pannonic sand steppes

* Fennoscandian lowland species-rich dry to mesic grasslands

* Nordic alvar and precambrian calcareous flatrocks

Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands (Scorzoneratalia villosae)

* Serpentinophilous grassland of Cyprus

Sclerophillous grazed forests (dehesas)

Dehesas with evergreen Quercus spp.

Semi-natural tall-herb humid meadows

Molinia meadows on calcareous, peaty or clayey-silt-laden soils (Molinion

caeruleae)

Mediterranean tall humid grasslands of the Molinio-Holoschoenion

Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to

alpine levels

Alluvial meadows of river valleys of the Cnidion dubii

Northern boreal alluvial meadows

Peat grasslands of Troodos

Mesophile grasslands

Lowland hay meadows (Alopecurus pratensis, Sanguisorba officinalis)

Mountain hay meadows

* Fennoscandian wooded meadows

7. RAISED BOGS AND MIRES AND FENS

Sphagnum acid bogs

* Active raised bogs

Degraded raised bogs still capable of natural regeneration

Blanket bogs (* if active bog)

Transition mires and quaking bogs

Depressions on peat substrates of the Rhynchosporion

Fennoscandian mineral-rich springs and springfens

Calcareous fens

* Calcareous fens with Cladium mariscus and species of the Caricion

davallianae

* Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion)

Alkaline fens

* Alpine pioneer formations of the Caricion bicoloris-atrofuscae

Boreal mires

* Aapa mires

* Palsa mires

8. ROCKY HABITATS AND CAVES

Scree

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Siliceous scree of the montane to snow levels (Androsacetalia alpinae and

Galeopsietalia ladani)

Calcareous and calcshist screes of the montane to alpine levels (Thlaspietea

rotundifolii)

Western Mediterranean and thermophilous scree

Eastern Mediterranean screes

Medio-European upland siliceous screes

* Medio-European calcareous scree of hill and montane levels

Rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation

Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation (including the

Maltese Rdum, Cliff, Scree, Boulder and Cliff Plateau Communities)

Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation

Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the

Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii

* Limestone pavements

Other rocky habitats

Caves not open to the public

Fields of lava and natural excavations

Submerged or partially submerged sea caves

Permanent glaciers

9. FORESTS

(Sub)natural woodland vegetation comprising native species forming forests of tall

trees, with typical undergrowth, and meeting the following criteria: rare or residual,

and/or hosting species of National Importance and of Importance to the Agreement

Forests of Boreal Europe

* Western Taïga

* Fennoscandian hemiboreal natural old broad-leaved deciduous forests

(Quercus, Tilia, Acer, Fraxinus or Ulmus) rich in epiphytes

* Natural forests of primary succession stages of landupheaval coast

Nordic subalpine/subarctic forests with Betula pubescens ssp. Czerepanovii

Fennoscandian herb-rich forests with Picea abies

Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers

Fennoscandian wooded pastures

* Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods

Forests of Temperate Europe

Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests

Atlantic acidophilous beech forests with Ilex and sometimes also Taxus in

the shrublayer (Quercion robori-petraeae or Ilici-Fagenion)

Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests

Medio-European subalpine beech woods with Acer and Rumex arifolius

Medio-European limestone beech forests of the Cephalanthero-Fagion

Sub-Atlantic and medio-European oak or oak-hornbeam forests of the

Carpinion betuli

Galio-Carpinetum oak-hornbeam forests

* Tilio-Acerion forests of slopes, screes and ravines

Old acidophilous oak woods with Quercus robur on sandy plains

Old sessile oak woods with Ilex and Blechnum in the British Isles

Thermophilous Fraxinus angustifolia woods

* Caledonian forest

* Bog woodland

* Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Padion,

Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)

Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor,

Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia, along the great rivers

(Ulmenion minoris)

* Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus

* Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens

* Euro-Siberian steppic woods with Quercus spp.

* Taxus baccata woods of the British Isles

Illyrian Fagus sylvatica forests (Aremonio-Fagion)

Illyrian oak-hornbeam forests (Erythronio-carpinion)

Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak forests

* Pannonic inland sand dune thicket (Junipero-Populetum albae)

Holy Cross fir forest (Abietetum polonicum)

Western Carpathian calcicolous Pinus sylvestris forests

Dinaric dolomite Scots pine forests (Genisto januensis-Pinetum)

Central European lichen Scots pine forests

Sarmatic steppe pine forest

Dacian Beech forests (Symphyto-Fagion)

Mediterranean deciduous forests

* Apeninne beech forests with Taxus and Ilex

* Apennine beech forests with Abies alba and beech forests with Abies

nebrodensis

Galicio-Portuguese oak woods with Quercus robur and Quercus pyrenaica

Quercus faginea and Quercus canariensis Iberian woods

Quercus trojana woods

Castanea sativa woods

Hellenic beech forests with Abies borisii-regis

Quercus frainetto woods

Cupressus forests (Acero-Cupression)

Salix alba and Populus alba galleries

Riparian formations on intermittent Mediterranean water courses with

Rhododendron ponticum, Salix and others

Platanus orientalis and Liquidambar orientalis woods (Platanion orientalis)

Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and

Securinegion tinctoriae)

Mediterranean sclerophyllous forests

Aegean Quercus brachyphylla woods

Olea and Ceratonia forests

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Quercus suber forests

Quercus ilex and Quercus rotundifolia forests (including Maltese forest

remnants)

Quercus macrolepis forests

* Macaronesian laurel forests (Laurus, Ocotea)

* Palm groves of Phoenix

Forests of Ilex aquifolium

* Scrub and low forest vegetation with Quercus alnifolia

Woodlands with Quercus infectoria (Anagyro foetidae-Quercetum

infectoriae)

Temperate mountainous coniferous forests

Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-

Piceetea)

Alpine Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra forests

Subalpine and montane Pinus uncinata forests (* if on gypsum or limestone)

Mediterranean and Macaronesian mountainous coniferous forests

* Southern Apennine Abies alba forests

Abies pinsapo forests

* (Sub-) Mediterranean pine forests with endemic black pines

Mediterranean pine forests with endemic Mesogean pines

Canarian endemic pine forests

* Endemic forests with Juniperus spp.

