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principles and administrative arrangements, and respecting the principle of
subsidiarity, taking into account the European Charter of Local Self-
government. Without derogating from the provisions of this Convention,
each Party shall harmonise the implementation of this convention with its
own policies.
Article 5 – GENERAL MEASURES
Each Party undertakes:
a to recognise landscapes in law as an essential component of peopležs
surroundings, an expression of the diversity of their shared cultural and
natural heritage, and a foundation of their identity;
b to establish and implement landscape policies aimed at landscape
protection, management and planning through the adoption of the specific
measures set out inArticle 6;
c to establish procedures for the participation of the general public, local and
regional authorities, and other parties with an interest in the definition and
implementation of the landscape policies mentioned in paragraph b above;
d to integrate landscape into its regional and town planning policies and in its
cultural, environmental, agricultural, social and economic policies, as well as
in any other policies with possible direct or indirect impact on landscape.
Article 6 – SPECIFIC MEASURES
A Awareness-raising
Each Party undertakes to increase awareness among the civil society, private
organisations, and public authorities of the value of landscapes, their role and
changes to them.
B Training and education
Each Party undertakes to promote:
a training for specialists in landscape appraisal and operations;
b multidisciplinary training programmes in landscape policy, protection,
management and planning, for professionals in the private and public sectors
and for associations concerned;
c school and university courses which, in the relevant subject areas, address
the values attaching to landscapes and the issues raised by their protection,
management and planning.
C Identification and assessment
1. With the active participation of the interested parties, as stipulated in
Article 5.c. and with a view to improving knowledge of its landscapes, each
Party undertakes;
a) i to identify its own landscapes throughout its territory;
ii to analyse their characteristics and the forces and pressures
transforming them;
iii to take note of changes;
b) to assess the landscapes thus identified, taking into account the particular
values assigned to them by the interested parties and the population
concerned.
2. These identification and assessment procedures shall be guided by the
exchanges of experience and methodology, organised between the Parties at
European level pursuant toArticle 8.
D Landscape quality objectives
Each Party undertakes to define landscape quality objectives for the
landscapes identified and assessed, after public consultation in accordance
withArticle 5.c.
E Implementation
To put landscape policies into effect each Party undertakes to introduce
instruments aimed at protecting, managing and/or planning the landscape.
Chapter III – EUROPEAN CO-OPERATION
Article 7 – INTERNATIONAL POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES
Parties undertake to co-operate in the consideration of the landscape
dimension of international policies and programmes, and to recommend,
where relevant, the inclusion in themof landscape considerations.
Article 8 – MUTUALASSISTANCE AND EXCHANGE OF
INFORMATION
The Parties undertake to co-operate in order to enhance the effectiveness of
measures taken under other articles of this Convention, and in particular:
a) to render each other technical and scientific assistance in landscape matters
through the pooling and exchange of experience, and the results of research
projects;
b) to promote the exchange of landscape specialists in particular for training
and information purposes;
c) to exchange information on all matters covered by the provisions of the
Convention.
Article 9 – TRANSFRONTIER LANDSCAPES
The Parties shall encourage transfrontier co-operation on local and regional
level and, wherever necessary, prepare and implement joint landscape
programmes.
Article 10 – MONITORING OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
CONVENTION
1. Existing competent Committees of Experts set up under Article 17 of the
Statute of the Council of Europe shall be designated by the Committee of
Ministers of the Council of Europe to be responsible for monitoring the
implementation of the Convention.
2. Following each meeting of the Committees of Experts, the Secretary
General of the Council of Europe shall transmit a report on the work carried
out and on the operation of the Convention to the Committee ofMinisters.
3. The Committees of Experts shall propose to the Committee of Ministers
the criteria for conferring and the rules governing the Landscape award of the
Council of Europe.
Article 11 – LANDSCAPE AWARD OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
1. The Landscape award of the Council of Europe is a distinction which may
be conferred on local and regional authorities and their groupings that have
instituted, as part of the landscape policy of a Party to this Convention, a
policy or measures to protect, manage and/or plan their landscape, which
have proved lastingly effective and can thus serve as an example to other
territorial authorities in Europe. The distinction may be also conferred on
non-governmental organisations having made particularly remarkable
contributions to landscape protection, management or planning.
2. Applications for the Landscape award of the Council of Europe shall be
submitted to the Committees of Experts mentioned in Article 10 by the
Parties. Transfrontier local and regional authorities and groupings of local
and regional authorities concerned, may apply provided that they jointly
manage the landscape in question.
3. On proposals from the Committees of Experts mentioned inArticle 10 the
Committee of Ministers shall define and publish the criteria for conferring the
Landscape award of the Council of Europe, adopt the relevant rules and
confer theAward.
4. The granting of the Landscape award of the Council of Europe is to
encourage those receiving the award to ensure the sustainable protection,
management and/or planning of the landscape areas concerned.
Chapter IV – FINAL CLAUSES
Article 12 – RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER INSTRUMENTS
The provisions of this Convention shall not prejudice stricter provisions
concerning landscape protection, management and planning contained in
other existing or future binding national or international instruments.