EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Integrated Management System (IMS)
for the serial Property „Primeval Beech
Forests of the Carpathians and the
Ancient Beech Forests of Germany”
Contents
I. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 2
II. General Objectives ........................................................................................... 4
III. Legal instruments ............................................................................................. 5
IV. Management structure .................................................................................... 10
IV.1 Management coordination ........................................................................... 11
IV.2 Operational management ............................................................................ 12
IV.2.1 Specific objectives ................................................................................. 12
IV.2.2 Practical management mechanisms and measures framework ............. 18
V. Research and monitoring ................................................................................ 21
VI. Management principles ................................................................................... 23
VII. Promotion and educational activities .............................................................. 24
VIII. Mechanisms of the trilateral cooperation (Ukraine-Slovakia-Germany) to
implement the Management System .............................................................. 25
IX. Funding of the Joint Management Committee and the Integrated Management
System ............................................................................................................ 26
Annex 1 to IMS ......................................................................................................... 27
Annex 2 to IMS: Short-term actions .......................................................................... 28
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