Declares Picos de Europa a National Park and sets its management

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1. It declares the Picos de Europa National Park, with its conservation declared of general interest to the Nation, in Asturias, Cantabria and Castilla y León, and includes it in the State Network of National Parks. Its goals are to protect the ecosystems, spread the cultural values of the area and promote sustainable development for its residents.
2. The Park covers the lands described in annex I. The Government may add neighboring lands with similar ecological features, and the Autonomous Communities may set a peripheral protection zone around it.
3. Uses and activities that alter or endanger the Park's ecosystems are banned, except for traditional uses that are compatible. In particular, new buildings for non-traditional purposes cannot be built, and natural resources cannot be used in ways that harm the Park's balance. All land, except urban centers, is classified as specially protected non-developable land.
4. Management falls to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, assisted by a Board of Trustees (Patronato) and a Joint Commission with the three Autonomous Communities. The Board includes representatives of the State, the Communities, the town councils, the universities, landowners, environmental and farming associations, and mountaineering and caving federations.
5. Planning is organized through several tools: the Natural Resources Management Plan, the Use and Management Master Plan, sector plans and the annual work plan. In addition, a Sustainable Development Plan is approved for the Park's communities and its area of influence.
6. It defines very serious offenses (such as building without authorization or introducing foreign species), serious ones (such as lighting fires in banned areas or making disturbing noise) and minor ones (such as camping outside the designated places). Penalties are imposed by the Park Director, the Director General of ICONA or the Minister, depending on severity.

Who it affects

• Residents and municipalities in the Park area: Their activities are limited to what the Park's plans allow, but they receive compensation and a Sustainable Development Plan.
• Park visitors: They must follow the rules: no camping outside designated places, no fires in banned areas and no disturbing noise.
• Landowners inside the Park: Their property is declared of public utility and the State may exercise rights of first refusal and withdrawal on sales.
• Public authorities (State, Asturias, Cantabria and Castilla y León): They share Park management through the Ministry, the Board of Trustees and the Joint Commission.

Words worth knowing

Plan Rector de Uso y Gestión

Use and Management Master Plan: the document that sets how the Park is used and managed, which zones exist and which activities are allowed.

Tanteo y retracto

Rights of first refusal and withdrawal: they allow the State to take over a property sold by its owner, under the same sale conditions.

Suelo no urbanizable

Non-developable land: land where building is not allowed, with very limited exceptions.

Área de influencia socioeconómica

Socioeconomic area of influence: the group of municipalities around the Park affected by it, which may receive aid and compensation.

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