EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

territorial development plans and any plans concerning spatial arrangement of land and
land use. The aforementioned General supraregional system approved of the
representation of the The East Carpathian biogeographical province by the provincial
core area (biocentre) Poloniny (5 680 ha) and regional core area (biocentre) Vihorlat
(app. 5.650 ha). The selected core areas can be connected to the system of ecological
corridors (biocorridors), as well as biocorridors connecting the two biocentres. ). The
notion „biocentre“corresponds to the „core area“, the notion „biocorridor“ responds
approximatelly to the „ecological corridor“.
– Territorial Plan of the Prešov Self-Governing Region (Annex 10), approved by the
Government provison No. 216/1998 Coll.), which reflects the GESTES principles;
The care for nominated properties is incorporated into management plans elaborated by
the respective authority (NP Poloniny, Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area) in the form of
"protected area maintenance programmes" (§54, sec.3-4 of the Act 543/2002), which are
prepared in compliance with §21 of the Regulation No. 24/2003 of the Ministry of the
Environment of the Slovak Republic that represents executive legal norm to this act, and
approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic. The protected area maintenance
programmes establish a binding framework for the elaboration of forest management plans.
Thus, every nominated property is individually covered by an approved forest management
plan (FMP) for a 10-year period, which stipulates non-intervention policy within the
nominated primeval forests. In the buffer zone, the FMP allows for measures aimed to support
natural processes if necessary, using the close-to-nature forestry approach.
5.e Property management plan or other management system
See Annex 2 for Integrated Management Plan of the transnational nominated property.
5.f Sources and levels of finance
Financing of the Carpathian Biosphere Reserve and Uzhansky National Park are
provided by the State Budget of Ukraine and with the support of their own income. Their
budget in 2004 was 3 500 000 UAH (Ukrainian hryvnyas), approx. 700 000,− USD as of the
current rate of exchange. Logistic is performed with the help of budget assignations and with
the help of their own incomes received form some commercial activity. Amount of financing
and Plan of measures on nature protection are approved every year by the Minister for
Environmental Protection of Ukraine.
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