Tsar Petrovo   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000340)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 1908.74 hectares

Location:
1. District: Vidin, Municipality: Kula, Locality: Topolovets, Tsar-Petrovo
2. District: Vidin, Municipality: Vidin, Locality: Bela Rada, Druzhba, Peshakovo, Voynitsa

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Montana - ul. "Julius Irasek"4 p.k.55

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-1046 from 17.12.2020 2-2-340-1046-2020

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 Continental biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 91I0 * and 91M0;
3. Improvement of habitats of species Testudo hermanni and Emys orbicularis;
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: 8310 Caves not open to the public; 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91I0 * Euro-Siberian steppic woods with Quercus spp.; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 91Z0 Moesian silver lime woods;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Vormela peregusna, Myotis myotis, Myotis capaccinii, Myotis blythii, Rhinolophus еuryale, Rhinolophus hipposideros, Rhinolophus mehelyi); Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus cristatus, Bombina variegata, Bombina bombina, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni; Fish - Sabanejewia aurata; Intervertebrates - Rosalia alpina, Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Dioszeghyana schmidtii, Theodoxus transversalis, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. 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;
2. It is prohibited conducting speleological research during the breeding season of bats - from March 1 to June 30;
3. 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;
4. It is prohibited to permanently store and deposit waste;
5. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads;
6. 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;
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 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;
9. 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;
10. 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;
11. 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);
12. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
13. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
14. It is prohibited to drainage of coastal floodplains of rivers 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.
15. 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;
16. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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