EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

statements, e. g. informing them on the value of water regulation and carbon sequestration
services provided to the society through the maintenance of forest estates and possibly
increased through specific, nature-based forest management methods, expressed for instance
in terms of quality water yield and carbon sequestration in forest soils; a provision of
quantitative data on savings due possible substitution of labour through natural processes and
owing to an increased forest stability; setting-up of incentive schemes in cooperation with
other stakeholders in the forest-society chain (inc. utilities and safety), aimed at benefiting
sensible forest management (through tailored forest stock insurance schemes, shares on
income from providing customers with utilities (water, hydropower, carbon stock quatas,
etc.). Such approach is appropriate in rural, comparatively disadvantaged regions.
5) Formal Recognition of Joint World Heritage Values by State Properties
Both in Ukraine and in Slovakia, there is a possibility that given the scarcity of World
Heritage Sites in both countries, dedicated state legislation will be adopted to acknowledge
and highlight the superior status of the transboundary serial nomination. Such is the case of
Banská Štiavnica, a World Cultural Heritage site in the Slovak Republic (Law 100/2001 Coll.
On Banská Štiavnca and its surroundings).
But given the existent legislation frameworks in both countries, such moves are only
symbolical. In terms of formal acknowledgement, the nominated properties (Slovak part) will
be, if the nomination is successful) automatically upgraded as “protected areas of international
significance” and their conservation management plans will be adjusted accordingly in
compliance with the Law on Nature Protection No, 543/2002 Coll., § 54, Section 4). That
conservation regime supercedes any other provisions.
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