* Tetraclinis articulata forests, including MalteseTetraclinis articulata

* Mediterranean Taxus baccata woods

* Cedrus brevifolia forests (Cedrosetum brevifoliae)

Schedule II

ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES OF INTEREST WHOSE CONSERVATION

REQUIRES THE DESIGNATION OF SPECIAL AREAS OF CONSERVATION

Interpretation

(a) Schedule II follows on from Schedule I for the establishment of a consistent

network of special areas of conservation.

(b) The species listed in this Schedule are indicated

by the Scientific name of the species or subspecies, accompanied, where available,

by Maltese and English vernacular names of the said species or subspecies, or

by all the species belonging to a higher taxon or to a designated part of that taxon.

Where required, scientific synonyms of each species or lower taxon are included

in square brackets after the scientific name. These are included to facilitate

interpretation of the scientific information provided.

Other references to taxa higher than genus and/or species are for the purposes of

information or classification only.

(c) A number of scientific names are followed by the abbreviations ‘auct. fl. Melit.’

which refers to the scientific name(s) with which that particular taxon is and/or

was recorded in Maltese biodiversity literature; this scientific name is also of

legal value, since in some cases, it represents the only reference to species whose

proper scientific identification is still uncertain.

(d) Symbols and Abbreviations

An asterisk (*) before the name of a species or subspecies indicates that it is a

priority species.

The abbreviation 'spp.' after the name of a family or genus designates all the species

belonging to that family or genus.

The abbreviation "(s.l.)", meaning ‘sensu lato’ is used to indicate that the

scientific name is used in its most extended meaning.

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a) ANNIMALI/ANIMALS

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Name

MAMMIFERI/MAMMALS

Crocidura sicula

Gurdien ta’ Halqu Twil;

Sicilian Shrew

Gurdien tal-Munqar; Gurdien

tal-Geddum Twil

Miniopterus schreibersi

Farfett il-Lejl ta’ Xrajber

Schreiber’s Bat;

[= Vespertilio schreibersii]

Schreiber’s Bent-Winged

Bat

Monachus monachus

Bumerin; Monka; Foka

Mediterranean Monk Seal

Monaka

Myotis blythii punicus

Farfett il-Lejl Widnet il-

Mouse-Eared Bat

[= Myotis punicus]

Gurdien

Myotis capaccinii

Farfett il-Lejl tas-Swaba’

Long-Fingered Bat

Twal

Myotis myotis

Farfett il-Lejl Widnet il-

Greater Mouse-Eared Bat

Gurdien

Phocoena phocoena

Denfil Iswed; Fokena

Common Porpoise;

Harbour Porpoise

Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

Rinolofu l-Kbir; Farfett il-

Greater Horseshoe Bat

[= Vespertilio ferrum-equinum]

Lejl tan-Naghla l-Kbir

Rhinolophus hipposideros

Rinolofu z-Zghir; Farfett il-

Lesser Horseshoe Bat

[= Vespertilio hipposideros; V.

Lejl tan-Naghla z-Zghir

minutus]

Tursiops truncatus

Denfil; Denfil Geddumu

Bottlenose Dolphin

Qasir

RETTILI/REPTILIA

Caretta caretta

Fekruna tal-Bahar

Loggerhead Turtle

Chelonia mydas

Fekruna Hadranija

Green Turtle

Elaphe situla

Lifgha

Leopard Snake

Podarcis filfolensis filfolensis

Gremxula ta’ Filfla

Filfola Wall Lizard

Podarcis filfolensis generalensis

Gremxula ta’ Hagret il-

Fungus Rock Wall Lizard

General

Podarcis filfolensis kieselbachi

Gremxula tal-Gzejjer

St. Paul’s Island Wall

Lizard

HUT/FISH

Alosa spp.

Lacci

Shad

Aphanius fasciatus

Buzaqq

Maltese Killifish

Petromyzon marinus

Qalfat

Sea Lamprey

KROSTACEI/CRUSTACEA

Armadillidium ghardalamensis

Hanzir l-Art ta’ Ghar Dalam

G`ar Dalam Woodlouse

Potamon fluviatile lanfrancoi

Qabru; Granc ta’ l-Ilma Helu

Maltese Freshwater Crab

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INSETTI/INSECTA

Alaocyba melitensis

Bumunqar Ghama ta’ Malta

Maltese Blind Weevil

Amaurops mifsudi

Psefalida Ghamja ta’ Malta

Maltese Blind Psephalid

Brachytrupes megacephalus

Grillu tar-Ramel

Sand Cricket

[= Gryllus megacephalus]

Cerambyx cerdo

Susa tal-Ballut

Holm Oak Longhorn

Beetle

Myrmecophilus baronii

Gurat tan-Nemel

Maltese Ant-Locust

Othiorynchus (Arammichnus)

Bumunqar tar-Ramla

Maltese Sand Weevil

ovatulus

Pseudoseriscius cameroni

-

-

MOLLUSKI/MOLLUSCA

Dendropoma petraeum

Bebbuxu tal-Blat

Vermetid Snail

Gibbula nivosa

Gibbula ta’ Malta

Maltese Top-Shell

[= Trochus nivosus]

Lampedusa imitatrix s.l.

Dussies ta’ Malta

Maltese Door-Snail

Lampedusa melitensis

Dussies ta’ l-Irdum

Maltese Door-Snail

Pisidium spp.

Arzell ta’ l-Ilma Helu

Pea-Mussels

Trochoidea gharlapsi

Zugraga ta’ l-Irdum

Cliff Top-Snail

Trochoidea spratti cucullus

Zugraga ta’ l-Imtahleb

Mta`leb Top-Snail

[= T. cucullus; Helicella cucullus;

Xerophila cucullus]

Trochoidea spratti despotti

Zugraga ta’ Filfla

Filfola Top-Snail

[= T. despotti; T. pyramidata despotti,

Helicella pyramidata despotti]

(b)

PJANTI/PLANTS

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Name

RHODOPHYTA

Lithothamnion coralloides (P.L.

