18th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention
"National policies for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention: challenges and opportunities"
Yerevan, Armenia, 5-6 October 2016
Study visit, 7 October 2016
Organisation: The 18th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention on “National policies for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention: challenges and opportunities” was organised in Yerevan, Amenia, on 5-6 October 2016, by the Council of Europe – Directorate of Democratic Governance, Secretariat of the European Landscape Convention – in co-operation with the Ministry of Urban Development of Armenia, within the context of the Work Programme of the European Landscape Convention of the Council of Europe.
Objectives: For the purposes of the European Landscape Convention, ‘Landscape policy’ means “an expression by the competent public authorities of general principles, strategies and guidelines that permit the taking of specific measures aimed at the protection, management and planning of landscapes”.
‘Landscape’ means “an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors”; ‘Landscape protection’ means “actions to conserve and maintain the significant or characteristic features of a landscape, justified by its heritage value derived from its natural configuration and/or from human activity”; ‘Landscape management’ means “action, from a perspective of sustainable development, to ensure the regular upkeep of a landscape, in order to guide and harmonise changes which are brought about by social, economic and environmental processes”; and ‘Landscape planning’ means “strong forward-looking action to enhance, restore or create landscapes”.
The Meeting aimed to present experiences of national policies adopted or being developed, considering notably the provisions of its Article 5, which states that their Parties undertake:
to recognise landscapes in law as an essential component of people’s surroundings, an expression of the diversity of their shared cultural and natural heritage, and a foundation of their identity;
to establish and implement landscape policies aimed at landscape protection, management and planning through the adoption of the specific measures set out in Article 6 of the Convention ;
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;
to integrate landscape into their regional and town planning policies and in their cultural, environmental, agricultural, social and economic policies, as well as in any other policies with possible direct or indirect impact on landscape.
Participants : The Meeting was aimed at government officials – Members of the Council of Europe Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) and the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, representatives of other ministries, representatives of local and regional authorities, universities, professionals, public and private governmental and non-governmental organisations working in the fields of landscape and sustainable management, with its environmental, cultural, social and economic dimensions. The number of participants was limited to 100.
Mrs Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Mr Simon PAPYAN, First Deputy to the Minister of Nature Protection of Armenia
Mrs Liv Kirstine MORTENSEN, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, Department of Planning, Norway
Mrs Anne-Marie CHAVANON, Chair of the Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Committee of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe
INTRODUCTION
Mrs Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Head of the Landscape Division, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) of the Council of Europe
Workshop 1 – The national landscape policy of Armenia
Chairs
Mrs Ruzan ALAVERDYAN, Chief Advisor to the Minister of Urban Development, Armenia
Mr Audun MOFLAG, Honorary Senior Advisor of the Department of Regional Planning, Ministry of the Environment, Norway
Mr Ashot HOVHANNISYAN, Head of the Bio-Resource Management Agency, Ministry of Nature Protection, Professor
Mr Aram AGHASYAN, Head of Special Protected Areas and Arboretums Management, Bio-Resource Management Agency, Ministry of Nature Protection (+ PPT presentation)
Mr Hovik SAYADYAN, Dr. of Sciences in Geography, Head of International Relations Department, Armenian National Agrarian University – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Workshop 2 – Strategies and policy documents in favour of the landscape
Chairs
Mrs Dace GRANTA, Senior Officer, Representative of Latvia for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, Regional Planning Division, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, Latvia
Mr Jean-François SEGUIN, Honorary Chair of the Council of Europe Conference of the European Landscape Convention, France
Mr Jorge BONITO SANTOS, Architect, Member of the National Board of the Portuguese Order of Architects, Member of the Portuguese Architecture and Landscape Monitoring Committee, on behalf of
Mr Rui Manuel AMARO ALVES, General Director, General Directorate of Territorial Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning
Mrs Marta AFONSO, Architect, General Directorate of Territorial Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning
Mrs Anna MOLES, Head of Unit of Landscape, Biodiversity and Environmental Assessment, National Representative of Andorra for the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Sustainable Development
Mr Marc RITCHIE, Senior Official, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Architectural Heritage Advisory Unit
General debate on strategies and policy documents in favour of the landscape: challenges and opportunities
With the participation of Members of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP), Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention and representatives of Ministries; Representatives of the Armenian delegation; Representatives of local and regional authorities; Representatives of international governmental organisations and Representatives of international and national non-governmental organisations
Representatives of Parties to the Convention:
Belgium
Mrs Sarah DE MEYER, Senior Officer, Flemish Heritage Agency, Housing and Immovable Heritage, Flemish Region
