Natura 2000 is a network of protected areas covering Europe's most valuable and threatened species and habitats. It is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world, extending across all 28 EU countries, both on land and at sea. The sites within Natura 2000 are designated under the Birds and the Habitats Directives.

A significant landscape is a natural or cultivated area of​​great landscape value and biodiversity and / or geodiversity or a landscape of preserved unique features characteristic of a particular area. In a significant landscape, interventions and activities that do not violate the characteristics for which it was proclaimed are allowed.