Korallina tar-Ramel Haj

Maerl Coralline Alga

Crouan & H.M. Crouan) P.L. Crouan

& H.M. Crouan

[= Mesophyllum corallioides (P.L.

Crouan & H.M. Crouan) Lemoine]

Lithothamnion minervae Basso

Korallina tar-Ramel Haj

Maerl Coralline Alga

Phymatholithon calcareum (Poll.)

Korallina tar-Ramel Haj

Maerl Coralline Alga

Adey & McKibbin

[= Lithothamnion polymorphum (L.)

Areschoug, Lithothamnion

calcareum (Pallas) Areschoug in

J.Agardh]

B

FUCOPHYTA

Cystoseira spp.

Cistosejri

Sea-Firs

BRYOPHYTA

Petalophyllum ralfsii (Wils.) Nees et

Hepatika; Petalofilla

Liverwort

Gott.

Riella helicophylla (Mont.) Hook.

Riella; Hepatika ta’ l-Ghadira

Liverwort

s-Safra

CUPRESSACEAE

Tetraclinis articulata (Vahl) Masters

Araar Tree; Alerce;

[= Callitris quadrivalvis Venten. ex

Gharghar/ Sigra tal-Gharghar

Sandarac Gum Tree

Rich.]

ANACARDIACEAE

Pistacia terebinthus L.

Skornabekk;Terebintu

Trementina; Sigratat-

Terebinth; Turpentine Tree

Turpentina

Rhus coriaria L.

Xumakk tal-Konz

Common Sumach

ASTERACEAE (=

COMPOSITAE)

Crepis pusilla (Sommier)

Maltese Dwarf

Merxmüller

Melitella

Hawksbeard

[= Melitella pusilla Sommier]

Helichrysum melitense (Pignatti)

Sempreviva ta‘ Ghawdex

Maltese Everlasting

Brullo, Pavone et Ronsisvalle

Hyoseris frutescens Brullo

Zigland ta’ Ghawdex

Maltese Hyoseris

Otanthus maritimus (L.)

Santolina tar-Ramel; Bajda

Hoffmannsegg et Link

Cottonweed; Sea Cudweed

tar-Ramel

[= Diotis candidissima Desfontaines]

Matricaria aurea (Loefling) Schultz

Bipontinus

Kamumella Nana

Rayless Mayweed

[= Chamomilla aurea (Loefling)

Gay ex Coss. et Kralik]

Palaeocyanus crassifolius (Bertoloni)

Dostál

[= Centaurea crassifolia Bertoloni;

Widnet il-Bahar

Maltese Rock-Centaury

Cheirolophus crassifolius (Bertoloni)

Susanna]

BRASSICACEAE (=

CRUCIFERAE)

Matthiola incana (L.) R. Brown

subsp. melitensis Brullo, Lanfranco,

Gizi ta’ Malta

Maltese Stocks

Pavone et Ronsisvalle

B

CHENOPODIACEAE

Cremnophyton lanfrancoi Brullo et

Bjanka ta‘ l-Irdum

Maltese Cliff-Orache

Pavone

CISTACEAE

Cistus spp.

Borghom; ~isti

Rock-Roses

CONVOLVULACEAE

Convolvulus oleifolius Desrousseaux

Leblieb ta’ l-Irdum

Olive-Leaved Bindweed

ELATINACEAE

Elatine gussonei (Sommier) Brullo,

Elatine; Harira ta’ l-Ilma

Maltese Waterwort

Lanfranco, Pavone et Ronsisvalle

ERICACEAE

Erica multiflora L.

Erika; Issopu; Savina;

Saghtar Ahmar; Lehjet ix-

Mediterranean Heath

Xih

EUPHORBIACEAE

Euphorbia dendroides L.

Tenghud tas-Sigra

Tree Spurge

Euphorbia melitensis Parlatore

[= Euphorbia spinosa auct. fl. Melit.

non L.;

Tenghud tax-Xaghri

Maltese Spurge

= Euphorbia bivonae auct. fl. Melit.

non Steudel]

Euphorbia paralias L.

Tenghud tar-Ramel

Sea Spurge

Euphorbia terracina L.

Tenghud tax-Xatt

Coast Spurge

FABACEAE

Anagyris foetida L.

Fula tal-Klieb

Bean Trefoil Tree

Anthyllis hermanniae L.

Hatba s-Sewda

Shrubby Kidney-Vetch

Lotus halophilus Boissier et Spruner

Ghantux tar-Ramel

Sand Restharrow

LAMIACEAE (= LABIATAE)

Origanum dictamnus L.

Riegnu ta’ Gnien il-Kbir

Cretan Dittany

Teucrium scordioides Schreber

[= T. scordium L. subsp. scordioides

Borghom ta’ l-Ilma

Water Germander

(Schreb.) Arcangeli]

Thymus capitatus L.

[= Thymbra capitata (L.) Cavanilles;

Saghtar

Mediterranean Thyme

Coridothymus capitatus (L.)

Reichenbach fil.]

OROBANCHACEAE

Orobanche densiflora Salzmann s.l.

Budebbus tar-Ramel

Sand Broomrape

B

PLUMBAGINACEAE

Limonium melitense Brullo

Lehjet ix-Xih; Limonju ta’

[= Statice cosyrensis auct. fl. Melit.

Maltese Sea-Lavender

Malta

non Gussone]

Limonium zeraphae Brullo

Lehjet ix-Xih; Limonju ta’

[= Statice reticulata auct. fl. Melit.

Zerafa’s Sea-Lavender

Zerafa

non L.]

