EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.1
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
zone of a Biosphere Reserve). During the preparation phase a Steering Group (Lenkungsgruppe)
was established. This group shall become the institutionalized body for the management
of the German nominated component parts.
The integrated management system is based on both existing and planned instruments and
mechanisms supposed to ensure and promote the long-term conservation and extension by
the German nomination of the “Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians” as a serial property.
Parts of this IMS have therefore a legally binding character while others present recommendations
negotiated and approved by all stakeholders.
The Integrated Management of the serial World Heritage Property “Beech primeval forest of
the Carpathians” located in the Ukraine and the Slovak Republic is organised on two mutually
interlinked levels. Each component part (first management level) has a management
plan based on a strict non-intervention policy. State parties guarantee the strictest level of
protection for the inscribed property (Ia management regime acc. to IUCN) and the monitoring
aimed at preventing possible anthropogenic damage or disturbance on the legal premises
given in 4 b). The main aim is to leave the component parts to their spontaneous selfregulating
development, free of anthropogenic intervention. Current buffer zones can be subject
to regulatory management measures aimed to secure and enhance ecological stability of
forest stands.
Each of the German component parts, nominated as extension to the existing World Heritage
Property, have legally approved management and monitoring plans in place following their
status as National park (4 component parts) and as a core zone of a Biosphere Reserve (1
component part). All protection regimes are in line with the IUCN category II criteria. Aim of
the management is the protection and conservation of the integrity and biodiversity of the
outstanding beech forests. These management plans are geared to leave the component
parts to their spontaneous self-regulating development, free of anthropogenic intervention.
The monitoring is linked to these aims, too. Due to Natura2000 regulations additional monitoring
processes apply to the German component parts.
On its second level, the Integrated Management covers the overall management of the serial
property as a whole with specific objectives, legal instruments and an appropriate management
structure listed below.
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