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mr Dejan RADOSEVIC, Senior Expert Associate for Nature Conservation, Ministry of Education and Culture of Republika Srpska
Croatia
Mrs Mirna BOJIC, Senior Advisor Conservator, Ministry of Culture
Rapporteur
Mr Yves LUGINBÜHL, Emeritus Research Director of the National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Thursday 6 October 2016
Workshop 3 – Legal and financial instruments
Chairs
Mrs Krisztina KINCSES, National Representative of the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of Agriculture, Hungary
Mr Tapio HEIKKILÄ, Senior Environmental Counsellor, Department of the Natural Environment, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
Mr Julien TRANSY, Policy Officer for Landscape, Directorate for Housing Urban Development and Landscapes, Directorate of Urban Planning and Quality of Life, Landscape and Publicity Office, Ministry of Environment, Energy and the Sea
Mrs Małgorzata OPECHOWSKA, Senior Expert, National Secretary for the Landscape Convention, Department for Nature Protection, General Directorate for Environmental Protection
Mrs Carmen CARO, Senior Officer, Co-ordinator of the National Plans of Cultural Heritage, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Ministry of education, Culture and Sport (+ powerpoint)
Mr Enrico BUERGI, Former Member of the National Commission of the Swiss Landscape Fund, Honorary President of the Conference of the Council of Europe on the European Landscape Convention (+ PPT presentation)
Italy
Landscape policies: the National Landscape Observatory
Mrs Maria Maddalena ALESSANDRO, Senior Officer, National Head Representative of the European Landscape Convention, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism
Mr Giovanni MANIERI ELIA, Senior Officer, Landscape and Quality Management Department, Ministry for Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism, Italy
Mrs Marina GENTILI, Senior Officer, Landscape and Quality Management Department, Ministry for Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism, Italy
General debate on legal and financial instruments: challenges and opportunities
With the participation of Members of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP), Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention and representatives of Ministries; Representatives of the Armenian delegation; Representatives of local and regional authorities; Representatives of international governmental organisations and Representatives of international and national non-governmental organisations
Representatives of Parties to the Convention:
Georgia
Mrs Marina TUMANISHVILI, Architect Urban Planner, Chief Specialist, UNESCO and International Relations Unit, National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation
Norway
Mr Bjørn-Casper HORGEN, Deputy Director, Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, Department of Planning
Slovenia
Mrs Jelena HLADNIK, Secretary, National Head of the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of Agriculture and the Environment
Ukraine
Mr Ievgen IVANENKO, Research Fellow, Sector of Landscape Research, Institute of Geography, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, on behalf of
Mrs Olena LEGKA, European Landscape Convention National Focal Point, Chief Specialist, Division of Land Resources, Directorate of Natural Resources Protection, Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources
Mr Viacheslav OLESHCHENKO, Senior Researcher, Korestky Institute of State and Law, National Academy of Science
Rapporteur
Mrs Lionella SCAZZOSI, Architect, Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milano, Italy
Workshop 4 – Horizontal and vertical co-ordination
Chairs
Mrs Maria José FESTAS, Honorary Chair of the Council of Europe Conference of the European Landscape Convention, Portugal
Mr Phaedon ENOTIADES, Senior Official, Department of Town Planning and Housing, Ministry of Interior, Cyprus
Mr Anestis GOURGIOTIS, Senior Official, Head of Unit of National Spatial Plans, Department of Spatial Planning, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change (+ PPT presentation)
Mrs Biljana FILIPOVIC, Head of Department for EU Integration, International Co-operation and Project, National Co-ordinator for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention, Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (+ PPT presentation)
Mrs Biljana JOVANOVIC ILIC, Head of Unit for Strategic and Planning Documents, Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection
Mrs Jasminka LUKOVIC JAGLICIC, Director Advisor, Regional Economic Development Agency of for Sumadija and Pomoravlj
Mrs Jasminka CVEJIC, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Belgrade
Mrs Siranush DRMEYAN, Leading specialist, higher and Postgraduate Professional Education Department, Ministry of Education and Science
General debate on horizontal and vertical co-ordination: challenges and opportunities
With the participation of Members of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP), Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention and representatives of Ministries; Representatives of the Armenian delegation; Representatives of local and regional authorities; Representatives of international governmental organisations and Representatives of international and national non-governmental organisations
Representatives of Parties to the Convention:
Slovak Republic
Mr László MIKLOS, Senior Advisor to the Minister of the environment of the Slovak Republic, Professor of Landscape Ecology
Mr Yves LUGINBÜHL, Research Director Emeritus of the National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Mrs Lionella SCAZZOSI, Architect, Professor at the Politecnico of Milano, Italy
Mrs Maria José FESTAS, Honorary Chair of the Council of Europe Conference of the European Landscape Convention, Portugal
CLOSING SPEECHES
Mrs Liv Kirstine MORTENSEN, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, enior Advisor, Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation, Department of Planning, Norway
Mrs Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Head of the Landscape Division, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) of the Council of Europe
Mrs Ruzan ALAVERDYAN, Chief Advisor to the Minister of Urban Development, Armenia