RHAMNACEAE

Paliurus spina-christi Miller

Xewk tal-Kuruna; Xewk ta’

Christ’s Thorn

Kristu

ROSACEAE

Rosa sempervirens L.

Girlanda tal-Wied

Evergreen Rose

Sarcopoterium spinosum (L.) Spach

Tursin il-Ghul Xewwieki

Thorny Burnet

[= Poterium spinosum L.]

SALICACEAE

Salix alba L.

Zafzafa; Zafzafa Kbira

White Willow

Salix pedicellata Desfontaines

Zafzafa z-Zghira

Mediterranean Willow

SCROPHULARIACEAE

Linaria pseudolaxiflora Lojacono

Papocci ta’ Malta; Xatbet l-

Maltese Toadflax

Andar ta’ Malta

SOLANACEAE

Lycium intricatum Boissier

Southern Boxthorn;

[= Lycium europaeum auct. fl.

Ghawseg

Southern Tea-Tree

Melit. non L. p.p.]

ULMACEAE

Ulmus canescens Melville

[= Ulmus minor Miller subsp.

Nemmiesa; Sigra tan-

Hoary Elm; Grey-Leaved

canescens (Melville) K.Browicz &

Nemus; Ulmu

Elm

J.Zielinski]

ALLIACEAE

Allium lojaconoi Brullo, Lanfranco et

Pavone

Tewm Irqiq ta’ Malta

Maltese Dwarf Garlic

[= Allium parciflorum auct. fl.

Melit non Viviani]

CYMODOCEACEAE

Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria)

Ascherson

Alka Rqiqa; Cimodocja

Lesser Neptune-Grass

[= Zostera nodosa Ucria]

B

IRIDACEAE

Iris pseudopumila Tineo

Bellus

Southern Dwarf Iris

Iris sicula Todaro

Fjurdulis Sqalli

Sicilian Iris

JUNCACEAE

Juncus acutus L.

Simar il-Lixx

Sharp-Pointed Rush

Juncus maritimus Lamarck

Simar tal-Bahar

Sea Rush

LILIACEAE

Tulipa australis Link

(=Tulipa sylvestris auct. Melit. non

Tulipan Selvagg

Wild Tulip

L.)

ORCHIDACEAE

Anacamptis urvilleana Sommier et

Caruana Gatto

Orkida Piramidali ta’ Malta

Maltese Pyramidal Orchid

[= Orchis pyramidalis L. var.

sommeriana Borg]

Ophrys fuciflora (F.W. Schmidt)

Moench

Brimba

Late Spider Orchid

[= Ophrys holosericea auct. fl. Melit.

non (Burm.) Greuter]

Ophrys lacaitae Lojacono

Yellow Spider Orchid;

[= O. oxyrrhynchos subsp. lacaitae

Brimba Safra

Lacaita‘s Spider Orchid

(Lojacono) Del Prete]

Ophrys lunulata Parlatore

Crescent Orchid; Moon

[= O. sphegodes subsp. lunulata

Brimba tal-Qamar

Orchid

(Parl.) Sundermann)

Ophrys melitensis (Salkowski)

Devillers-Terschuren et Devillers

Brimba s-Sewda

Maltese Spider Orchid

[= O. sphegodes Miller subsp.

melitensis Salkowski]

Ophrys tenthredinifera Willdenow s.l.

Nahla Kbira

Sawfly Orchid

[= Ophrys tenoreana Lindley s.l.]

Ophrys oxyrrhynchos Todaro

[= Ophrys fuciflora subsp.

Brimba ta’ Sqallija

Beaked Spider Orchid

oxyrrhynchos (Todaro) Soó]

POACEAE

Ampelodesma mauritanica (Poiret)

Durand et Schinz

Dis

Diss

[= Ampelodesma tenax Link]

POSIDONIACEAE

Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile

Alka; Posidonja

Neptune-Grass

ZANNICHELLIACEAE

Zannichellia melitensis Brullo,

Harira ta’ l-Ilma

Maltese Horned-Pondweed

B

Giusso et Lanfranco

[= Zannichellia palustris auct. fl.

Melit. non L.; = Z. pedunculata auct.

fl. Melit. non Rchb. in Mössler]

ZOSTERACEAE

Zostera marina L.

Alka tas-Salini; Zostera

Eel-Grass; Grass-Wrack

Zostera noltii Hornemann

Alka tal-Pwales; Zostera

Slender Eel-Grass

[= Zostera nana Roth]

Nana

B

Schedule III

CRITERIA FOR SELECTING SITES ELIGIBLE FOR IDENTIFICATION

AS SITES OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE

AND OF INTERNATIONAL IMPORTANCE

AND DESIGNATION AS SPECIAL AREAS OF CONSERVATION

STAGE 1

Assessment at national level of the relative importance of sites for each natural habitat

type in Schedule I and each species in Schedule II (including priority natural habitat

types and priority species)

A. Site assessment criteria for a given natural habitat type in Schedule I

(a) Degree of representativity of the natural habitat type on the site.

(b) Area of the site covered by the natural habitat type in relation to the total area

covered by that natural habitat type within Malta.

(c) Degree of conservation of the structure and functions of the natural habitat type

concerned and restoration possibilities.

(d) Global assessment of the value of the site for conservation of the natural habitat

type concerned.

B. Site assessment criteria for a given species in Schedule II

(a) Size and density of the population of the species present on the site in relation to

the populations present within Malta.

(b) Degree of conservation of the features of the habitat which are important for the

species concerned and restoration possibilities.

(c) Degree of isolation of the population present on the site in relation to the natural

range of the species.

(d) Global assessment of the value of the site for conservation of the species

concerned.

C. On the basis of these criteria, the Competent Authority will classify the sites

which it proposed on the national list as sites eligible for identification as sites of

National Importance and of International Importance according to their relative

value for the conservation of each natural habitat type in Schedule I or each

species in Schedule II.

D. That list will show the sites containing the priority natural habitat types and

priority species selected by the Competent Authority on the basis of the criteria

in A and B above.

