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Paragraph 5 of that regulation, entitled ‘Compulsory permits’, provides: ‘(1) A permit from the Landratsamt Rosenheim [(administrative authority of the Rural District of Rosenheim)], as the lower authority responsible for nature conservation (Article 43(2), point 3, of the BayNatSchG) must be obtained by anyone who, in a landscape conservation area, intends 1. to erect, change or change the use of any kind of construction (Article 2(1) of the Bayerische Bauordnung [(Bavarian Building Code)]), even if this does not require a building permit; such constructions include in particular: (a) buildings such as dwellings, agricultural and forestry buildings, weekend homes, boathouses, bathing huts, tool sheds, sales kiosks …; (b) enclosures and other barriers; (c) jetties and riverbank constructions; (d) changes to the land surface as a result of excavation or filling, in particular the creation and operation of new quarries, gravel pits, sand pits, loam pits or clay pits and other boreholes, and spoil heaps. This does not apply to fillings or excavations the surface area of which is up to 500 m2 and the height or depth of which is up to 0.3 m which are created for the purpose of improving the land on sites already in agricultural use; 2. in so far as the constructions in question are not already covered in point 1, (a) to erect billboards and posters, including advertising devices, with a surface area in excess of 0.5 m2, provided that they do not constitute residential or business names on residential or business premises; (b) to lay aboveground or underground wires, cables or pipelines and to erect masts; (c) to construct or substantially alter roads, paths or spaces, in particular campsites, sports fields, playgrounds and bathing areas or similar facilities; (d) to set up vending vans or to erect, secure and operate sales kiosks and vending machines; 3. to drive or park motor vehicles of any kind anywhere other than on roads, paths and spaces dedicated to public traffic; … 4. to abstract water above ground or underground to an extent beyond that of permitted public use, to alter bodies of water, their banks or beds, the inflow or outflow of water or the piezometric level, to create new bodies of water or to construct drainage systems; 5. to drain, dry out or otherwise destroy or cause significant damage to biotopes of special ecological value within the meaning of Paragraph 30 of the BNatSchG and Article 23 of the BayNatSchG, in particular bogs, swamps, reed beds, large sedge bogs, wet meadows rich in sedges and rushes, moor grass meadows, natural streams or springs, bog woodland, marshy forests, swamp forests and alluvial forests, as well as natural or semi-natural areas of flowing or standing inland waters, including their banks and associated natural or semi-natural riparian vegetation, and natural or semi-natural siltation areas, backwaters and periodically flooded areas; … 6. to plough, convert into multi-harvest grassland, fertilise, graze or afforest litter meadows; 7. to pursue, capture or kill wild animals or to remove their breeding sites, habitats or clutches of eggs; 8. to clear, fell or otherwise remove individual trees, hedges, hedgerows, living fences, or copses or field shrubs that characterise the landscape anywhere in the wild other than in woodlands; … 9. to clear forest stands in full or in part, carry out initial afforestation or perform associated clear-cutting of more than 0.5 hectares, convert deciduous, mixed or alluvial forests into forests with a predominantly coniferous content or establish specialised crops (such as tree nurseries) there; 10. to destroy or substantially alter, on the banks of bodies of water, riparian vegetation, reed beds or populations of aquatic plants, invade reed beds or populations of aquatic plants, or use chemical means to remove or control reed beds or clear ditches; … 11. to deposit waste, rubble and other objects, in so far as they are not already subject to the waste regulations, on sites other than those authorised for that purpose, even if the intention is not to landfill within the meaning of the building regulations; 12. to camp or park caravans (including folding trailers) or motorised dwelling vehicles anywhere other than on authorised sites, or allow others to do so; 13. to allow aircraft within the meaning of the Luftverkehrgesetz [(Law on Air Traffic)] to take off or land anywhere other than at authorised aerodromes. (2) The permit shall be issued, without prejudice to other legislative provisions, provided that the intended measure does not produce any of the effects referred to in Paragraph 4 or provided that any such effects can be offset by ancillary provisions. …’