EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.2.7
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
B NATIONAL PARK PLAN 2008 -– STATUS ANALYSIS E
§ 8
Restrictions
(1) In the National Park all activities which can lead to destruction, damage or change of the protective area and its components
or to lasting interference or disturbance, are forbidden.
(2) Activities for the purposes of paragraph 1 are in particular:
1. producing, widening or changing physical structures for the purposes of §2 paragraph 1 of the Hesse building
code, even if the measures do not need approval according to building regulations or have been given license
after other statutory regulations,
2. the exploitation or profit from mineral resources or other soil components, by the use of blasting or drilling or the
change of ground structures,
3. attaching or putting up of inscriptions, posters, picture boards or written boards,
4. changing, removing or creation of bodies of water, in particular changing of watercourses, water surfaces or pools
including their banks as well as changing of in and outflows water bodies or draining of ground water levels,
marshes or other wetlands or the extraction of water over the normal use of man.
5. damaging or removing plants or plant parts,
6. affecting wild animals, including fish in ponds, willfully disturbing, the imitating their sounds, searching for, taking
photos or filming nests or homes, or recording sounds at such places, attaching devices to catch them, to injure or
to kill or to take away her pupae, larvae, eggs, nests or other broods or homes or to damage them,
7. introducing plants or plant parts or the release of animals,
8. breaking up meadows, pastures or fallow land or the realization of drainage measures,
9. fertilizing and liming, application of herbicide on areas belonging to the state,
10. camps, bathing or camping, caravans, making noise, lighting fire, using boats or model ships, take off or landing
of aircraft of any kind
11. driving or parking cars and bicycles beyond the ways permitted for them,
12. using of sledge dogs or allowing dogs to run free, or
13. carrying out commercial activities.
§ 9
Exceptions
The following are excluded from the restrictions §8, regardless of third party rights:
1. measures by the National Park Authority for the carrying out its protective goals,
2. the care of meadows under in §8 paragraph 2 No. 7 to 9 called restrictions,
3. arrangements in fulfilment of an order of information or educational order from the National Park Authority,
4. scientific investigations and researches under attention of § 5 paragraph 2,
5. the use, establishment or change of the physical structures which serve the fulfilment of the protective purpose of this
order,
6. measures which are necessary for the operation of existing assessing and disposal facilities and telecommunications,
7. Operation, servicing, maintenance and repair of the pumping storage power station Waldeck I and II, its secondary
structures and the funicular railway,
8. Use and maintenance of the Banfe pond,
9. using cars on routes by employees or representatives of authorities in exercise of their official duties,
10. Measures for game population control,
11. exercising third party rights which exist at the time of the coming into force of this order, and
12. the re-construction physical structures.
§ 10
Exemption
Exemption from bans and orders of this order is covered by § 30 b of the Hesse nature conservation law.
§ 11
National Park Authority
(1) A National Park Authority Kellerwald-Edersee is arranged. It comes under the legal supervision and professional supervision
of the Ministry of forests and nature conservation and under the official supervision of state company HESSEN-FORST.
(2) The National Park Authority perceives in particular the following tasks:
1. the production and implementation of the National Park Plan under §4 paragraph 1,
2. regulation of visitor's traffic and recreational traffic,
3. the management, maintenance and the operation of the equipment serving the National Park,
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