EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.5
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
a whole. It shall in particular contain the measures that are necessary to fulfil the protection
aim defined in § 3, including diversion of visitors, and must be taken into account in all
planning and administrative procedures whose decisions could affect the nature and
landscape in the area of the National Park. The Care and Development Plan must be agreed
with the Board of Trustees and the local authorities whose sovereignty is affected and must
be updated as necessary, generally after ten years. The Care and Development Plan and its
update require the approval of the Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Protection and the
Environment.
(2) The National Park Administration shall lay down, in a programme of work based on the
Care and Development Plan, the individual measures that are to be carried out for the
development of the National Park and for its care and monitoring.
(3) The plans and objectives of the National Park shall, in so far as they are suitable, be
integrated as objectives for regional and town and country planning into the Town and
Country Development Programme, the regional plans and other specialist plans and be
shown in these.
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Prohibitions
(1) In the National Park, all actions are forbidden which could destroy, damage, change or
lastingly disturb the area, its natural balance or any of its individual components.
(2) In particular, it is forbidden
1. to carry out mining or gravel excavation, to extract or otherwise remove any soil
components, to undertake excavations, drilling, blasting or backfilling, to bring in materials or
to change the structure of the soil in any other way,
2. to expand above-ground water courses,
3. to use chemical wood protectants, plant protectants or other chemicals, fertilisers or soil
improvement agents, slurry or sewage sludge,
4. to expand existing drainage ditches or to create new drainage ditches,
5. to convert deciduous forest into pine forest or to reforest greenland,
6. to disturb to change the habitats (biotopes) of the plants and animals,
7. to cut off, pick, tear off or down, unearth, damage, destroy or take away any wild plants or
parts or development forms thereof,
8. to prey on, wilfully disturb, trap, injure or kill wild animals or to damage, destroy or remove
from nature their development forms, their nesting, breeding or living habitats or places to
which they flee, to feed them or to affix devices suitable for the trapping of wild animals,
9. to abandon animals or plant plants,
10. to collect herbs, berries or mushrooms unless otherwise stated in § 12,
11. to build or make major changes to structural installations, to erect or install advertising
media, signs with images or written texts, memorial crosses or route markings of any type or
to erect mobile or fixed sales stands,
12. to build or extend rail ways or roads, to create or widen paths or to change their surfaces,
13. to set up above-ground power cables, pipelines or other lines including any support
masts required,
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