Reka Skat   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000508)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 399.5 hectares

Location:
1. District: Vratsa, Municipality: Byala Slatina, Locality: Galiche, Tarnava, Аltimir
2. District: Vratsa, Municipality: Mizia, Locality: Krushovitsa, Lipnitsa, Mizia, Saraevo, Voyvodovo

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Vratsa - ul."Ekzarh Josif" 81

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-49 from 17.01.2024 2-2-508-49-2024

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Protection and maintenance of the type of natural habitat specified in item 2.1, the habitats of the species specified in item 2.2, their populations and distribution within the boundaries of the zone, to achieve and maintain their favorable nature conservation status in the Continental biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of the natural habitats with codes 3260, 3270, 6250 *, 91E0 * and 91F0;
3. Improvement of habitats of species Testudo hermanni;
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: 1530 * Embryonic shifting dunes; 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho- Batrachion; 3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri and Bidention p.p.; 6250 * Pannonic loess steppic grasslands; 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);
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals – Lutra lutra, Mesocricetus newtoni; Amphibians and reptiles – Bombina bombina, Triturus dobrogicus, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni; Fish – Cobitis taenia, Barbus meridionalis, Rhodeus amarus; Intervertebrates – Lucanus cervus, Unio crassus.

Current prohibitions and regimes:
1. It is prohibited conducting races with motor vehicles outside the existing roads and the places regulated for that;
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 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 construction of barriers to the river course hydrotechnical facilities, not allowing access to the viewing of the species according to item 2 up and down along the river;
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. 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;
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 or the use of selective methods to combat invasive alien species;
10. 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);
11. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
12. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
13. It is prohibited logging in riparian natural forests and riparian tree strips in the 15-meter zone around permanent watercourses, with the exception of: for construction, repair and maintenance of facilities (elements) of the technical infrastructure; to prevent hazards, endangering the life and health of people; in disasters and accidents; to maintain/improve the natural habitats and the habitats of the species under item 2; the cases of implementation of investment proposals, approved or agreed upon in accordance with Chapter Six of the Law on Environmental Protection and/or Art. 31 of Biodiversity Act at the date of entry into force of the order;
14. It is prohibited flooding of drying tributaries with falls and landmasses.

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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