B

STAGE 2

Assessment of the national and international importance of the sites included on the

national lists.

1. All the sites identified by the Competent Authority in Stage 1 which contain

priority natural habitat types and/or species will be considered as sites of

National Importance and of International Importance.

2. The assessment of the national and international importance of other sites, i.e.

their contribution to maintaining or re-establishing, at a favourable conservation

status, a natural habitat in Schedule I or a species in Schedule II and/or to the

coherence of the National Ecological Network and the Pan-European Ecological

Network will take account of the following criteria

(a) relative value of the site at national level;

(b) geographical situation of the site in relation to migration routes of species in

Schedule II;

(c) total area of the site;

(d) number of natural habitat types in Schedule I and species in Schedule II present

on the site;

(e) global ecological value of the site for the biogeographical regions concerned, as

regards both the characteristic of unique aspect of its features and the way they

are combined.

B

Schedule IV

PROTECTED FLORA

Interpretation

1. The abbreviation "spp." following the name of a genus is used to denote all species

within that genus.

2. Other references to taxa higher than genus and/or species are for the purposes of

information or classification only.

3. The abbreviation "(s.l.)", meaning ‘sensu lato’ is used to indicate that the

scientific name is used in its most extended meaning.

4. Where required, scientific synonyms of each species or lower taxon are included

in square brackets after the scientific name. These are included to facilitate

interpretation of the scientific information provided.

5. A number of scientific names are followed by the abbreviations ‘auct. fl. Melit.’

which refers to the scientific name(s) with which that particular taxon is and/or

was recorded in Maltese biodiversity literature; this scientific name is also of legal

value, since in some cases, it represents the only reference to species whose

proper scientific identification is still uncertain.

6. Where available, vernacular names, in both Maltese and English have been

included for each taxon. This information is included for clarification purposes.

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Name

CHLOROPHYTA

Caulerpa ollivieri Dostál

-

Mediterranean Caulerpa

FUCOPHYTA

Cystoseira amentacea Bory de Saint-

Cistosejra Kahla

Rainbow Bladder-Weed

Vincent s.l.

Cystoseira mediterranea Sauvageau

Cistosejra tal-Mediterran

Mediterranean Sea-Fir

Cystoseira spinosa Sauvageau s.l.

(Cistosejra)

(Sea-Fir)

Cystoseira zosteroides C. Agardh

(Cistosejra)

(Sea-Fir)

RHODOPHYTA

Lithophyllum byssoides (Lamarck)

Foslie

Litofillum

Stone-Weed

[= Lithophyllum lichenoides Philippi]

B

Lithophyllum trochanter (Bory) Huve

ex Woelkerling

Litofillum

Stone-Weed

[= L. byssoides auct. fl. Melit. non

(Lamarck) Foslie]

BRYOPHYTA

Petalophyllum ralfsii (Wils.) Nees &

Hepatika; Petalofilla

Liverwort

Gott.

Riella; Hepatika ta’ l-Ghadira

Riella helicophylla (Mont.) Hook.

Liverwort

s-Safra

ASPLENIACEAE

Asplenium ceterach L.

Felci tal-Hitan tas-Sejjieh

Rusty-Back Fern

[= Ceterach officinarum DC.]

Asplenium marinum L.

Felci tal-Bahar

Sea Spleenwort

[= Asplenium lucidum Boccone]

Asplenium sagittatum (DC.) A. J.

Bange

[= A. hemionitis L.; Phyllitis sagittata

Felci tal-Bir

Mule’s Fern

(DC.) Guinea et Heywood;

Scolopendrium sagittatum DC.]

Asplenium scolopendrium L.

Lsien ic-Cerv

Hart’s Tongue-Fern

[= Scolopendrium vulgare Smith]

Asplenium trichomanes L.

Common Spleenwort;

Felci

[= Chamaefilix trichomanes (L.) Farw.]

Maidenhair Spleenwort

CUPRESSACEAE

Tetraclinis articulata (Vahl) Masters

Araar Tree/Alerce

[= Callitris quadrivalvis Venten. ex

Gharghar; Sigra tal-Gharghar

/Sandarac Gum Tree

Rich.]

ARISTOLOCHIACEAE

Aristolochia clusii Lojacono

Papra Selvagga; Aristolokja

Southern Birthwort

[= A. longa auct. fl. Melit. non L.]

ASTERACEAE (=

COMPOSITAE)

Crepis pusilla (Sommier) Merxmüller

Melitella

Maltese Dwarf Hawksbeard

[= Melitella pusilla Sommier]

Palaeocyanus crassifolius (Bertoloni)

Dostál

[= Centaurea crassifolia Bertoloni;

Widnet il-Bahar

Maltese Rock-Centaury

Cheirolophus crassifolius (Bertoloni)

Susanna]

Helichrysum melitense (Pignatti)

Brullo, Pavone et Ronsisvalle

Sempreviva ta’ Ghawdex

Maltese Everlasting

[= Helichrysum rupestre (Rafinesque)

DC. var. melitense Pignatti]

B

Hyoseris frutescens Brullo

[= Hyoseris lucida auct. fl. Melit. non

Zigland ta‘ Ghawdex

Maltese Hyoseris

L.]

Senecio pygmaeus DC.

[= Senecio leucanthemifolius Poiret var. Kubrita Nana

Pygmy Groundsel

pygmaeus (DC.) Fiori]

BRASSICACEAE (=

CRUCIFERAE)

Hymenolobus revelieri (Jordan) Brullo

subsp. sommieri (Pampanini) Brullo

Gargir ta’ Kemmuna

Maltese Hymenolobus

[= Hutchinsia procumbens forma

sommieri Pampanini]

Matthiola incana (L.) R. Brown subsp.

melitensis Brullo, Lanfranco, Pavone et

Gizi ta’ Malta

Maltese Stocks

Ronsisvalle

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

Silene fruticosa L.

