Kamchiiska i Emenska planina   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000133)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 63678.46 hectares

Location:
1. District: Burgas, Municipality: Nesebar, Locality: Koznitsa, Priseltsi
2. District: Burgas, Municipality: Pomorie, Locality: Kozichino
3. District: Burgas, Municipality: Ruen, Locality: Bilka, Daskotna, Dobra polyana, Dobromir, Dropla, Kamenyak, Mrezhichko, Pripek, Rechitsa, Rozhden, Rudina, Snezha, Sredna mahala, Topchiysko, Yasenovo, Zaimchevo
4. District: Varna, Municipality: Byala, Locality: Dyulino, Gospodinovo, Popovich
5. District: Varna, Municipality: Dalgopol, Locality: Tsonevo, Аsparuhovo
6. District: Varna, Municipality: Dolni chiflik, Locality: Bardarevo, Bulair, Dolni chiflik, Golitsa, Goren chiflik, Grozdyovo, Krivini, Pchelnik, Rudnik, Solnik, Staro Oryahovo, Yunets

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
1. Blagoevgrad - ul."Svoboda" № 1
2. Varna - ul."Jan Palah" 4

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-992 from 10.12.2020 2-2-133-992-2020

Ordinance for change:

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 the relevant biogeographical regions;
2. Increase the contribution of the protected area to the area of natural habitats with codes 6110*, 6210 (*important orchid habitats), 6220*, 8210 and 8230 in the Continental and Black sea biogeographical regions;
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (*important orchid habitats), 6220*, 8210, 8230, 91E0*, 91F0, 91G0*, 91H0*, 91M0, 91S0* and 91Z0 in the both biogeographical regions;
4. Improvement of the structure and functions of the natural habitat with code 6110 * in the part of the protected area falling within the Black Sea biogeographical region;
5. mprovement of the structure and functions of the natural habitat with code 6110 * in the part of the protected area falling within the Continental biogeographical region;
6. Improvement of habitats of species Triturus karelinii, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni and Testudo graeca in both biogeographical regions;
7. Improvement of habitats of species Myotis bechsteinii in the part of the protected area falling within the Continental biogeographical region;
8. 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: 6110* Rupicolous calcareous or basophilic grasslands of the Alysso-Sedion albi; 6210 Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (*important orchid sites); 6220* Pseudo-steppe with grasses and annuals of the Thero-Brachypodietea; 8210 Calcareous rocky slopes with chasmophytic vegetation; 8230 Siliceous rock with pioneer vegetation of the Sedo-Scleranthion or of the Sedo albi-Veronicion dillenii; 8310 Caves not open to the public; 91E0* Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 9180* Forests of slopes, screes and ravines Tilio-Acerion ; 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; 91H0* Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak –sessile oak forests; 91S0* Oriental beech forests; 91Z0 Moesian silver lime woods;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Canis lupus, Lutra lutra , Vormela peregusna, Mustela eversmanii, Spermophilus citellus, Myotis myotis, Myotis bechsteinii, Myotis blythii, Myotis emarginatus, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, Rhinolophus euryale, Barbastella barbastellus; Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina variegata, Triturus karelinii, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish - Barbus meridionalis, Alburnus mandrensis, Barbus bergi, Cobitis taenia, Rhodeus amarus; Intervertebrates - Rosalia alpina, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Euplagia Callimorpha quadripunctaria, Coenagrion ornatum, Vertigo moulinsiana, Vertigo angustior, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads in non-urban areas;
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 change the way of permanent use, plowing, afforestation and conversion into permanent plantations of meadows, pastures and grassland, when using agricultural lands as such;
4. 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;
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. 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;
8. 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);
9. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
10. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
11. It is prohibited to make a fire, improvements, electrification, conduct of business and sports activities in the caves and caves' entrances, as well as to break, damage, to collect or to remove of rock and cave formations, and also to divide the cave's entrance or its individual galleries in a way that prevents passing of species subject to protection under item 2.2.1;
12. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
13. 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;
14. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
15. It is prohibited carrying out felling in natural habitat with code 91E0 * and 91F0, 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;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Managed Nature Reserve: Kirov Dol
2. Managed Nature Reserve: Valchi Prohod
3. Managed Nature Reserve: Varbov Dol
4. Natural Monument: Chudnite Skali
5. Natural Monument: Skalno Obrazuvanie Profesora
6. Natural Monument: Skalnoto obrazuvanie Kostenurkata
7. Natural Monument: Skalnoto obrazuvanie Svinska Glava
8. Natural Monument: Vodopadite v mestnostta Sini Vir
9. Protected Site: Debelets
10. Protected Site: Gorska Baraka
11. Protected Site: Kozya Reka
12. Protected Site: Mihov Dol
13. Protected Site: Orlov Kamak
14. Protected Site: Pregrada
15. Protected Site: Solnik
16. PZ under the Bird Directive: Kamchiiska planina

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
The data in the registry are updated regularly