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Policies and Procedures
Any organisation needs a suite of standard policy statements and, as a consequence of those stated policies, a series of procedures to implement them.
For the purposes of ERCCIS, the following definitions apply:
A 'policy' is a clear public statement of the principles that ERCCIS wishes to abide by. This will provide all ERCCIS stakeholders and partners visibility of ERCCIS’ position on particular issues.
A 'procedure' is a description of how, practically, ERCCIS implements its policies. Procedures are mainly aimed at ERCCIS staff, volunteers and others directly involved with ERCCIS, rather than data providers and users.
The table below provides the definitive list of ERCCIS Policies and Procedures.
| Code | Policy | Procedure |
| A. Disseminating Information |
| 1 | Supply of Data – Funding Partners | |
| 2 | Supply of Data - Consultants | |
| 3 | Wildlife Information Service | Desk Study Methodology |
| 4 | Charging Policy | Annual Review of Charges |
| 5 | ERCCIS Website | |
| 6 | NBN Gateway | Uploading Data to NBN Gateway |
| 7 | Privacy | |
| B. Collecting and Collating Information |
| 1 | SLA/MoA/MoU Policy | SLA/MoA/MoU Template |
| 2 | Records – Key Principles | |
| 3 | Record Validation | Key Species Validation |
| 4 | Liaison with Recording Community | |
| 5 | Recorder Workshops | |
| 6 | Prioritisation of Record Input | |
| C. Data Management |
| 1 | Data Ownership/Acquisition | |
| 2 | Dataset Management | |
| 3 | ERICA Management | |
| 4 | Metadata | Metadata |
| 5 | Data Access | |
| 6 | GIS (ArcGIS) | |
| D. Management, Administration and Resource |
| 1 | ERCCIS 3 Year Development Plan |
| 2 | ERCCIS 3 Year Budget Forecast |
| 3 | ERCCIS Annual Workplan |
| 4 | Volunteers |
| E. Projects |
| 1 | Project Development | Project Management |