Lsien l-Ghasfur tal-Blat

Shrubby Campion

CHENOPODIACEAE

Cremnophyton lanfrancoi Brullo et

Bjanka ta‘ l-Irdum

Maltese Cliff-Orache

Pavone

CISTACEAE

Cistus creticus L. s.l.

Borghom; Cistu Roza

Hoary Rockrose

Cistus monspeliensis L.

Borghom; Cistu Abjad

White Rockrose

CYNOMORIACEAE

Gherq Sinjur; Gherq il-

Cynomorium coccineum L.

Malta Fungus

General; Zobb l-Art

ELATINACEAE

Elatine gussonei (Sommier) Brullo,

Lanfranco, Pavone et Ronsisvalle

Elatine; Harira ta’ l-Ilma

Maltese Waterwort

[= Elatine hydropiper L. var. gussonei

Sommier]

EUPHORBIACEAE

Large Mediterranean

Euphorbia characias L.

Tenghud tal-Hagar

Spurge

Euphorbia melapetala Gasparrini

Tenghud tal-Hagar

Large Sicilian Spurge

OROBANCHACEAE

Orobanche densiflora Salzmann s.l.

Budebbus tar-Ramel

Sand Broomrape

B

RANUNCULACEAE

Ranunculus fontanus C. Presl

[= R. ophioglossifolius var. laevis

Cfolloq ta’ Ghajn Mula

Pond Spearwort

Chabert; R. ophioglossifolius subsp.

fontanus (Presl) Hayek]

Ranunculus ophioglossifolius Villars

Cfolloq ta’ l-Ghadajjar

Adder's Tongue Spearwort

ROSACEAE

Sarcopoterium spinosum (L.) Spach

Tursin il-Ghul Xewwieki

Thorny Burnet

[= Poterium spinosum L.]

RUBIACEAE

Putoria calabrica (L.f.) Persoon s.l.

Putorja

Stinking Madder

[= Asperula calabrica L. fil. s.l.]

SCROPHULARIACEAE

Linaria pseudolaxiflora Lojacono

Papocci ta’ Malta; Xatbet l-

[= Linaria reflexa auct. fl. Melit. non

Maltese Toadflax

Andar ta’ Malta

(L.) Desfontaines]

HYACINTHACEAE

Scilla clusii Parlatore s.l.

Ghansal tal-Gonna

Maltese Squill

[includes Scilla candida Gussone]

Scilla sicula Tineo

[= Scilla peruviana L. var. sicula

Ghansal Ikhal

Sicilian Squill

(Tineo) Fiori]

IRIDACEAE

Iris spp.

Fjurdulis

Irises

Iris pseudopumila Tineo

Bellus

Southern Dwarf Iris

Iris sicula Todaro

[= Iris pallida Lamarck var. sicula

Fjurdulis Sqalli

Sicilian Iris

(Todaro) Baker]

LILIACEAE

Tulipa australis Link

Tulipan Selvagg

Wild Tulip

[= Tulipa sylvestris auct. Melit. non L.]

ORCHIDACEAE

Anacamptis urvilleana Sommier et

Caruana Gatto

Orkida Piramidali ta’ Malta

Maltese Pyramidal Orchid

[= Orchis pyramidalis L. var.

sommeriana Borg]

Barlia robertiana (Loiseleur) Greuter

[= Himantoglossum

Orkida Kbira

Giant Orchid

robertianum(Loiseleur) Delforge]

B

Ophrys apifera Hudson

Nahla

Bee Orchid

[= Ophrys arachnites Miller]

Ophrys bertolonii Moretti

Dubbiena ta’ Bertoloni

Bertoloni‘s Bee Orchid

Ophrys fuciflora (F.W. Schmidt)

Moench

Brimba

Late Spider Orchid

[= Ophrys holosericea auct. fl. Melit.

non (Burm.) Greuter]

Ophrys lacaitae Lojacono

Yellow Spider Orchid;

[= Ophrys oxyrrhynchos subsp.

Brimba Safra

Lacaita‘s Spider Orchid

lacaitae (Lojacono) Del Prete]

Ophrys lunulata Parlatore

Crescent Orchid; Moon

[= Ophrys sphegodes subsp. lunulata

Brimba tal-Qamar

Orchid

(Parlatore) Sundermann]

Ophrys melitensis (Salkowski)

Devillers-Terschuren et Devillers

Brimba Sewda

Maltese Spider Orchid

[= Ophrys sphegodes subsp. melitensis

Salkowski]

Ophrys tenthredinifera Willdenow s.l.

Nahla Kbira

Sawfly Orchid

[= Ophrys tenoreana Lindley s.l.]

Ophrys oxyrrhynchos Todaro

[= Ophrys fuciflora subsp.

Brimba ta’ Sqallija

Beaked Spider Orchid

oxyrrhynchos (Todaro) Soó]

Orchis italica Poiret

Hajja u Mejta tal-Werqa

[= Orchis longicruris Link; O.

Naked-Man Orchid

Fdewxa

undulatifolia Bivona-Bernardi]

Orchis papilionacea L. s.l.

[= Anacamptis papilionacea (L.)

Farfett

Pink Butterfly Orchid

Bateman, Pridgeon & Chase s.l.]

Serapias bergonii E.G. Camus

[= Serapias vomeracea subsp. laxiflora

Orkida ta’ l-Ilsien ta' Lvant

Eastern Ploughshare

(Soó) Gölz et Reinhard]

Serapias lingua L.

Tongue Orchid; Tongue

[= Serapias columnae (Rchb. Fil.)

Orkida ta’ l-Ilsien

Serapias

Lojacono]

Serapias vomeracea (Burmann fil.)

Briquet

Ploughshare; Long-Lipped

Orkida ta’ l-Ilsien Kbir

[= Serapias longipetala (Tenore)

Tongue Orchid

Pollini]

POACEAE

Ampelodesma mauritanica (Poiret)

Durand et Schinz

Dis

Diss

[= Ampelodesma tenax Link]

B

ZANNICHELLIACEAE

Zannichellia melitensis Brullo, Giusso

et Lanfranco

[= Zannichellia palustris auct. fl. Melit.

