Rila Monastery Nature Park Management Plan - part - usaid

February 2004
The Reserve shall include the following areas:
1. From the Kostenets State Forestry Enterprise, Kostenets Municipality,
according to the 1984 forest development project, sections: 58 – а, л; 59 through 61;
64 through 67; 69 – г, е through и, 5; 70 – except а, г, к, 1, 5; 71; 132 through 139;
342; 343 – except 1; 344 – except 1; 345; 346; 347 – except в, 1; 348 – б, 4; 349 – а;
350 – а, б, 1; 351; 352; 353 – except с, 1; 354 – а, 2; 355 – а, б; 356 – а, б; 357 – а,
б; 358 – а, 3; 359 – а, в, 3; 360 – а, б, 2; 361 – except 3, 5, with total area of 2,206.2
ha.
2. The high mountain pasture above Lake Belmeken with total area of 42.4 ha.
ІІ. Rila Monastery Forest Reserve, Rila Municipality, Sofia District – from
3,445.6 ha to 3,676.5 ha.
The Reserve shall be expanded with the following sections of the Rila
Monastery State Forestry Enterprise according to the 1990 forest development
project:: 46 – а, б, в, г, е,1, 2, 3, 4, 5; 47 – а, б, в, г, д, е, и, 1, 2, 3; 48 – а, б, в, г, д,
м, н, п, 1, 2 with total area of 230.9 ha.
All activities disturbing the unique nature of the territories annexed to the Ibar
and Rila Monastery Reserves shall be prohibited.
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Pursuant to article 22 of the Nature Protection Act, this Order revokes:
1. Order No. 99 dated February 12, 1985 of the Committee for Protection of
the Environment concerning the Goliam Skakavets Reserve, which becomes part of
the Central Rila Reserve.
2. Order No. 2319 dated September 14, 1961 of the Chief Department of
Forests at the Council of Ministers concerning the Marichini Lakes Reserve, which
becomes part of the Central Rila Reserve.
3. Order No. 358 dated February 9, 1973 of the Ministry of Forests and
Protection of the Environment concerning the Skakavets Reserve.
The existing reserves and their buffer zones, natural landmarks and protected
areas in the Rila Nature Park shall retain their regimes.
Not later than one year from the promulgation of this order in the State
Gazette, the Committee of Forests shall make provisions for the marking of park
boundaries and of the new borders of the reserves on the site with permanent and
clearly visible signs.
The new protected sites and the changes under this Order shall be entered into
the State Registry of Protected Nature Sites.
Any violator of this order shall be punished according to Article 31 of the
Administrative Violations and Penalties Act, unless subject to heavier sanction.
This Order shall become effective as of its promulgation in the State Gazette.
Minister
Rila Monastery Nature Park
Management Plan (Draft) – Appendices
2004 - 2013
V. Vasilev
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