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February 2004<br />

1.3 Legal status of the protected area and the cultural and<br />

historical sites within, under applicable legislation<br />

The present territory of <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong> was once <strong>part</strong> of <strong>Rila</strong> People’s<br />

<strong>Park</strong>, as designated by Order # 114/24.02.1992 of the Ministry of the Environment.<br />

Following the entry into force of the Protected Areas Act (PAA), <strong>Rila</strong> People’s <strong>Park</strong><br />

was re-named <strong>Rila</strong> National <strong>Park</strong>. Then, by Order # RD-310/26.06.2000 of the<br />

Ministry of the Environment and Waters, that portion of <strong>Rila</strong> National <strong>Park</strong> which<br />

falls within the territory of <strong>Rila</strong> Municipality was re-categorized as <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong><br />

<strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong> (Appendix 5).<br />

Pursuant to the Protected Areas Act (§ 2 subpara 1) the territory around <strong>Rila</strong><br />

<strong>Monastery</strong> is designated a <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong>. By force of subpara 2 of the same paragraph<br />

(2), “in the <strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> for <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong>, the provisions of<br />

Art. 21 shall apply”. Essentially, the cited paragraph of PAA postulates that <strong>Rila</strong><br />

<strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong> be managed in the same way as a National <strong>Park</strong>.<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> Forest Reserve was designated by Order # 307/10.04.1986 (SG,<br />

#34/29.04.1986) of the Committee for the Protection of the Environment under the<br />

Council of Ministers. By virtue of the said order, the then state-owned forest around<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong>, which had been declared a protected area back in 1966 (Order #<br />

407/9.02.1966, promulgated in State Gazette # 3/1966) was transformed into a forest<br />

reserve with a total area of 2,586.7 ha.<br />

In 1992, the status of this territory as was re-confirmed a forest reserve within the<br />

then <strong>Rila</strong> People’s <strong>Park</strong> (Order # 114/24.02.1992, promulgated in State Gazette #<br />

20/10.03.1992). By force of Order # RD-310/26.06.2000 the regime of a Forest<br />

Reserve was retained, corresponsing to a category I protected area under the IUCN<br />

classification scale. A historical review of the protected area status of <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong><br />

Forest Reserve is presented in Table 2.<br />

Table 2. Historical review of the protected area status of <strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> Forest<br />

Reserve<br />

Year/State Gazette<br />

issue<br />

Order # Status Area (ha)<br />

1966/SG # 3 407/9.02.1966 Protected area 2,586.7<br />

1986/SG # 34 307/10.04.1986 Reserve 3,445.6<br />

1992/SG # 20 114/24.02.1992 Reserve 3,676.5<br />

2000/SG # 56 RD-310/26.06.2000 Reserve 3,676.5<br />

Located in the nature park boundaries are buildings declared by the Ministry of<br />

Culture as monuments of culture pursuant to the List of Declared Monuments of<br />

Culture in the territory of the Holy <strong>Monastery</strong> of <strong>Rila</strong> – SG, # 73/08.09.1992. These<br />

are:<br />

The Complex of the St. John of <strong>Rila</strong> Tomb declared a complex architectural,<br />

artistic and historical monument of culture, also an asset of national significance. It<br />

has the following boundaries: western, northwestern and northeastern, along the<br />

respective outer contours of the rock face; southeastern, along the boundary of the<br />

plot connecting the north-easternmost and the south-westernmost points of the<br />

concave rock face);<br />

<strong>Rila</strong> <strong>Monastery</strong> <strong>Nature</strong> <strong>Park</strong><br />

<strong>Management</strong> <strong>Plan</strong> -Draft<br />

2004 - 2013<br />

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