EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

132 NOMINATION DOSSIER "ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Tab. 5.4: Organisation of spatial
planning in the Länder
Protection of the outstanding
universal value of the
nominated component
parts is made sure by an
effi cient trilateral management
system.
Land Number and
designation of the
planning regions
Mecklenburg-
Western
Pomerania
Agency responsible for
regional planning
4 (planning regions) regional planning
associations (with offi ce at the
regional planning authorities)
Brandenburg 5 (regional planning
areas)
Hesse 3 (administrative
districts)
regional planning
associations
regional assemblies
(at the regional
administrative authorities)
Thuringia 4 (planning regions) regional planning
associations
(offi ce at the State
Administration Offi ce)
5.e Property management
plan or other management
system
All German partners as well as the Ukrainian
and Slovak partners representing the
existing World Heritage Property are well
aware of the outstanding universal value
of the World Heritage Property “Primeval
Beech Forests of the Carpathians” and the
nominated “Ancient Beech Forests of
Germany”. Due to this responsibility, they
jointly undertake to preserve those for present
and future generations. Based on this
thoroughly shared understanding of the
property the conservation of the outstanding
universal value and the integrity of
the property and the nominated component
parts is already secured and will be
secured in the future by an eff ective trilateral
management system.
Th is aimes at protecting the evolutionary
and biological processes in accordance
with the criterion applied for in chapter 3.
Trendsetting for this is a harmonised general
principle for the protection of a common
World Heritage Property (annex
7.3.1)
Plans
regional
development
programmes
regional plans
regional plans
regional
development
programmes
Th e German Länder have corroborated
their responsibility within the scope of
statements and decisions in favour of the
World Heritage extention nomination
(annexes 5.4, 5.5).
Th e close German-Slovakian-Ukrainian
collaboration constitutes the nec essary
political framework for an overriding trilateral
management. Th ere have been trilateral
meetings at least on an annual basis as well
as extensive expert contacts and exchange
since 2007 (annex 5.1). Th e meetings were
used to draw up a joint work programme
and initiate its implementation. Th e focus
has so far been on the required harmonisation
of the extension nomination with the
existing Ukrainian-Slovakian World
Natural Heritage Property “Primeval Beech
Forests of the Carpathians”.
Th e creation of a trilateral management
system was of particular importance here.
Integrating the management of the nominated
component parts, it takes account of
their particular qualities. It has been set up
to provide the overriding framework for a
joint eff ort to protect the serial property and
is in line with the outstand ing universal value
of the beech forests and their protection.