RESTRICTIONS FOR OPERATIONS OF ECONOMIC
/By Law on Special Protected areas /
State special protected area shall be classified as follows:
1. national conservation park;
2. natural complex area;
3. natural reserve;
4. national monument area.
1.National Conservation Park:
National Conservation Park means an area taken under special protection of the State in order to ensure the ecological balance for peculiar features of natural zone and belt, its state of originality and outstanding scientific significance.
Prohibited Activities in National Conservation Park: /Article of this law
• to change the state of the nature by land ploughing, digging or exploding, minerals exploring, mining, sand or pit gravel procuring, wood, reed cutting, and road making in area other limited zone;
• to construct buildings or facilities other than those stipulated in the Paragraph 7 of the Article 11 of the present Law;
• to exploit open water sources such as rivers, lakes and springs for production purposes;
• to conduct other activities harmful to the nature and environment prohibited by legislation and protection regime.
2. Natural Complex Area
Natural complex area means an area taken under special protection of the State which has relatively conserved its natural original state and importance for historical, cultural and scientific knowledge, ecological education. /Article 13 of this law/
Prohibited Activities in Natural Complex Park: /Article 18 of this law/
• to change the state of the nature by land ploughing, digging or exploding, minerals exploring, mining, sand or pit gravel procuring, wood, reed cutting, and road making in area other limited zone;
• to construct buildings or facilities other than those stipulated in the Paragraph 7 of the Article 11 of the present Law;
• to exploit open water sources such as rivers, lakes and springs for production purposes;
• to conduct other activities harmful to the nature and environment prohibited by legislation and protection regime.
3.Nature reserve
Nature Reserve means an area taken under the state special protection to protect certain type of nature, to protect and conserve any resource, and to facilitate reclamation. /Article 19 of this law/
Prohibited Activities in Nature reserve: /Article 21 of this law/
• Any activities, that are potentially harmful to the environment, such as construction of buildings and facilities, industrial digging, blasting, exploration, mining, hunting and catching of animals, cutting of trees, reeds and rushes, that may alter the original state of the environment and pollute the river, shall be prohibited in the nature reserve
4. Monument
Monument means an area which is taken under the special protection of the state to preserve the unique natural formations, historical and cultural traces in their original conditions. /Article 22 of this law/
Prohibited Activities in Monument: /Article 24 of this law/
• It shall be prohibited to build facilities which may adversely affect the view of the monuments 0.1-3.0 km away from the natural, historical and cultural monuments, to plough, dig, blast, conduct mining and exploration, damage, break and dismantle the natural, historical and cultural monuments and to conduct any other activities that may harm them.
Consequently, it is prohibited in whole special protected area to perform any industrial and mining operation such as mining, exploration, blasting and to build a construction, road and using water for the purpose of industrial. However it is prohibited above activities in monuments away from 0.1 – 3.0 km.
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