13.1.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 10/103 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 18 November 2011 adopting a third updated list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region (notified under document C(2011) 8187) (2012/10/EV) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (*), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 4(2) thereof, Whereas: (1) The Pannonian biogeographical region referred to in Article 1(c)(iii) of Directive 92[43/EEC comprises parts of the Union territories of the Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia and the Union territory of Hungary as specified in the Dbiogeographical map approved on 20 April 2005 by the Committee set up by Article 20 of that Directive, hereinafter ‘the Habitats Committee’. (2) It is necessary in the context of a process which was initiated in 1995 to make further progress in the actual establishment of the Natura 2000 network, which is an essential element of the protection of biodi- versity in the Union. (3)  The initial list and the first two updated lists of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeo- graphical region, within the meaning of Directive 92/43[EEC, were adopted by Commission Decisions 2008/26/EC (2), 2009/90/EC () and 2011/86[EU (4). On the basis of Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive 92/43[EEC, the Member State concerned shall designate the sites included in the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region as special areas of conservation as soon as possible and within 6 years at most, establishing conservation priorities and the necessary conservation measures. (4)  In the context of a dynamic adaptation of the Natura 2000 network, the lists of sites of Community () O] L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. () O] L 12, 15.1.2008, p. 678. () O] L 43, 13.2.2009, p. 1. (4 O] L 40, 12.2.2011, p. 300. importance are reviewed. A third update of the Pannonian list is therefore necessary. On the one hand, the third update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeo- graphical region is necessary in order to include addi- tional sites that have been proposed since 2009 by the Member States as sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 92[43[EEC. For these additional sites, the obligations resulting from Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive 92/43/EEC should apply as soon as possible and within 6 years at most from the adoption of the third updated list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region. On the other hand, the third update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeo- graphical region is necessary in order to reflect any changes in site-related information submitted by the Member States following the adoption of the initial and the first two updated Union lists. In that sense, the third updated list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian  biogeographical region  constitutes a consolidated version of the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region. It should be stressed that, for any site included in the third update of the list of sites of Community importance for the Pannonian biogeographical region, the obligations resulting from Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive 92/43[EEC should apply as soon as possible and within 6 years at most following the adoption of the list of sites of Community importance in which the site was included for the first time. For the Pannonian biogeographical region, lists of sites proposed as sites of Community importance within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 92/43/EEC have been transmitted to the Commission between May 2004 and October 2010 by the Member States concerned in accordance with Article 4(1) of that Directive. The lists of proposed sites were accompanied by information on each site, supplied in the format estab- lished by Commission Decision 97/266/EC  of 18 December 1996 concerning a site information format for proposed Natura 2000 sites (°). () O] L 107, 24.4.1997, p. 1.