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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

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NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 5.1<br />

"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"<br />

- Determining the Terms of Reference for a trilateral working group and, based on<br />

these terms, establishing the working group (Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)<br />

- Compiling a list of experts/institutions which are concerned with the topic of<br />

protecting beech forests (Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)<br />

- Advice by Slovakian and Ukrainian experts on the preparation of the German<br />

nomination file<br />

- Compiling a list of relevant support institutions/programmes/funds which may<br />

possibly fund projects in the three countries (Germany)<br />

- Cooperation within the framework of the existing German management project<br />

(exchange of information/experience, possibly expert visits)<br />

- Organising a trilateral meeting of experts on integrated bilateral/trilateral<br />

management (incl. monitoring) of a joint <strong>World</strong> <strong>Heritage</strong> Property (Germany:<br />

Thuringia)<br />

- Determining whether a training seminar for protected area managers from the<br />

three countries can be carried out on the invitation of Germany; if so: the seminar<br />

will take place at the International Academy for Nature Conservation (INA) of the<br />

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) on the Isle of Vilm (Germany)<br />

- Inviting experts from the three countries to an international meeting on European<br />

beech forests in autumn 2009 at the INA on Vilm (Germany: BfN)<br />

- Providing advice to Ukraine on establishing a concept for setting up a training<br />

centre in the vicinity of the Carpathian biosphere reserve (Germany: BfN)<br />

- Interlinking websites as a first joint activity with regard to public relations<br />

(Germany, Slovak Republic, Ukraine)<br />

- Looking into the possibility of carrying out a joint protected areas-related project<br />

with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena on the topic of "Carbon<br />

balance of unmanaged beech forests" (Germany: Thuringia)<br />

- Sending out information on "Spatial planning/land use planning" (Slovak Republic)<br />

- Sending out information on a "beech forest tour" as potential project for ecotourism<br />

(Germany: Länder)<br />

It was further agreed to proceed as follows:<br />

- By the end of December 2008, if possible, Germany will send the following documents to<br />

the environment ministers of the Slovak Republic and Ukraine for coordination:<br />

- the draft minutes for the second bilateral meeting, including the work programme<br />

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