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Fig. 1. Areas with enforced legal regimes — tied to use of the sea or as pertaining
functional areas of permitted uses and continental activities (map TK50 — Surveying
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ce of the Republic of Slovenia; data on regimes — KMTe, FGG).
Already a very brief summary of prohibitions, limitations or obligations
that apply to beaches, bathing areas and aquatories of mariculture enables
presentation of mutual interaction of their effects, conflicting uses or even
general use of the sea. Abroad the later has the highest priority. Therefore,
general use is limited only under extreme conditions (e.g. national defense
interests).
For contents shown in Fig. 1, we have to emphasize again that enforced
legal regimes determine conduct, even of coincidental users (local popula-
tion, tourists, etc.). From the remaining parts of the coastline, which are
(still) outside areas with applied legal regimes (whereby free access to the
sea is possible), one can see that such areas on the Slovenian coast are
very few.
3. Conclusions
The presented approach combining in close interaction existing (or foreseen)
legal regimes show that the sea surface is not an empty space, therefore
enforcement of integral planning of water, land and natural resources (the
sea) is essential. This does not mean that expanding planning of existing
