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- 1. A site for data collection (‘monitoring site’) shall be a…
- 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States may u…
- 3. Member States shall collect data on the abundance and dive…
- 4. Member States shall select the monitoring sites by applyin…
- 5. The procedure for stratified random sampling of sites shal…
- 6. When applying the stratified random sampling of monitoring…
- 7. Member States shall draw up a list of the monitoring sites…
- 8. By way of derogation from paragraph 7, second subparagraph…
- 9. Member States shall inform the Commission and the European…
4.Member States shall select the monitoring sites by applying stratified random sampling. The stratification shall be by biogeographical region and by the following ecosystem types:
(a)agricultural ecosystems;
(b)forest ecosystems;
(c)other ecosystems.
In addition to the stratification referred to in the first subparagraph, Member States may apply stratification by NUTS regions, classes of altitude, protection status or more refined categories of land use or land cover.The number of sites in each stratum shall be proportional to the geographical share of that stratum in the terrestrial territory of a given Member State.
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