Archar   (Unique identification code in the register: BG0000497)

Category: PZ under the Habitat Directive

Map:
Map of the object

Area: 808.65 hectares

Location:
District: Vidin, Municipality: Dimovo, Locality: Аrchar

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-1035 from 17.12.2020 2-2-497-1035-2020

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 6250*, 6260*, 6440, 91Е0* and 91I0*;
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: 3130 Oligotrophic to mesotrophic standing waters with vegetation of the Littorelletea uniflorae and/or Isoeto-Nanojuncetea; 3270 Rivers with muddy banks with Chenopodion rubri and Bidention p.p.; 6250 * Pannonic loess steppic grasslands; 6260 * Pannonic sand steppes; 6440 Alluvial meadows of river valleys of the Cnidion dubii; 91E0 * Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior (Alno-Pandion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae); 91I0 * Euro-Siberian steppic woods with Quercus spp.;
2. Article 6, paragraph 1, section 2 from Biological Diversity Act: Mammals - Lutra lutra, Rhinolophus mehelyi, Rhinolophus euryale, Myotis blythii; Amphibians and reptiles - Triturus dobrogicus, Bombina bombina, Testudo hermanni, Emys orbicularis; Fish - Alosa immaculata, Aspius aspius,Pelecus cultratus, Romanogobio vladykovi, Rhodeus amarus, Misgurnus fossilis, Cobitis taenia, Gymnocephalus baloni, Gymnocephalus schraetzer, Zingel streber, Zingel zingel; Intervertebrates - Lucanus cervus, Paracaloptenus caloptenoides.

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 withdraw alluvial deposits from the river within the habitats under item 2.1 except in case of established need to maintain its conductivity, as well as to improve the condition of natural habitats and habitats of species under item 2;
5. 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;
6. It is prohibited the activities related to drainage and correction of ravines and natural water bodies, except: 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; to improve the condition of the natural habitats and the habitats of the species under item 2;
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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 plow, afforest and turn into permanent crops other lawns (arable land, which are not included in the crop rotation for 5 or more years) within the boundaries of natural habitats 6260 * and 6440;
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 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;
12. 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;
13. 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);
14. It is prohibited to use of irrigation water that contains harmful substances and waste above the permissible norms;
15. It is prohibited burning of stubble, syllables, roadside strips and areas with dry and moisture-loving vegetation;
16. It is prohibited to permanently store and deposit waste;

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Last update of the web application: 01.08.2011
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