Vartopski dol (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000518)
Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive
Area: 1018.85 hectares Location:
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District: Vidin, Municipality: Dimovo, Locality: Darzhanitsa, Lagoshevtsi, Аrchar
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District: Vidin, Municipality: Vidin, Locality: Vartop
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-580 from 27.06.2024
2-2-518-580-2024
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. Increase the contribution of the protected area to the area of natural habitats with codes 6210 (* important orchid habitats), 6430 and 6510 in the Continental biogeographical region;
3. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 6210 (*important orhid habitats), 6430, 6510, 91E0*, 91G0*, 91H0* and 91M0;
4. Improvement of habitats of species Lutra lutra), (Barbus meridionalis, Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia, Sabanejewia balcanica, Morimus funereus and Unio crassus;
5. 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: 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);
6430 Hydrophilous tall herb fringe communities of plains and of the montane to alpine levels;
6510 Lowland hay meadows ;
7220 * Petrifying springs with tufa formation (Cratoneurion);
8310 Caves not open to the public;
91E0 * Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae);
91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus;
91H0 * Pannonian woods with Quercus pubescens;
91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Vormela peregusna, Lutra lutra, Myotis myotis, Myotis blythii, Rhinolophus hipposideros;
Amphibians and reptiles - Bombina bombina, Bombina variegata, Triturus cristatus, Triturus dobrogicus, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni;
Fish- Barbus meridionalis, Rhodeus amarus, Cobitis taenia, Sabanejewia balcanica;
Inrevertebrates - Lucanus cervus, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Rosalia alpina, Coenagrion ornatum, Theodoxus transversalis, Unio crassus;
Plants - Himantoglossum caprinum.
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 2.2 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 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;
7. 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;
8. 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;
9. 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;
10. 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;
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 carrying out felling in natural habitat with code 91E0 *, 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; 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 the Law on Biological Diversity as of the date of entry into force of the order;
15. 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;
16. It is prohibited visits to unimproved caves during the breeding period of bats and during the hibernation period - from December 1 to July 31, with the exception of those for scientific purposes, in the presence of a permit under Art. 49, para. 1 of the Biological Diversity Act.
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