EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - UNESCO World Heritage

NOMINATION DOSSIER ANNEX 7.3.2
"ANCIENT BEECH FORESTS OF GERMANY"
Trilateral management
The close German-Slovakian-Ukrainian collaboration constitutes the necessary political
framework for an overriding trilateral management.
There have been trilateral meetings on an at least annual basis as well as extensive expert
contacts and exchanges since 2007. The trilateral meetings were used to draw up a joint
work programme the implementation of which has already been initiated. In particular the coordination
with the existing Ukrainian-Slovakian Natural World Heritage site “Primeval Beech
Forests of the Carpathians” required for the extension nomination was carried out within the
scope of the trilateral cooperation. The coordination of an overriding trilateral management
was of particular importance here.
A Joint Management Committee (JMC) has been instituted as trilateral coordinating body
which meets at regular intervals. Should the nomination be successful, the German extension
nomination will be represented in the JMC through the institutions indicated in the trilateral
management system.
Subject-specific working groups will be established as needed, which can be national, binational
or even trinational. Integration of the various local stakeholders is ensured by the existing
national park advisory boards and support organisations.
Fig. 2: Levels in the trilateral management of the Natural World Heritage site
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