EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

forests patterns; at the same time also serve the call for enhancement of landscape
ecological stability not only on national but also global level;
(iv) To use natural heritage for enhancement of ecological and environmental
education, awareness of primeval forests and their intrinsic, innate value in the
local communities, nations and the global community; educational activities shall
be carefully chosen to maintain integrity and conservation of the existing sites, to
preserve their naturalness and uniqueness and to avoid both their devastation or
degradation.
(v) To allow for the sustainable use of natural resources in the broader region through
the support of traditional crafts, products and ecotourism, the latter having the
beech primeval forests as one of its attractors, as a source of income for the nearby
communities, based on a proper sensitization of the local and foreign visitors over
their value through multiple communication channels, including the internet page,
provision of guided walks, eductional trails, interactive learning, films, press
articles an other forms.
III. Legal instruments
This chapter lays out valid legal instruments applied to ensure meeting the above
objectives in areas within and outside the serial nomination properties perimeter. An effective
coordination of the legal instruments use and implementation represents one of the main tasks
of the Joint Management Committee (hereinafter JMC). JMC itself has no legal enforcement
powers, but they are sufficiently exercised by institutions represented in it, mainly the
ministries of environment of both countries, national park and biosphere reserve
administrations, State nature conservancy and municipal governments. The legal instruments
are divided into two groups and several sub-groups in this chapter. The first group includes
legal instruments that ensure in a thorough and consequent manner the conservation of the
nominated properties and partly enable also their possible extension.
The second group establishes a legal instruments framework that enables the embedding
of the integrated management plan objectives into a complex territorial planning and their
implementation through the Landscape ecological planning, because the principal questions
asked in the planning process is: What are the valuable elements in the landscape worth
protection? Then the land use is adjusted according to this priority.
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