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Frontiers of the Roman Empire – Ripa Pannonica in Hungary (RPH) Nomination statement
Section 3. The National Regional Development Plan includes the structural plans for the country as well
as the regional zones of the country and the regulations related to these.
Section 4. (1) The regulations related to land use and construction in the country’s towns and individual
regions must be framed in accordance with the provisions of this law.
Section 14/B The World Heritage and tentative World Heritage sites or historic town districts must
be counted as areas to be administered as a high priority from a cultural heritage standpoint in the
zones in the highlighted regional and county area development plans, and must be defined through the
delimitation of the affected town’s administrative territory.
An appropriate border for the actual extent of the zones for the above sites must be determined in the
town development plan.
Considering that in some cases the individual sites of the World Heritage site extend into several towns,
the provision in the law related to this is extremely important:
Chapter V, section 16/B (1) For the administration – defined in law – of shared town development and
town planning duties that are included in the zone for areas that can be jointly planned a combined
simplified town structural plan may be prepared.
(2) The sections related to the individual towns in the combined simplified town structural plans are
adopted through ordinances by the affected town governments.
The law also contains the obligation to designate buffer zones:
Chapter VI, section 21 (5) In the town structural plan, the regulatory plan and the local building
regulations the border of the townscape preservation district must be designated, which contains the areas
that are valuable to the landscape and are to be administered as a high priority from a cultural heritage
standpoint, areas of the ecological network, nature conservation areas under national or local protection
and their surroundings, as well as important character defining areas for the appearance of the town.
The law protects World Heritage sites and tentative World Heritage sites
with special zoning provisions:
Chapter VI, section 22/A (1) In the zone of World Heritage and tentative World Heritage sites the method
and extent of land use must be in harmony with the objectives defined in the management plan.
(2) In this zone, new surface mining operations may not be introduced and existing surface mining
operations may not be expanded.
(3) In this zone, networks and structures for transportation infrastructure must be located so as not to
damage the character of the cultural heritage, and so as to preserve the site’s unity and to contribute to
the assertion of its appearance.
(4) In this zone, public utility lines and accompanying public utility structures must be located in a
manner that integrates into the landscape, and that utilizes technical solutions that do not impede the
preservation of the World Heritage sites, including the placement of lines underground.
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