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(State 1 Er June 2013)
Preamble
The member States of the Council of Europe, signatories to this Convention,
Whereas the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve a closer union among its members, in order to safeguard and promote the ideals and principles which are their common heritage, and that this aim is pursued in particular by the Conclusion of agreements in the economic and social fields;
Concerned with achieving sustainable development based on a harmonious balance between social needs, the economy and the environment;
Noting that the landscape is an important part of the general interest, culturally, ecologically, environmentally and socially, and that it is a resource for economic activity, including protection, management and Appropriate accommodation can contribute to job creation;
Aware that the landscape contributes to the development of local cultures and represents a fundamental component of Europe's cultural and natural heritage, contributing to the development of human beings and the consolidation of identity European;
Recognising that the landscape is everywhere an important element of the quality of life of populations: in urban and rural areas, in degraded areas as well as in high quality, in remarkable spaces as in Daily life;
Noting that developments in agricultural, forestry, industrial and mining techniques and practices in land use planning, urban planning, transport, networks, tourism and leisure, and, more generally, Global economic changes continue, in many cases, to accelerate landscape transformation;
Wishing to respond to the desire of the public to enjoy quality landscapes and to play an active role in their transformation;
Convinced that the landscape is an essential element of individual and social well-being, and that its protection, management and development involve rights and responsibilities for everyone;
Bearing in mind the legal texts existing at the international level in the fields of protection and management of natural and cultural heritage, spatial planning, local self-government and cross-border cooperation, The Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and the Natural Environment (Bern, 19 September 1979) 2 , the Convention for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe (Granada, 3 October 1985) 3 , the European Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage (revised) (Valletta, 16 January 1992) 4 , the European Outline Convention on Transfrontier Co-operation between Territorial Communities or Authorities (Madrid, 21 May 1980) 5 And its additional protocols, the European Charter of Local Self-Government (Strasbourg, 15 October 1985) 6 Convention on Biological Diversity (Rio, 5 June 1992) 7 , the Convention on the Protection of the World Heritage, Cultural and Natural Heritage (Paris, 16 November 1972), and the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Matters Environment (Aarhus, 25 June 1998) 8 ;
Recognising that the quality and diversity of European landscapes constitute a common resource for the protection, management and development of which it is necessary to cooperate;
Wishing to establish a new instrument devoted exclusively to the protection, management and management of all European landscapes,
Agreed to the following:
For the purposes of this Convention:
Subject to the provisions of Art. 15, this Convention shall apply throughout the territory of the Parties and shall cover natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It includes land, inland and maritime areas. It concerns, both landscapes that can be regarded as remarkable, as well as the landscapes of everyday life and degraded landscapes.
The purpose of this Convention is to promote the protection, management and development of landscapes and to organise European cooperation in this field.
Each Party shall implement this Convention, in particular its art. 5 and 6, according to the distribution of its own competences, in accordance with its constitutional principles and administrative organisation, and in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, taking into account the European Charter of autonomy Local. Without derogating from the provisions of this Convention each Party shall implement this Convention in accordance with its own policies.
Each Party undertakes:
A. Awareness
Each Party undertakes to increase the awareness of civil society, private organizations and public authorities about the value of landscapes, their role and their transformation.
B. Training and Education
Each Party undertakes to promote:
C. Identification and Qualification
1. By mobilising the actors concerned in accordance with Art. 5, let. C and with a view to a better knowledge of its landscapes, each Party undertakes:
2. The identification and qualification work will be guided by exchanges of experience and methodologies, organised between the Parties at European level pursuant to Art. 8.
D. Landscape quality objectives
Each Party undertakes to formulate landscape quality objectives for the identified and qualified landscapes, after consultation with the public in accordance with Art. 5, let. C.
E. Implementation
To implement landscape policies, each Party undertakes to put in place means of intervention for the protection, management and/or management of landscapes.
The Parties undertake to cooperate in taking account of the landscape dimension in international policies and programmes, and to recommend, where appropriate, that landscape considerations be incorporated.
The Parties undertake to cooperate to enhance the effectiveness of the measures taken in accordance with the articles of this Convention, and in particular:
The Parties undertake to encourage cross-border cooperation at local and regional level and, if necessary, to develop and implement common landscape enhancement programmes.
1. Existing competent committees of experts established under s. 17 of the Statute of the Council of Europe 1 , are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the Convention by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
2. After each meeting of the Committee of Experts, the Secretary General of the Council of Europe transmits a report on the work and functioning of the Convention to the Committee of Ministers.
3. The Committee of Ministers shall propose to the Committee of Ministers the criteria for the award and the settlement of a Council of Europe Landscape Prize.
1. Can be awarded the Landscape Prize of the Council of Europe the local and regional authorities and their groupings which, within the framework of the landscape policy of a Party to this Convention, have implemented a policy or Measures for the protection, management and/or sustainable development of their landscapes, demonstrating sustainable efficiency and thus serving as an example to other European local authorities. The distinction can also be attributed to non-governmental organizations that have made a particularly remarkable contribution to the protection, management or development of the landscape.
2. Nominations for the Council of Europe Landscape Prize will be forwarded to the Committees of Experts referred to in Art. 10 by the Parties. Cross-border local and regional authorities and the groupings of local or regional authorities concerned may be candidates on the condition that they manage the landscape together.
3. On the proposal of the Committees of Experts referred to in Art. 10 The Committee of Ministers defines and publishes the criteria for the award of the Council of Europe Landscape Prize, adopts its Rules of Procedure and awards the Prize.
4. The award of the Landscape Prize of the Council of Europe must lead the subjects who hold it to ensure the protection, management and/or sustainable development of the landscapes concerned.
