This initiative contributes to implementing action 8 of the Commission's 2017 EU action plan for nature, people and the economy: “identify with Member States and other stakeholders best practices on investment for extractive operations and for land rehabilitation and restoration by non-energy mineral extractive industry, in order to complement the existing guidance on non-energy mineral extractive industry in Natura 2000”.

We have grouped the case studies according to the main type of best practice they illustrate, with a focus on the following topics

• Partnerships, stakeholder cooperation
• Impact assessment and mitigation
• Rehabilitation: habitat restoration and improving species conservation

Documents

• New case studies: non-energy mineral extraction in relation to Natura 2000 (2019)
• Guidance: non-energy mineral extraction and Natura 2000 (2011)
• More guidance and summaries in several EU languages