Harira ta’ l-Ilma

Maltese Horned-Pondweed

non L.; = Z. pedunculata auct. fl. Melit.

non Rchb. in Mössler]

B

Schedule V

PROTECTED FAUNA

Interpretation

1. The abbreviation "spp." following the name of a genus is used to denote all species

within that genus.

2. Other references to taxa higher than genus and/or species are for the purposes of

information or classification only.

3. The abbreviation "(s.l.)", meaning ‘sensu lato’ is used to indicate that the

scientific name is used in its extended meaning.

4. Where required, scientific synonyms of each species or lower taxon are included

in square brackets after the scientific name. These are included to facilitate

interpretation of the scientific information provided.

5. Where available, vernacular names, in both Maltese and English have been

included for each taxon. This information is included for clarification purposes

only.

6. In the case of species followed by an asterisk (*), members responsible for public

security and civil protection may take any necessary steps to ensure that there are

no risks for bathers and for any other person in or at sea.

B

Isem bl-Ingliz/English

Isem Xjentifiku/Scientific Name

Isem Malti/Maltese Name

Name

PORIFERA

Petrobiona massiliana

Sponza Iebsa

Stony Sponge

CNIDARIA

Antipathes spp.

Qroll l-Iswed

Black Coral

Astroides calycularis

Qroll tad-Dell

Star-Coral

Corallium rubrum

Qroll l-Ahmar

Precious Coral;

Sardinian Coral; Red

Coral

CHELICERATA

Roncus melitensis

Skorpjun Falz ta’ Malta

Maltese False-Scorpion

CRUSTACEA

Armadillidium ghardalamensis

Hanzir l-Art ta’ Ghar

G`ar Dalam Woodlouse

Dalam

Potamon fluviatile lanfrancoi

Qabru; Gran` ta’ l-Ilma

Maltese Freshwater Crab

Helu

INSECTA

Alaocyba melitensis

Bumunqar Ghama ta’

Maltese Blind Weevil

Malta

Amaurops mifsudi

Psefalida Ghamja ta’

Maltese Blind Psephalid

Malta

Brachytrupes megacephalus

Grillu tar-Ramel

Sand Cricket

[= Gryllus megacephalus]

Cerambyx cerdo

Susa tal-Ballut

Holm Oak Longhorn

Beetle

Myrmecophilus baronii

Gurat tan-Nemel

Maltese Ant-Locust

Othiorynchus (Arammichnus)

Bumunqar tar-Ramla

Maltese Sand Weevil

ovatulus

Pseudoseriscius cameroni

Strongylognathus insularis

(Maltese Myrmecobiont

Ant)

B

MOLLUSCA

Charonia nodifera

Bronja tal-Fond

Knobbed Triton-Shell

[= Charonia lampas; C.

rubicunda]

Charonia tritonis s.l.

Bronja tal-Midhna

Variegated Triton-Shell

[= Charonia seguenziae; C.

variegata]

Dendropoma petraeum

Bebbuxu tal-Blat

Vermetid Snail

Erosaria spurca

Bahbuha Ttigrata

Spotted Cowrie;

[= Cypraea spurca; Pustularia

Porcelaine Juane

spurca]

Gibbula nivosa

Gibbula ta' Malta

Maltese Top-Shell

[= Trochus nivosus]

Lampedusa imitatrix gattoi

Dussies ta' Filfla

Filfola Door-Snail

[= Lampedusa gattoi]

Lampedusa imitatrix imitatrix

Dussies ta’ Malta

Maltese Door-Snail

[= Clausilia imitatrix]

Lampedusa melitensis

Dussies ta' l-Irdum

Maltese Door-Snail

Lithophaga lithophaga

Tamra; Tamla

Date Mussel

Luria lurida

Bahbuha ta’ l-Ghajnejn

Brown Cowrie;

[= Cypraea lurida; Talparia

Mediterranean Cowrie

lurida]

Mitra zonata

Sigarru

Fusiform Mitre

Pisidium spp.

Arzell ta’ l-Ilma Helu

Pea-Mussels

Pholas dactylus

Tamra Bajda

Common Piddock

Pinna nobilis

Nakkra tal-Harira

Noble Pen-Shell; Fan

Mussel

Pinna rudis

Nakkra tax-Xewk

Rough Pen-Shell

[= Pinna pernula]

Ranella olearia

Bronja

Oil Vessel Triton

[= Agrobuccinum olearium; A.

giganteum]

Schilderia achatidea

Bahbuha

Agate Cowrie

[= Cypraea achatidea; Cypraea

physis; Erronea achatidea]

Tonna galea

Tina tal-Bahar; Sorm il-

Giant Tun;

[= Dolium galea]

Bahar

Mediterranean Tun-

Shell

Trochoidea gharlapsi

Zugraga ta’ l-Irdum

Ghar Lapsi Top Snail

Zonaria pyrum

Bahbuha Hamra

Pear Cowrie

[= Cypraea pyrum; Erronea

/Porcelain Shell

pyrum]

B

ECHINODERMATA

Centrostephanus longispinus

Rizza tax-Xewk Twal

Needle-Spined Sea-

Urchin

Ophidiaster ophidianus

Stilla tal-Bahar; Salib il-

Violet Starfish

Bahar Hamra

ELASMOBRANCHII

Carcharodon carcharias*

Kelb il-Bahar *

Great White Shark*

Cetorhinus maximus

Pixxitonnu

Basking Shark

Mobula mobular

Baqra; Manta; Raja tal-

Devil Ray

Qrun

ACTINOPTERYGII

Aphanius fasciatus

Buzaqq

Maltese Killifish

Hippocampus hippocampus

Ziemel tal-Bahar

Short-Snouted Sea-

[= Hippocampus heptagonus]

