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Records of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Catalogue reference: KR

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Records of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee relating to the provision of guidance on nature conservation issues. Comprises: Annual reports, KR 1Minutes and papers, KR 5Publications (UK nature conservation series), KR 2Publications (reports...

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Reference

KR

Title
Records of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Date

1989-2019

Description

Records of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee relating to the provision of guidance on nature conservation issues.

Comprises:

  • Annual reports, KR 1
  • Minutes and papers, KR 5
  • Publications (UK nature conservation series), KR 2
  • Publications (reports series), KR 6
  • Project publications, KR 3
  • Occasional publications, KR 4
  • The Marine Nature Conservation Review, KR 7
  • Datasets of selection of special areas of conservation in the UK are in KR 8
  • Ramsar Wetlands Sites dataset in KR 9
  • For series created for regularly archived websites, please see the separate Websites Division

Related material

For records of English Nature and its predecessors see FT

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Joint Nature Conservation Committee, 1990-1990
Physical description

19 series

Access conditions

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 1999 Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Administrative / biographical background

The Joint Nature Conservation Committee was established under the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and began work on 1 April 1991. Its brief is to advise the Secretary of State for the Environment on United Kingdom and international nature conservation issues. It was also responsible for providing guidance to the Nature Conservancy Council for England (from 1991 known as English Nature), Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland, the Countryside Council for Wales and the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland on the maintenance of standards for species and habitat conservation.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C312/

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Records of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee