EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Footnotes
*) § 5 para. 1 amended by the Decree of 20 November 1992.
§ 6 *)
Prohibitions
(1) All actions are forbidden which could destroy, damage or change the national park or
its components or which could lead to any long-term damage or destruction. In particular, it
is forbidden
1. to construct or alter any building structures and advertising media, even if no
building permission is required for this; this also applies for the erection of booths
and of mobile or fixed sales kiosks,
2. to take any coastal protection measures,
3. to remove any components of the soil, to carry out explosions, drilling or
excavations, to import or pile up materials of any kind or to change the relief of the
land,
4. to drive motor vehicles of any type or caravans off the carriageways of the roads
and pathways designated for public traffic and the signposted parking and picnic
areas or to park such vehicles there, to ride or drive harnessed teams outside the
specifically designated pathways, and to cycle on marked walking paths and
outside the specifically designed paths and roads,
5. to use other mechanically powered vehicles,
6. to leave the pathways with the exception of the pebble beach between Sassnitz
and Lohme,
7. to import, remove or damage plants and parts thereof, or to adversely affect their
continued existence,
8. to angle or fish,
9. to release animals or pursue wild animals, to feed them, to disturb them wantonly,
to trap or kill them or to remove, damage or destroy their development forms or
their nesting, breeding or living habitats or places to which they flee,
10. to change natural water courses and areas of water, their banks and their water
drains or to remove water beyond what is used locally for drinking and common
consumption or to lower the groundwater level,
11. to apply fertilisers, plant pesticides, other chemicals such as slurry, sewage sludge
or waste water,
12. to spend the night outside permanent buildings, to camp, to park camper vans or
caravans,
13. to start or land aircraft of any type or to operate model flying devices,
14. to operate water vehicles including models or water sports equipment within 500 m
from the bank,
15. to affix, remove or change plaques containing images or writing, memorial stones
and path markings without the permission of the National Parks Office,
16. to throw away or tip waste of any kind, to wash or maintain vehicles or to pollute
the landscape including areas of water in any other way,
17. to allow dogs to run freely,
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