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Ropotamo   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0001001)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:

Map of the object


Area: 98204.78 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Primorsko, Locality: Novo Panicharevo, Primorsko, Veselie, Yasna polyana
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Sozopol, Locality: Krushevets, Sozopol
3. District: Burgas, Municipality: Tsarevo, Locality: Lozenets

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Burgas - ul."Perustica" 67,et.3,p.k.219

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-1042 from 17.12.2021 2-2-1001-1042-2021

Ordinance for change:

1. Change in the area - increase with Decision No.660 from 08.11.2013
2. Define a specific aims with Ordinance No.РД-727 from 28.09.2023
3. Change in the area - increase with Ordinance No.РД-727 from 28.09.2023

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of natural habitats types under item 2.1, habitats referred to item 2.2. species, their populations and distribution within the area to achieve and maintain their favorable conservation status in Black sea biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 1150*, 1530*, 2110, 2120, 2130*, 2180, 2190, 6220*, 62A0, 6430, 91E0*, 91F0, 91M0 and 92A0;
3. Improvement of habitats of species Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Emys orbicularis and Elaphe situla;
4. If necessary, improvement of the condition or restoration of types of natural habitats refered in item 2.1, habitats of the species refered in item 2.2 and their populations.

Objects of protection (species or habitats):
1. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 1 from Biological Diversity Act: 1110 Sandbanks which are slightly covered by sea water all the time; 1130 Estuaries 1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide; 1150 *Coastal lagoons; 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays; 1170 Communities of brown, red or green algae attached to rocky substrates (Reefs) ; 1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines; 1240 Vegetated sea cliffs of the Mediterranean coasts with endemicLimonium; 1310 Salicornia and other annuals colonizing mud and sand; 1410 Mediterranean salt meadows; 1530 *Pannonic salt steppes and salt marshes; 2110 Embryonic shifting dunes; 2120 Shifting dunes along the shoreline with Ammophila arenaria ("white dunes"); 2130 *Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ("grey dunes"); 2180 Wooded dunes; 2190 Humid dune slacks; 3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition; 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion; 6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (*important orchid habitats); 6220 * Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea; 62A0 Eastern sub-Mediterranean dry grasslands; 6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels; 6510 Lowland hay meadows; 8220 Siliceous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 8330 Submerged or partially submerged sea caves; 91AA * Eastern white oak woods; 91E0 * Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91F0 Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris); 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 91Z0 Moesian silver lime woods; 92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba riparian galleries; 92D0 Southern riparian galleries and thickets (Nerio-Tamaricetea and Securinegion tinctoriae);
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Rhinolophus euryale, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Barbastella barbastellus, Miniopterus schreibersii, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis blythii, Myotis capaccinii, Myotis emarginatus, Myotis myotis, Canis lupus, Lutra lutra, Vormela peregusna, Lynx lynx, Tursiops truncatus, Phocoena phocoena; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina bombina, Triturus karelinii, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca, Emys orbicularis, Mauremys caspica, Elaphe sauromates, Elaphe situla; Fish - Alosa immaculata, Alosa tanaica, Alburnus schischkovi, Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia, Misgurnus fossilis; Intervertebrates - Bolbelasmus unicornis, Osmoderma eremita, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Lucanus cervus, Rosalia alpina, Lycaena dispar, Euphydryas aurinia, Dioszeghyana schmidtii, Euplagia (Callimorpha) quadripunctaria, Paracaloptenus caloptenoides, Anisus vorticulus, Unio crassus;

