The Aggtelek National Park is an area with unique geological values — the only national park specifically created to protect geological values in the area. Among these inanimate natural values are the basic geological sections and geological formations, the importance of which is of international and national significance. Maintaining their long-term preservation and study is essential, but their protection extends not only to ensuring integrity, but also to repair any damage that has arisen and to prevent further damage. The status of the basic geological sections of national and international significance affected by the project has now deteriorated considerably. The excavations were planted, in several places filled with rock fragments or covered with clay and other sediment, so the former layers cannot be studied. The rock layers that emerged in the former quarry are now loosened, some of the rock walls are not even provided to the treatment professionals, their deterrence is essential to ensure further research, maintenance and preservation. The geological excavations, formations and rock walls affected by the project are located in sites under national protection and/or designed for protection. The objectives are met through reconstruction works in the following locations (vegetation clearance, de-risking, etc.): • Varbóc, Telekes-völgy T-044 basic geological gauge • Szendreád, Borda Valley, Pz-33-2 basic geological gauge • Szendreád, Borda Valley, Pz-33-3-1 basic geological gauge • Szendreád, Borda Valley, Pz-33-3-2 basic geological gauge • Szendreád, Borda Valley, Pz-33-4 basic geological gauge • Edelény, Church Hill, Pz-34 basic geological section • Szendrő, Var-hegy, Pz-31 basic geological profile • Szénvölgy-tető geological formation • Martonyi, Szár-hegy, T-055 basic geological section • Szögliget, Szádvár, T-105 basic geological gauge • Szögliget, double mine, T-106 basic geological gauge • Bódvarákó, rabbit garden geological formation The investment only concerns an area of 637.3174 ha (as target and/or intervention area); specific intervention is carried out at 5.7765 ha. The basic objective of the investment planned under the project is to: — ensuring a safe approach to basic geological gauges of international and national significance; — cleansing of planted surfaces, thereby ensuring that they can be studied again; — re-digging the trenches filled with rock fragments or clay and other sediment, thus ensuring that the layers can be re-examined; — cleansing of rock walls covered by rock fragments, clays and other debris, thus ensuring that the layers can be re-examined. The long-term objective is to ensure the researchability of the basic geological sections and geological formations, and to include the sites in the course of the earth science courses, which can be achieved as a result of the investment carried out in the framework of this tender. Overall, the project makes it possible to achieve the conservation objectives set out in the Nature Conservation and World Heritage Management Plan, which takes into account the Natura 2000 objectives. Accordingly, the conservation objectives of the site are as follows: — The conservation of geological formations particularly characteristic of karst and natural surface forms, burrows, rock formations and vegetation complexes that define the nature of the landscape, as well as protected geological excavations in a favourable condition; — To better understand the subsurface world, its extent, its formation, its geological and hydrological conditions, its surface and subsurface carstmorphological relationships, and to provide the necessary conditions for exploratory and scientific research. The complex objective of the project is to preserve and maintain the basic geological sections of international and national importance as protected natural monuments and parts of protected areas of national importance as valuable stratotypes, while preserving the outstanding universal values of the World Heritage Site. The aim of the project, which ANPI is planning to implement, is to contribute to a healthy, sustainable environment through development. Its direct results include the stabilisation of basic geological sections, geological formations, which provide a safe approach for geological professionals, students in geological sciences, and the staff of nature conservation managers. The indirect result of the realisation of the project is the re-examination of the basic sections, by which they can be connected to the Hungarian earth science training. The opening of the wooded rock walls has a positive impact on the Natura 2000 designation habitat affected by the project (6190 Pannonian rock grasslands (Stipo-Festucetalia pallentis)).