8.2.2011 Official Journal of the European Union L 33/1 II (Non-legislative acts) DECISIONS COMMISSION DECISION of 10 January 2011 adopting, pursuant to Council Directive 92/43[EEC, a fourth updated list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region (notified under document C(2010) 9663) (2011/62[EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European actual establishment of the Natura 2000 network, which is an essential element of the protection of biodiversity in the Union. Union, 3) The initial list and the first three updated lists of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region, within the meaning of Directive 92[43/EEC, were adopted by Commission Decisions 2004/69/EC (3), 2008/218/EC (¥, 2009/91/EC () and 2010/42JEU (%). Having regard to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 On the basis of Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and 92/43./EEC., the Member State conce.rned shall des1gnz.1te flora (), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 4(2) the sites included in the list of sites of Community thereof, importance for the Alpine biogeographical region as special areas of conservation as soon as possible and within six years at most, establishing conservation priorities and the necessary conservation measures. Whereas: 4)  In the context of a dynamic adaptation of the Natura 2000 network, the lists of sites of Community importance are reviewed. A fourth update of the (1)  The Alpine biogeographical region referred to in Alpine List is therefore necessary. Article 1(c)(ili) of Directive 92/43/EEC comprises the Union territories of the Alps (Austria, Italy, Germany, France and Slovenia), the Pyrenees (France and Spain), (5)  On the one hand, the fourth update of the list of sites of ) the Apennine mountains (Italy), the northern Fenno- scandian mountains (Sweden and Finland), the Carpathian mountains (Poland, Slovakia and Romania) and the Balkan, Rila, Pirin, Rhodope and the Sashtinska Sredna Gora mountains (Bulgaria) as specified in the biogeographical map approved on 25 April 2005 by the Committee set up by Article 20 of that Directive, hereinafter the ‘Habitats Committee’. It is necessary in the context of a process which was initiated in 1995 to make further progress in the () O] L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7. Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region is necessary in order to include additional sites that have been proposed since 2008 by the Member States as sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeographical region within the meaning of Article 1 of Directive 92/43/EEC. The obligations resulting from Articles 4(4) and 6(1) of Directive 92/43/EEC are applicable as soon as possible and within six years at most from the adoption of the fourth updated list of sites of Community importance for the Alpine biogeo- graphical region. 14, 21.1.2004, p. 21. 77, 19.3.2008, p. 106. () OJL () OJL () O] L 43, 13.2.2009, p. 21. () OJL 30, 2.2.2010, p. 1.