EU Habitat Conservation Status Records — EEA BISE

Keyless. Pay per record. The official conservation condition of each protected habitat, by country and biogeographic region — assessment labels verbatim.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) habitat-conservation-status dataset into clean, per-record data — the official conservation condition of Europe's protected habitats, country by country and region by region. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per status assessment, structured for conservation-status and biodiversity-reporting analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Habitats Directive Article 17, each member state assesses the conservation status of every habitat type of Union interest in each biogeographic region. The EEA's Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) compiles those assessments. This actor reads the by-member-state table and delivers one record per habitat / country / region: the Natura 2000 habitat code (code_2000), the country, the biogeographic region, the area name, and the assessment CONCLUSION carried verbatim (the label — Favourable, Unfavourable-Inadequate, Unfavourable-Bad, Unknown — and its conclusion code). It is the CONDITION layer of Europe's habitat reporting — how each habitat is doing, where.

Who buys this and for what job

• Conservation-status analysts tracking habitat condition by country and biogeographic region
• Biodiversity-reporting teams assembling Article 17 status pictures across Europe
• Researchers comparing habitat conservation status across regions and member states
• Data engineers who want the BISE habitat-conservation-status table as clean rows from a keyless source.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. These are reported values and labels as filed — not a compliance verdict.

Habitat / country / region grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a habitat's conservation-status assessment in one country and region — a condition line, never a person. The habitat is a code, the country and region are place labels; there is no contact, operator, assessor, or responsible-person field in the source, and none is selected or emitted. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "1110:BE:Marine Atlantic",
  "habitat_code_2000": "1110",
  "country_code": "BE",
  "region_name": "Marine Atlantic",
  "area_name_en": "Belgium",
  "assessment_label": "Poor",
  "assessment_conclusion_code": "U1",
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — habitat conservation status by member state",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) — habitat conservation status assessments. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE).",
  "disclaimer": "Official habitat conservation-status (condition) assessments by country and biogeographic region, at habitat / country / region grain from the EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) habitat-conservation-status-by-member-state dataset (Habitats Directive Article 17 reporting). Each record names the Natura 2000 habitat code (code_2000), the country, the biogeographic region, and the assessment CONCLUSION carried VERBATIM (the label such as Favourable / Unfavourable-Inadequate / Unfavourable-Bad and its conclusion code). This is the CONDITION layer — how a habitat is doing — distinct from the conservation MEASURES taken and from where it occurs. There is no contact, operator, assessor, or responsible-person field in the source, and none is selected or emitted; a person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:32:53Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
habitat_status_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per status assessment. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "4060:AT:Alpine",
  "habitat_code_2000": "4060",
  "country_code": "AT",
  "region_name": "Alpine",
  "area_name_en": "Austria",
  "assessment_label": "Good",
  "assessment_conclusion_code": "FV",
  "source": "EEA Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) \u2014 habitat conservation status by member state",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-25T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one status assessment. Identity: record_id (habitat code : country : region), habitat_code_2000, country_code, region_name, and area_name_en. Assessment: assessment_label (verbatim) and assessment_conclusion_code. Provenance travels on every record: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It pages the BISE habitat-conservation-status table (filtered to your optional countryCode and your maxRecords ceiling), and flattens each row to one record — carrying every value and label verbatim, never anything person-shaped — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The table holds on the order of 3,246 rows. Because each record carries the habitat_code_2000, the country_code, and the biogeographic region, segmenting is straightforward. Pull one slice, or the whole table to seed a warehouse.

Working with the data

The assessments are a condition ledger, and the fields make them comparable. Because every record pairs a habitat_code_2000 with an assessment_label in a named country_code and region_name, an analyst can map which habitats are Favourable versus Unfavourable across a country's biogeographic regions, or track one habitat's status across every member state that reports it. The conclusion code travels alongside the label so the four-way status can be filtered directly. Because the biogeographic region is carried explicitly, the same habitat can be compared where it is doing well against where it is struggling — a distinction the headline country figure hides — and rolling the conclusions up by region or by habitat group produces the exact cross-tabulation that Article 17 status summaries are built on. The whole table is small enough to pull in one bounded run per country, or in full to seed a European habitat-status matrix.

Identifiers and joins

Every record carries the habitat_code_2000 and country_code, keying each status to the companion conservation-MEASURES cell (what is being done) and the protected-site habitat-inventory cell (where the habitat occurs) — so condition, intervention, and occurrence line up on a shared habitat code.

Status versus measures versus occurrence

This cell is the CONDITION half of a deliberate pair with the conservation-measures cell: measures say what is being done for a habitat, status says how it is faring. Keeping them separate lets a buyer pay for the layer they need, and joining the two on the habitat code shows whether the measures applied to a habitat track with its reported condition — the core question of Article 17 reporting — without stitching two datasets together by hand.

Cost guidance

One habitat_status_record per delivered row: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode to keep runs bounded. 1,000 rows is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As reported. Values, labels, and flags are as filed; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• A label, not a verdict. These are reported classifications and outcomes, not an independent compliance or conservation assessment.
• Acknowledge the EEA. The acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is distinct from eu-habitat-conservation-measure-records (the interventions taken) and from the protected-site inventory cells (where a habitat occurs) — this cell carries the conservation STATUS (the condition); condition vs interventions vs occurrence. Its specific job is the BISE habitat conservation status by country and biogeographic region.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Habitat Conservation Status Records — EEA BISE
• EU Protected Site Negative Impact Records — EEA BISE
• EU Species Legal Protection Records — EEA BISE
• EU Protected Site Species Inventory Records — EEA BISE
• EU Protected Site Habitat Inventory Records — EEA BISE

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. Habitat / country / region grain; habitat is a code, country and region are place labels; no contact/operator/assessor/responsible-person field selected or emitted. No natural-person data of any kind. Values and labels as filed, not a compliance verdict.