The provisions of this Convention shall not affect the stricter provisions on the protection, management or management of landscapes contained in other binding national or international instruments which are or Enter into force.
This Convention shall be open for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe. It will be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval. Instruments of ratification, acceptance or approval shall be deposited with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
2. The Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which ten member States of the Council of Europe have expressed their consent to be bound by the Convention in accordance with the Provisions of the preceding paragraph.
(3) For any signatory who subsequently expresses its consent to be bound by the Convention, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of Ratification, acceptance or approval.
After the entry into force of this Convention, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe may invite the European Community and any European State which is not a member of the Council of Europe to accede to the Convention by a decision taken at the Majority provided for in s. 20, let. D the Statute of the Council of Europe 1 , and unanimously by the States Parties having the right to sit on the Committee of Ministers.
2. For any acceding State or the European Community in the case of accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of accession Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
(1) Any State or the European Community may, at the time of signature or at the time of deposit of their instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, designate the territory or territories to which this Convention shall apply.
(2) Any Party may, at any time thereafter, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, extend the application of this Convention to any other territory designated in the declaration. The Convention shall enter into force in respect of that territory on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the declaration by the Secretary General.
(3) Any declaration made under the two preceding paragraphs may be withdrawn in respect of any territory designated in that declaration, by notification addressed to the Secretary General. The withdrawal shall take effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
1. Any Party may, at any time, denounce this Convention by sending a notification to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
(2) Denunciation shall take effect on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
1. Any Party or Expert Panels referred to in s. 10 may propose amendments to this Convention.
2. Any proposed amendment shall be notified to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, who shall communicate it to the member States of the Council of Europe, to the other Parties and to each non-member European State which has been invited to accede to the present Convention in accordance with the provisions of Art. 14.
3. Any proposed amendment shall be considered by the Committees of Experts referred to in Art. 10 who submit the text adopted by a majority of three-quarters of the representatives of the Parties to the Committee of Ministers for adoption. After its adoption by the Committee of Ministers by a majority provided for in Art. 20, let. D the Statute of the Council of Europe 1 And by unanimity of representatives of the States Parties having the right to sit on the Committee of Ministers, the text shall be transmitted to the Parties for acceptance.
4. Any amendment shall enter into force in respect of the Parties which have accepted it on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which three member Parties of the Council of Europe have informed the Secretary General that they have accepted it. For any other Party which subsequently accepts it, the amendment shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of three months after the date on which the said Party has informed the Secretary General of its Acceptance.
The Secretary General of the Council of Europe shall notify the member States of the Council of Europe, to any State or the European Community having acceded to this Convention:
In witness whereof , the undersigned, duly authorized to that effect, have signed this Convention.
Done at Florence, on 20 October 2000, in English and French, both texts being equally authentic, in a single copy which shall be deposited in the archives of the Council of Europe. The Secretary General of the Council of Europe shall transmit certified copies to each member state of the Council of Europe and to any State or European Community invited to accede to this Convention.
(Suivent signatures)
States Parties |
Ratification |
Entry into force |
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Andorra |
7 March |
2012 |
1 Er July |
2012 |
Armenia |
23 March |
2004 |
1 Er July |
2004 |
Azerbaijan |
August 30 |
2011 |
1 Er December |
2011 |
Belgium |
28 October |
2004 |
1 Er February |
2005 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
31 January |
2012 |
1 Er May |
2012 |
Bulgaria |
24 November |
2004 |
1 Er March |
2005 |
Cyprus |
21 June |
2006 |
1 Er October |
2006 |
Croatia |
15 January |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Denmark A |
20 March |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Spain |
26 November |
2007 |
1 Er March |
2008 |
Finland |
16 December |
2005 |
1 Er April |
2006 |
France |
March 17 |
2004 |
1 Er July |
2006 |
Greece |
17 May |
2010 |
1 Er September |
2010 |
Georgia |
September 15 |
2010 |
1 Er January |
2011 |
Hungary |
26 October |
2007 |
1 Er February |
2008 |
Ireland |
22 March |
2002 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Italy |
4 May |
2006 |
1 Er September |
2006 |
Latvia |
5 June |
2007 |
1 Er October |
2007 |
Lithuania |
13 November |
2002 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Luxembourg |
September 20 |
2006 |
1 Er January |
2007 |
Macedonia |
18 November |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Moldova |
March 14 |
2002 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Montenegro |
22 January |
2009 |
1 Er May |
2009 |
Norway |
23 October |
2001 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Netherlands B |
27 July |
2005 |
1 Er November |
2005 |
Poland |
27 September |
2004 |
1 Er January |
2005 |
Portugal |
March 29 |
2005 |
1 Er July |
2005 |
Romania |
7 November |
2002 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
United Kingdom C |
21 November |
2006 |
1 Er March |
2007 |
Czech Republic |
3 June |
2004 |
1 Er October |
2004 |
San Marino |
26 November |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Serbia |
28 June |
2011 |
1 Er October |
2011 |
Slovakia |
August 9 |
2005 |
1 Er December |
2005 |
Slovenia |
September 25 |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Switzerland |
22 February |
2013 |
1 Er June |
2013 |
Sweden |
5 January |
2011 |
1 Er May |
2011 |
Turkey |
13 October |
2003 |
1 Er March |
2004 |
Ukraine |
10 March |
2006 |
1 Er July |
2006 |
A |
The Convention does not apply to the Faroe Islands and Greenland. |
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B |
For the Kingdom in Europe |
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C |
Application to the Metropolitan Territory of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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1 RO 2013 1377
2 RS 0.455
3 RS 0.440.4
4 RS 0.440.5
5 RS 0.131.1
6 RS 0.102
7 RS 0.451.43
8 FF 2012 4027