Galata   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000103)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 3853.57 hectares

Location:
1. District: Varna, Municipality: Varna, Locality: Varna
2. District: Varna, Municipality: Аvren, Locality: Bliznatsi

Falls in the territory of the following Regional Inspectorates of Environment and Water (RIEW):
Varna - ul."Jan Palah" 4

Ordinance for announcement:
Ordinance No.РД-355 from 31.03.2021 2-2-103-355-2021

Ordinance for change:

Record for protected zone (link):

Aims of the declaration:
1. Preservation and maintenance of the types of natural habitats 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 Black sea biogeographical region;
2. Improving the structure and functions of natural habitats with codes 3260, 91M0 and 92A0;
3. Improvement of the habitats of the species Triturus karelinii and Testudo hermanni;
4. If necessary, improving the condition or restoring the types of natural habitats specified in item 2.1, habitats of species specified 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; 1140 Mudflats and sandflats not covered by seawater at low tide; 1160 Large shallow inlets and bays; 1170 Reefs; 1210 Annual vegetation of drift lines; 2110 Embryonic shifting dunes; 2130 Fixed coastal dunes with herbaceous vegetation ("grey dunes") 3150 Natural eutrophic lakes with Magnopotamion or Hydrocharition; 3260 Water courses of plain to montane levels with the Ranunculion fluitantis and Callitricho-Batrachion; 91G0 * Pannonic woods with Quercus petraea and Carpinus betulus; 91M0 Pannonian-Balkanic turkey oak-sessile oak forests; 92A0 Salix alba and Populus alba galleries;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Lutra lutra, Barbastella barbastellus, Myotis myotis, Phocoena phocoena, Tursiops truncatus; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus karelinii, Elaphe sauromates, Emys orbicularis, Testudo hermanni, Testudo graeca; Fish- Alosa immaculata, Alosa tanaica; Intervertebrates - Coenagrion ornatum, Cerambyx cerdo, Morimus funereus, Lucanus cervus, Lycaena dispar, *Euplagia (Callimorpha) quadripunctaria, Vertigo angustior, Vertigo moulinsiana.

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 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 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.
5. 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;
6. 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;
7. It is forbidden to construct artificial underwater reefs and islands on habitats subject to conservation in the marine areas of the area;
8. 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;
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 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;
11. 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;
12. 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);
13. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
14. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
15. 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;
16. It is prohibited grazing of domestic animals in forest areas, which are designated for forests in the old age phase.
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;

Overlapping (partial or full):
1. Protected Site: Liman
2. Protected Site: Rakitnik
3. PZ under the Bird Directive: Galata

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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