the European Landscape Convention:

Pavlina Misikova, MoE, Slovakia

from

(initial)

ENTHUSIASM

through

(blind)

SATISFACTION

to

(real)

CHANGES

STORY LINE

90th – 2000

• preparatory stage

2000 – 2004

• accession stage

2004 – 2010

• first implementation stage

2010

• 10th anniversary

from 2010 ongoing

• second implementation stage

90th – 2000 • preparatory stage

Northen

Initiative

Seminar

Europe

preserved

for Europe

York, UK

Conference

Landscape

in new

Europe:

Blois, FR

Southern

Initiative

EEA:

Europe's

Environm.:

Dobríš

Assessm.

Internat.

congress

Mediteran.

landscape

Montpellier,

FR

Initiatives

joined

and

adressed

CoE

CoE

Strasbourg

90th 1990 1992 1992 1992 1993 1994 2000

First signals

from the UK:

Countryside

Commission

Landscape

Research

-European

Federation of

National and

Nature Parks

ECOVAST

National

Trust

Beginning

of

discussion

towards

the idea

of the

convention

on

protection

of

European

rural

landscapes

Landscape

Research

Group

Paysage et

Aménageme

nt,

Potential

base for the

need of the

convention

Second

signals

from the

regions:

Andalusia

Languedoc-

Roussillon

Toscany

Proposal for

drafting a

convention

on rural

landscapes

under the

auspices of

the CoE,

which was

strongly

reiterated by

the IUCN in

its European

Programme

on Protected

Areas

Final

wording of

the charter

CLRAE

Based on

Mediter.

Charter to

elaborate

Framework

convention

on

managem.

and

protection of

all types of

cultural and

natural

landscapes

of Europe

19th July

Committee

of Ministers

adopted the

ELC and

recomended

for opening

for signature

2000 – 2004 •accession stage

2004 – 2010 • first implementation stage

the ELC status of entries into force

Example: National Seminars

• “Spatial planning and landscape”, Yerevan (Armenia), 23-24 October 2003

• “Spatial planning and landscape”, Moscow (Russian Federation), 26-27 April 2004

• “Sustainable spatial development and the European Landscape Convention”, Tulcea (Romania), 6-7 May 2004

• “The contribution of Albania to the implementation of the European Landscape Convention”, Tirana (Albania), 15-16 December 2005

• “Landscape”, Andorra la Vella (Principality of Andorra), 4-5 June 2007

National committees .. Workshops... and national seminars

FOSTERING KNOWLEDGE AND RESEARCH FOR POLICY DEVELOPMENT Exploratory reports

Le Parc de la Deûle

Lille Metropole Communaute Urbaine (FR)

Council of Europe

Landscape Award 2009

Park Christina Enea/ San Sebastian (ES)

Special mention of the jury 2009

2010 • 10th anniversary

INGO Sustainable Territorial Development Committee Declaration: ELC 10th Anniversary “New challenges, new opportunities”

19-20 October 2010 Call public authorities at all governance levels to:

• Facilitate the implementation of national and local legislations and regulations recognizing landscapes in law as an essential component of people’s surroundings and a foundation of their identity respecting the citizens ownership of their landscapes and strengthen citizen participation at all levels

• Favor the definition of rights, responsibilities and abilities of each actor at every stage of landscape protection, management and planning and strengthen public awareness and civil engagement

• Ensure the integration of the landscape dimension in all policies having a direct or indirect impact on landscape, regarding it as public wealth

• Insist, in implementation of the ELC, that the general public and relevant parties participate in the definition of quality landscape policies and in the implementation of protection, management and planning actions, have full access to all information and are fully integrated at any level in the decision making process

Call public authorities at all governance levels to:

• Ascertain that information documents written in clear, non-technical language be put at public disposal open to discussion, in due time, as stipulated in the ELC

• Promote information and awareness actions among all parties (elected representatives, economic players, NGOs, civil society and population) at all territory levels, with a view to protect the environment and enhance our natural and cultural heritage and its diversity for the generations to come

• Encourage, to that end, scientific research and education in landscape components and its evolutions within the scope of school and college training as well as adult education

• Promote the setting up of a bank of qualified local and national data, available to the Council of Europe and to all citizens, and giving access to landscape strategies in Member states, so as to have a complete vision of ongoing actions

from 2010 ongoing • second implementation stage

the ELC status of entries into force

Florence, 2000 European

Landscape Convention

into force 2004

Faro, 2005 Council of Europe

Framework Convention on the

Value of Cultural Heritage

for Society

into force 2011

Granada, 1985 Convention for the protection

of the Architectural Heritage of

Europe

into force 1987

La Valetta, 1992 European

Convention on the protection

of Archaeological

Heritage (revised)

into force 1995

and CoE heritage conventions

Belgium - Walonia

Frace

Finland

Italy

Great Britain

Czech

number

of

ratifications

information

on practical

steps taken

to measure

effect of the

implication

from an observation towards the monitoring

The information system ELCIS

is expected to meet the following objectives

• enable authorities and the public to access information and experiences relating to

landscape protection, management and planning;

• contribute to the monitoring of the implementation of the ELC (Art. 10)

• allow Parties who wish to use this information system for national use;

• eventually provide an ‘observatory’ to analyse and highlight how a rapidly

changing society may benefit from caring for landscape;

• facilitate monitoring the development of landscape policies in accordance with

the ELC;

• maintain and develop cooperative landscape networks and encourage mutual

assistance and exchange of information between parties;

• provide effective information, facilitate the establishment of forums and an

interactive data network, and encourage people, especially young people, interested

in landscape;

• provide useful information for research and action

Feedback is necessary from the independent experts/ organisations

• regional deve-lopment

• culture • educa-tion

• agricu-lture

• trans-port

• econo-my

• public work

• foreign affairs

• energy • spatial plan-ning

• tourism • nature conser-vation

• infra-structu-re

• rese-arch

• water mana-gement

• forestry • climate change

• cultural heritage

• mineral extrac-tion

• rural deve-lopmet

• indus-try • local deve-lopment

• sustain-able develop.

• urban plan-ning

If the ELC suppose to be „a benchmark to initiate a process of profound change in landscape policies“

The national landscape policy is a key.

If the ELC suppose to be „a benchmark to initiate a process of profound change in landscape policies“

• DEFINITION OF “LANDSCAPE” IN LANGUAGES • LEGAL DEFINITIONS OF THE TERM LANDSCAPE • THE PLACE OF LANDSCAPE IN THE CONSTITUTIONS • SPECIFIC LAWS RELATING TO LANDSCAPE • GENERAL LAWS AND CODES RELATING TO LANDSCAPE

CONCLUSION ... for the FUTURE