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The Commission has, on several occasions, looked into the correct transposition of the habitats directive and the birds directive into Finnish legislation. At present the Commission is of the opinion that the Articles referring to the procedure of establishing the Natura 2000 network have been correctly transposed.
As the Natura 2000 network has caused a considerable amount of controversy in Finland, the Commission has looked into the national procedure for site selection and has in past years notified Finland of some shortcomings, both in the number of sites to be protected and the quality of the data. Finland has endeavoured to address these shortcomings. The present quality of the data is acceptable to the Commission.
The complaints from Finland seem to contain some misinterpretations of the evaluation principles. The Commission bases its evaluations on the latest submitted data, not on the oldest information. The Commission is aware that some landowners in Finland have been dissatisfied with the Natura 2000 proposals. The Commission has been informed that all landowners have had the possibility to see the proposals and to lodge complaints against them before Finland officially submitted the proposals to the Commission.
The Finnish courts have examined the complaints on a case-by-case basis, considering each time the validity of the data. The majority of the complaints have been rejected by the courts. The directive does not establish any requirements for consultation at the national level and thus, in respect of the principle of subsidiarity, it has been for individual Member States to exercise their responsibilities, taking account of national laws and procedures.
The Commission's concerns are therefore limited to respect the scientific selection criteria as set out in the directive. Although the Commission can understand that in these cases the dissatisfaction might persist, it cannot conclude that the Finnish authorities have arbitrarily misinterpreted the rules or proceeded in a way that has been contradictory to those rules."@en1
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