WFS Service - Soil artificialization is the primary cause of the degradation of natural environments and biodiversity. In France, the regulatory system whose objective is to avoid damage to the environment, to reduce those which could not be sufficiently avoided and to compensate for the effects which could not be avoided or sufficiently reduced is known as the ERC sequence name ("avoid, reduce, compensate"). When biodiversity is degraded by a development project, and if the measures aimed at reducing or avoiding the impacts of this project are insufficient, compensatory measures must be implemented. A compensatory measure for damage to biodiversity intervenes on the residual impact of a development project, when all possible measures have been implemented to avoid and then reduce the negative impacts on biodiversity. It aims to offer a positive counterpart to a non-reducible harmful impact caused by a project, so as to maintain biodiversity in an equivalent or better state compared to that observed before its implementation. Compensatory measures take the form of actions to rehabilitate, restore or create environments. They must be supplemented by conservation management measures (e.g. extensive grazing, maintenance of hedges, etc.) to ensure that the environmental quality of the environments is maintained. This provision of compensatory measures for damage to biodiversity provides access to the location of approximately 3,000 measures prescribed in administrative acts. The information characterizing each measurement is described there in the attribute data. Only environmental compensatory measures (within the meaning of L.122-1-III of the Environment Code) are represented (for example, collective agricultural compensation or forestry compensation are not concerned). Mapping concerns the measures prescribed in administrative acts. The absence of measurements on the map does not mean the absence of measurements on the ground. Some measures prescribed before the publication of the law of August 8, 2016 for the recovery of biodiversity may not be present. Some decrees written before 2016 do not provide information on the geolocation of the measurements and therefore cannot be mapped precisely but only at the level of the municipality. Regular updating (old administrative acts or addition of recently prescribed measures) is planned.
