EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

protected areas and through the territorial plans respecting the principles of the National
ECONET of the Slovak Republic (finished and approved – Annex No. 4) and the ECONET of
Ukraine (under preparation – Annex No. 7). In both cases, changes will be also reflected in
the forest management plans elaborated and periodically renewed for the concerned areas
beginning 2006 (see the Action plan).
The overall implementation of the above principles is guaranteed by the legal authority of
organisations represented in the JMC and the ministries of environment or environmental
protection of both Ukraine and Slovakia. In the limit cases and after a thorough analysis of
viable alternatives, expropriation including a corresponding compensation and the
implementation of proposed management will be proposed by the JMC, pursued and carried
through by the national ministries represented in it (The Ministry of Environmental Protection
of Ukraine, The Ministry of Environment of The Slovak Republic).
The practical management also draws to a large extent on the experience of the JMC
members and among them of the Association of the Carpathian National Parks and Reserves
(ACANAP) in particular. Since its establishment in 1992 it has collected, exchanged ant
utilized information and knowledge of ecosystem research through workshops, conferences
and symposiums with the purpose to help to solve conceptual problems of the nature
protection, management and monitoring of Carpathian Mountains 6 .
V. Research and monitoring
The research and monitoring of the serial nomination properties, the buffer zones and
connecting ecological corridors will be coordinated by the Joint Management Committee.
6 The Proceedings from this International Scientific Conferences have been published :
− cc from the Conference „Topic Problems on Protection of Frontier National Parks“ held in Pieniny
National Park, Slovakia, on July 1992
− from the Conference „Forest Protection in Protected Areas of Carpathians“ held in Bükk National Park,
Hungary, on September 1993
− from the Conference „Research and Management of the Carpathian Natural and Primeval Forests“ held
in Bieszczady National Park, Poland, on October 1994
− from the Conference „Methods of the Monitoring of Nature in Carpathian National Park and Reserves“
held in Carpathian Biosphere Reserve, Rakhiv, Ukraine, on October 1995
− from the Conference „Rangers in Carpathian National Parks and Protected Areas“ held in Aggtelek
National park, Hungary, on September 1996
− from the Conference „International Aspects of Study and Conservation of the Carpathians Biodiversity“
held in Rakhiv, Ukraine, on September 1997
− from the Conference „Issues of Sustainable Development in the Carpathian Region“ held in Rakhiv,
Ukraine, on October 1998
− from the Conference „Mountains and People“ held in Rakhiv, Ukraine, on October 2002.
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