EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
III. Legal protection status
The Coordinated Management is based both on provisions of the international, Federal and
State regulations and on the rules specific to the individual protected areas with the maintenance
and development plans in force. The acts and ordinances in force governing the component
parts are detailed in chapter 5c and 5d of the nomination dossier (reference table 5-3
and 5-4).
The measures and structures proposed are backed and implemented by the involved protected
area administrations and Ministries of the Environment. Locally affected persons will
be involved in the process in case of changes. This Coordinated Management is deemed to
be legally binding by the States.
Legal provisions on nature conservation
Legal provisions on the management of the German component parts
The German component parts are subject to legally binding ordinances (VO: Verordnungen),
that have been decided by the respective Landtag as the supreme board in the corresponding
federal state. In each case, the ordinances are applicable both for the nominated component
part and the surrounding buffer zone, since each nominated component part is embedded
in a larger protected area. Based on the VO, management plans (NLP plan or maintenance
and development plan (PEP)) were drawn up and periodically updated in each protected
area by the respective administration. Should the nomination be successful, the World
Heritage sites will be separately portrayed in the next updates. Alongside with the national
VO, the component parts are also subject to international provisions on protection, in particular
in accordance with the Natura 2000 Directive. The different legal bases are arranged in
table 1 together with the management plans.
Tab. 1: Acts, ordinances, and directives of the nominated component parts (as of 2009)
Nominated
component part
Jasmund (NLP)
Acts, ordinances, plans, etc. Year
Ordinance on the Designation of the Jasmund National (Law Gazette reprint
Park
GDR, no. 1467 of 01
October 10 1990)
Council Directive 92 / 43 / EEC of 21 May 1992 DE 1447-
302 Jasmund
nomination 2004
Ordinance on the Regulation of Hunting in the National Law and Ordinance
Parks of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Gazette Mecklen-
(Nationalpark-Jagdverordnung – NLPJagdVO M-V) burg-WesternPomerania 1998, p. 588, 8
June 1998
Directive on the Treatment of the Forests in the National Official Journal of
Parks of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Mecklenburg-
Western Pomerania
p. 1293, 14 September
2005
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