Horse

Hippocampus guttulatus

Ziemel tal-Bahar

Long- Snouted Sea-

[= Hippocampus biscuspis]

Horse

AMPHIBIA

Discoglossus pictus

Zring

Painted Frog

REPTILIA

Caretta caretta

Fekruna tal-Bahar

Loggerhead Turtle

Chalcides ocellatus

Xahmet l-Art

Ocellated skink

Chamaeleo chamaeleon

Kamaleonte

Chameleon

Chelonia mydas

Fekruna Hadranija

Green Turtle

Coluber algirus

Serp l-Ahdar

Algerian Whip Snake

Coluber viridiflavus

Serp l-Iswed

Western Whip Snake

Dermochelys coriacea

Fekruna s-Sewda

Leatherback turtle

Elaphe situla

Lifgha

Leopard Snake

Eretmochelys imbricata

Fekruna tat-Tikek

Hawksbill Turtle

Hermodactylus turcicus

Wizgha tad-Djar

Turkish Gecko

Lepidochelys kempii

Fekruna ta’ Kemp

Kemp’s Ridley Turtle

Podarcis filfolensis filfolensis

Gremxula ta’ Filfla

Filfola Wall Lizard

Podarcis filfolensis generalensis

Gremxula ta’ Hagret il-

Fungus Rock Wall

General

Lizard

Podarcis filfolensis kieselbachi

Gremxula tal-Gzejjer

St. Paul’s Island Wall

Lizard

Podarcis filfolensis maltensis

Gremxula; Gremxula ta’

Maltese Wall Lizard

Malta

Tarentola mauritanica

Wizgha tal-Kampanja

Moorish Gecko

Telescopus fallax

Qattus; Teleskopu

Cat Snake

B

CARNIVORA

Monachus monachus

Bumerin; Monka; Foka

Mediterranean Monk

Monaka

Seal

Mustela nivalis

Ballotra

Weasel

CHIROPTERA

Eptesicus serotinus

Serotin

Serotine

[= Vespertilio serotinus]

Miniopterus schreibersi

Schreiber’s Bat;

[= Vespertilio schreibersii]

Farfett il-Lejl ta’ Xrajber

Schreiber’s Bent-

Winged Bat

Myotis blythii punicus

Farfett il-Lejl Widnet il-

Mouse-Eared Bat

[= Myotis punicus]

Gurdien

Myotis capaccinii

Farfett il-Lejl tas-Swaba

Long-Fingered Bat

Twal

Myotis daubentonii

Farfett il-Lejl ta’

Daubenton’s Bat

Daubenton

Myotis myotis

Farfett il-Lejl Widnet il-

Greater Mouse-Eared

Gurdien

Bat

Nyctalus noctula

Noktula

Noctule

[= Vespertilio noctula]

Pipistrellus kuhlii

Pipistrell ta’ Kuhl

Kuhl’s Pipistrelle

[= Vespertilio kuhlii]

Pipistrellus pygmaeus

Pipistrell

Soprano Pipistrelle

[= Pipistrellus pipistrellus p.p.]

Plecotus austriacus

Farfett il-Lejl Widnejh

Grey Long-eared Bat

[= Plecotus auritus meridionalis]

Kbar

Rhinolophus ferrumequinum

Rinolofu l-Kbir; Farfett il-

Greater Horseshoe Bat

[= Vespertilio ferrum-equinum]

Lejl tan-Naghla l-Kbir

Rhinolophus hipposideros

Rinolofu z-Zghir; Farfett

[= Vespertilio hipposideros; V.

Lesser Horseshoe Bat

il-Lejl tan-Naghla z-Zghir

minutus]

Tadarida teniotis

Tadarida; Farfett il-Lejl

European Free-tailed

[= Cephalotes teniotis; Nyctinomus

tad-Denb Twil

Bat

taeniotis]

U l-Friefet il-lejl kollha li jidhru jew dehru fil-Gzejjer Maltin / and all bat species recorded

in the Maltese Islands

CETACEA

Balaenoptera acutorostrata

Balena z-Zghira

Minke Whale

Balaeonoptera borealis

Balena

Sei Whale

Balaenoptera physalus

Balena l-Kbira

Fin Whale; Finback

Whale

Delphinus delphis

Denfil; Denfil Komuni

Common Dolphin

Eubalaena glacialis

Balena

Northern Right Whale

Globicephala melas

Balena s-Sewda

Long-Finned

Pilot

[= Globicephala meleana]

Whale

B

Grampus griseus

Denfil; Denfil ta‘ Risso

Risso‘s Dolphin

Kogia simus

Balena

Dwarf Sperm Whale

Megaptera novaeangliae

Balena tal-Gwienah

Humpback Whale

Mesoplodon densirostris

Balena;

Balena

ta‘

Blainville‘s

Beaked

Blainville

Whale

Orcinus orca

Orka

Killer Whale

Phocoena phocoena

Denfil l-Iswed

Common Porpoise;

Harbour Porpoise

Physeter macrocephalus

Gabdoll

Sperm Whale

[= Physeter catodon]

Pseudorca crassidens

Psewdorka

False Killer Whale

Stenella coeruleoalba

Denfil; Stenella

Striped Dolphin

Steno bredanensis

Denfil tat-Tikek

Rough-Toothed

Dolphin

Tursiops truncatus

Denfil; Denfil Geddumu Bottlenose Dolphin

Qasir

Ziphius cavirostris

Balena;

Balena

ta‘ Cuvier‘s

Beaked

Kuvjer

Whale

INSECTIVORA

Atelerix algirus

Qanfud

Algerian Hedgehog;

[= Erinaceus algirus]

Vagrant Hedgehog

Crocidura sicula

Gurdien ta’ Halqu Twil;

Sicilian Shrew

Gurdien tal-Munqar;

Gurdien tal-Geddum Twil

Suncus etruscus

Gurdien ta’ Halqu Twil;

Pygmy White-Tooted

Gurdien tal-Munqar;

Shrew

Gurdien tal-Geddum Twil