DOLOMITES - Annexes 2-8 - Provincia di Udine

NOMINATION OF THE DOLOMITES FOR INSCRIPTION ON THE WORLD NATURAL HERITAGE LIST UNESCO
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ronment by introducing into the plans the contents and landscaping limits laid down by Law No.
1497/1939 and Law No. 431/1985. In particular, with reference to the Dolomites, the “Areas for
environmental protection” include those areas at an altitude of over 1,600 metres, the woods, and
the areas designated as natural parks.
In the provincial territorial development plan, approved by legislation (the first provincial territorial
development plan was approved in 1967, and the third was approved in 2008), instructions are given
for the municipal planning as regards the specific destinations of use of the territory. Among other
things it identifies and delimits the areas designated as natural parkland. It was precisely with the first
provincial territorial development plan, approved in 1967, that the Parco naturale Adamello-Brenta
and the Parco naturale Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino were founded; a specific law (Prov. Law No.
18/1988) was later passed to discipline these Parks, together with their own management plan. As
foreseen by Prov. Law No. 22/1991 and now by Prov. Law No. 1/2008, a consolidated act containing
the provincial provisions on urban planning and protection of the territory, the provincial territorial
development plan is followed hierarchically by the District Coordination Plans, an instrument
on a sopra-municipal scale, and above all by the general urban development plans of the municipal
councils, which are responsible for direct management of the land.
The nominated areas that fall within the territory of the Provincia Autonoma di Trento, and their
relative buffer zones, are entirely disciplined by the provincial territorial development plan, according
to modalities and functions aimed at conservation and protection. All the proposed areas are
included in the “Areas for Environmental Protection” defined by the Environmental System of the
Provincial Land Planning, to ensure protection of the landscape and environment of the provincial
territory. In the “structural framework” of the Provincial Land Planning, the said nominated areas
and their relative buffer zones are also included in the “Pasture Areas, “Wooded Areas” and “High
integrity Areas”, respectively disciplined by articles 39, 40 and 28 of the Plan provisions, based on
criteria of strict environmental protection, and which are required to be faithfully reflected in the
general urban planning of the municipalities.
The new provincial territorial Plan, approved in May 2008, identifies the “invariants”, permanent
elements of the territory subjects to special protection to ensure the sustainable and correct development
of the province. Between the invariants are covered elements geological and geomorphological,
the areas of the nomination for the Unesco List, the hydrographic net, the forest owned by the
province, the properties representative for the high landscape and cultural values. These elements are
governed by the article 8 of the Plan’s rules, that prescribes the conservation and valorization of these
areas and that, particulary, subjects the regulations of the areas of the Dolomites nominated for the
Unesco List to the programme agreement approved by the five provinces.
Planning instruments relative to specific sectors complete the framework laid down by the provincial
territorial development plan. The Parks plan has been mentioned, prepared pursuant to Prov. Law
No. 18/1988 “Natural Parks Law” that establishes the guidelines for the administrative and management
structure of the natural parks, not only based on the concept of conserving the natural and
environmental aspects of the territory that are in danger, but also on the maintenance of the traditional
uses to which the land has always been put by the civil population, by which man has gained
a livelihood in a symbiotic relationship with the mountain, the woods, and the alpine pastures, and
guaranteeing the local communities direct management of the territory. Other instruments must be
borne in mind, considering the wide extension of the areas of the Province covered by woods and
forests, i.e. the general forestry plan approved by the local Provincial government, in order to define
the large scale choices for the management of the wooded areas and, within it, the management plans
for the municipalities and for private citizens, containing the rules and regulations for management
of the woods and for felling.
Regarding the glacier of Dolomites it’s important to note that the new provincial territorial plan also
prescribes that a special protection for the glaciers. The article 28 – “High integrity Areas” – includes