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State of Conservation Pirin National Park 2003

Pirin National Park

Bulgaria
Factors affecting the property in 2003*
  • Impacts of tourism / visitor / recreation
Factors* affecting the property identified in previous reports
  • Development of a hotel and a ski resort (issue resolved)
  • Project proposal envisaging the enlargement of the existing ski-zone within the World Heritage site
International Assistance: requests for the property until 2003
Requests approved: 0
Total amount approved : 0 USD
Missions to the property until 2003**

February 2002: joint UNESCO / IUCN monitoring mission

2002 Report of the International Mission to Pirin National Park (Bulgaria), 11-16 February 2002
Conservation issues presented to the World Heritage Committee in 2003

No information was provided by the State Party following the 26th session of the Committee and the results of the report provided by the UNESCO-IUCN mission to the site concerning the number of existing and potential threats to the site's values and integrity, including boundary issues, the lack of a management plan, and a new ski development proposal with forest disturbance. 

Summary of the interventions
Decisions adopted by the Committee in 2003
27 COM 7B.15
Pirin National Park (Bulgaria)

The World Heritage Committee,

1. Recalls its decision to defer the inscription of Pirin National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger until its 27th session (26 COM 21 (b) 2), with decision on this to be based on an assessment of the State Party's response to the UNESCO / IUCN mission report;

2. Regrets that the Bulgarian authorities did not provide the report requested by 1 February 2003 until 29 May 2003;

3. Welcomes the State Party's report and notes progress made in preparing the management plan for Pirin National Park, with support provided by the Swiss Government;

4. Urges the State Party to adopt the final management plan by the end of 2003, as noted in the report, so that it constitutes a legal document, and to provide a copy in English to the World Heritage Centre and IUCN along with a plan for implementation, including the allocation of sufficient resources, by 1 February 2004. Any development within the World Heritage property should comply with this management plan;

5. Requests the World Heritage Centre and IUCN to schedule a meeting in Bulgaria to review the situation with the authorities concerned;

6. Requests the State Party to provide to the World Heritage Centre by 1 February 2004, in order that the World Heritage Committee can examine the state of conservation of the property at its 28th session in 2004, a precise map of the boundary of the World Heritage properties as inscribed in 1983, including exact details of the existing and proposed Ski Development Zone, as well as a detailed report on:

(a) on-going efforts to develop effective management mechanisms,

(b) the restoration of the forest ecosystem of disturbed areas,

(c) the creation of a Scientific Advisory Body, 

(d) any developments of the proposed Ski Development Zone.

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Draft Decision: 27 COM 7 (b) 15

The World Heritage Committee,

1.   Recalls its decision to defer the inscription of Pirin National Park on the List of World Heritage in Danger until its 27th  session, with decision on this to be based on an assessment of the State Party's response to the UNESCO / IUCN mission report;

 

2.  Welcomes the State Party's report as requested by the 26th session of the Committee and notes progress made in preparing the management plan for Pirin National Park, with support provided by the Swiss Government;

3.  Urges the State Party to adopt the final management plan by the end of 2003, as noted in the report, so that it constitutes a legal document, and to provide a copy in English to the WH Centre and IUCN along with a plan for implementation, including the allocation of sufficient resources, by 1 February 2004. Any development within the World Heritage site should comply with this Management Plan.

4.  Requests the Centre and IUCN to schedule a meeting in Bulgaria to review the situation with the authorities concerned.

5.  Requests the State Party to provide by 1 February 2004, a precise map of the boundary of the World Heritage site as inscribed in 1983, including exact details of the existing and proposed Ski Development Zone, as well as a detailed report on (a) ongoing efforts to develop effective management mechanisms, (b) the restoration of the forest ecosystem of disturbed areas, (c) the creation of a Scientific Advisory Body, and (d) any developments of the proposed Ski Development Zone.

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Report year: 2003
Bulgaria
Date of Inscription: 1983
Category: Natural
Criteria: (vii)(viii)(ix)
Documents examined by the Committee
WHC.03/27.COM/7B
WHC.03/27.COM/7B.Corr
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* : The threats indicated are listed in alphabetical order; their order does not constitute a classification according to the importance of their impact on the property.
Furthermore, they are presented irrespective of the type of threat faced by the property, i.e. with specific and proven imminent danger (“ascertained danger”) or with threats which could have deleterious effects on the property’s Outstanding Universal Value (“potential danger”).

** : All mission reports are not always available electronically.


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