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads;
2. It is prohibited movement of motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs and buggies off existing roads in non-urban areas. The prohibition does not apply to routes for the movement of the listed motor vehicles determined on the basis of a normative act, as well as in case of disasters, emergencies and for carrying out fire-fighting, emergency, control and rescue activities;
3. It is prohibited to drainage of coastal floodplains of rivers, lakes,swamps and other natural water bodies, changes in the hydromorphological regime through drainage, removal of sediments, correction, barricading of rivers, except in cases in urban areas and in cases of flood danger, which may lead to a risk to human life and health or the occurrence of material damage, in case of disasters and accidents and to improve the condition of the natural habitats and the habitats of the species under item 2;
4. It is prohibited damage and destruction of natural vegetation in the coastal beaches and indunes outside the active beach area, except in the case of removal of invasive and non-native species as well as in the cases of implementation of eligible investment proposals approved by environmental legislation;
5. It is prohibited the use of bottom trawling and dredging means, disposal of dredging masses and re-ballasting of ships in the sea areas in the zone;
6. It is forbidden to construct artificial underwater reefs and islands on habitats subject to conservation in the marine areas of the zone;
7. It is prohibited to change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
8. It is prohibited to plow and afforest meadows, barren lands and other unforested forest territories within the boundaries of non-forest natural habitats under item 2.1 except in cases of proven need for protection against erosion and flood rain;
9. It is prohibited to remove landscape features (borders, vital single trees and groups of trees, traditional strips occupied by shrub and tree vegetation among lands under cultivation, protective forest belts, stone fences and hedges), when using agricultural land as such, except in cases to removal of invasive alien species of trees and shrubs;
10. It is prohibited the prospecting for minerals (construction and stone materials), creating new and expanding concession areas for extraction of minerals (construction and stone materials); prohibition does not apply in cases where the date of publication of the order in the "Official Gazette" has started a procedure for granting permits for prospecting and / or exploration and / or the concession for extraction under Subsurface Resources Act (SRA) and Concessions Act, or a procedure for their coordination under Chapter Six of the Law on environmental protection and / or art. 31 of the Biological Diversity Act or an application for registration of a commercial discovery;
11. It is prohibited the use of fertilizers, soil improvers, biologically active substances, nutrient substrates and plant protection products that do not meet the requirements of the Plant Protection Act;
12. It is prohibited the use of mineral fertilizers in meadows, pastures, grasslands, abandoned agricultural lands and forest areas, as well as plant protection products of professional category of use in these areas except for calamity, epiphytosis, epizootic or epidemic;
13. It is prohibited to use of organic sludge from industrial and other waters and household waste for introduction into agricultural land without permission from the specialized bodies of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry and when the concentration of heavy metals, metalloids and persistent organic pollutants in sludge exceeds background concentrations according to Annex № 1 of Ordinance № 3 of 2008 on the norms for permissible content of harmful substances in soils (SG, issue 71 of 2008);
14. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
15. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
16. It is prohibited carrying out felling in riparian natural forests and riparian tree strips in the 15-meter zone around permanent watercourses, except for the needs of facilities (elements) of the technical infrastructure, for prevention of dangers endangering human life and health, in case of disasters and accidents, for maintenance / improvement of natural habitats and habitats of the species under item 2;
17. It is prohibited extraction of wood and biomass in forests in the old age phase, except in cases of damage of more than 50% of the area of the respective forest in the old age phase due to natural disasters and calamities; in old age forests, through which existing forest roads and other infrastructure objects pass, if proven necessary, felling of single dry, damaged, endangered or obstructing the safe movement of people and vehicles or the normal functioning of infrastructure objects trees is allowed;
18. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Managed Nature Reserve: Velyov Vir (Vodnite Lilii)
2. Natural Monument: Nos Agalina
3. Natural Monument: Pyasachni Dyuni - Mestnost Alepu
4. Natural Monument: Pyasachni Dyuni mezhdu gr. Primorsko i Mestnost Perla
5. Natural Monument: Skalnite Obrazuvania,Fiordite I Tyulenovata Peshtera V Mestnost Maslen Nos
6. Protected Site: Beglik tash - Ropotamo
7. Protected Site: Blatoto Alepu
8. Protected Site: Stamopolu
9. Reserve: Ropotamo
10. PZ under the Bird Directive: Bakarlaka
11. PZ under the Bird Directive: Kompleks Ropotamo


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