EN
The article is focused on the role and functioning of the protected nature areas' and landscape's external protecting zones. The external protecting zones of the protected areas are not self-contained units of nature conservation. They rather serve the protection of units that they surround. In the article the typological-functional classification of the external protecting zones is proposed. It consists of the external protecting zones in mountainous, valley and lowland national parks. Those external protecting zones serve as a "filter" to the external interactions, as a site of the natural transmission and as a site for localising technical background that is connected with the regulations of the protected area.