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titel: Europees landschapsverdrag
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bwb_id: BWBV0001748
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type: verdrag
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status: geldend
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datum_inwerkingtreding: '2005-11-01'
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bron: https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBV0001748
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citeertitel: Europees landschapsverdrag
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# Europees landschapsverdrag
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## Hoofdstuk I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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### Artikel 1
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For the purposes of the Convention:
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a) a)
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``Landscape" means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors;
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b) b)
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``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;
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c) c)
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``Landscape quality objective" means, for a specific landscape, the formulation by the competent public authorities of the aspirations of the public with regard to the landscape features of their surroundings;
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d) d)
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``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;
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e) e)
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``Landscape management" means action, from a perspective of sustainable development, to ensure the regular upkeep of a landscape, so as to guide and harmonise changes which are brought about by social, economic and environmental processes;
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f) f)
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``Landscape planning" means strong forward-looking action to enhance, restore or create landscapes.
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### Artikel 2
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Subject to the provisions contained in Article 15, this Convention applies to the entire territory of the Parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It includes land, inland water and marine areas. It concerns landscapes that might be considered outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes.
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### Artikel 3
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The aims of this Convention are to promote landscape protection, management and planning, and to organise European co-operation on landscape issues.
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## Hoofdstuk II. NATIONAL MEASURES
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### Artikel 4
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Each Party shall implement this Convention, in particular Articles 5 and 6, according to its own division of powers, in conformity with its constitutional 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.
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### Artikel 5
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Each Party undertakes:
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a) a)
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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;
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b) b)
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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;
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c) c)
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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;
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d) d)
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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.
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### Artikel 6
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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.
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Each Party undertakes to promote:
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a) a)
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training for specialists in landscape appraisal and operations;
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b) b)
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multidisciplinary training programmes in landscape policy, protection, management and planning, for professionals in the private and public sectors and for associations concerned;
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c) c)
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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.
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**1.**
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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:
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a) a)
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(i)
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to identify its own landscapes throughout its territory;
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(ii)
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to analyse their characteristics and the forces and pressures transforming them;
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(iii)
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to take note of changes;
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(i) (i)
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to identify its own landscapes throughout its territory;
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(ii) (ii)
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to analyse their characteristics and the forces and pressures transforming them;
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(iii) (iii)
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to take note of changes;
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b) b)
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to assess the landscapes thus identified, taking into account the particular values assigned to them by the interested parties and the population concerned.
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**2.** These identification and assessment procedures shall be guided by the exchanges of experience and methodology, organised between the Parties at European level pursuant to Article 8.
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Each Party undertakes to define landscape quality objectives for the landscapes identified and assessed, after public consultation in accordance with Article 5.c.
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To put landscape policies into effect, each Party undertakes to introduce instruments aimed at protecting, managing and/or planning the landscape.
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## Hoofdstuk III. EUROPEAN CO-OPERATION
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### Artikel 7
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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 them of landscape considerations.
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### Artikel 8
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The Parties undertake to co-operate in order to enhance the effectiveness of measures taken under other articles of this Convention, and in particular:
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a) a)
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to render each other technical and scientific assistance in landscape matters through the pooling and exchange of experience, and the results of research projects;
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b) b)
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to promote the exchange of landscape specialists in particular for training and information purposes;
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c) c)
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to exchange information on all matters covered by the provisions of the Convention.
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### Artikel 9
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The Parties shall encourage transfrontier co-operation on local and regional level and, wherever necessary, prepare and implement joint landscape programmes.
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### Artikel 10
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**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.
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**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 of Ministers.
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**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.
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### Artikel 11
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**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.
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**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.
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**3.** On proposals from the Committees of Experts mentioned in Article 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 the Award.
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**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.
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## Hoofdstuk IV. FINAL CLAUSES
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### Artikel 12
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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.
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### Artikel 13
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**1.** This Convention shall be open for signature by the member States of the Council of Europe. It shall 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.
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**2.** The Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiry 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.
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**3.** In respect of any signatory State which subsequently expresses its consent to be bound by it, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date of the deposit of the instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval.
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### Artikel 14
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**1.** 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 majority decision as provided in Article 20.d of the Council of Europe Statute, and by the unanimous vote of the States parties entitled to hold seats in the Committee of Ministers.
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**2.** In respect of any acceding State, or the European Community in the event of its accession, this Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date of deposit of the instrument of accession with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
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### Artikel 15
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**1.** Any State or the European Community may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, specify the territory or territories to which the Convention shall apply.
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**2.** Any Party may, at any later date, by declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, extend the application of this Convention to any other territory specified in the declaration. The Convention shall take effect in respect of such territory on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the declaration by the Secretary General.
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**3.** Any declaration made under the two paragraphs above may, in respect of any territory mentioned in such declaration, be withdrawn by notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. Such withdrawal shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
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### Artikel 16
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**1.** Any Party may, at any time, denounce this Convention by means of a notification addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe.
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**2.** Such denunciation shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date of receipt of the notification by the Secretary General.
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### Artikel 17
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**1.** Any Party or the Committees of Experts mentioned in Article 10 may propose amendments to this Convention.
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**2.** Any proposal for 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 others Parties, and to any European non-member State which has been invited to accede to this Convention in accordance with the provisions of Article 14.
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**3.** The Committees of Experts mentioned in Article 10 shall examine any amendment proposed and submit the text adopted by a majority of three-quarters of the Parties' representatives to the Committee of Ministers for adoption. Following its adoption by the Committee of Ministers by the majority provided for in Article 20.d of the Statute of the Council of Europe and by the unanimous vote of the States parties entitled to hold seats in the Committee of Ministers, the text shall be forwarded to the Parties for acceptance.
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**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 expiry of a period of three months after the date on which three Council of Europe member States have informed the Secretary General of their acceptance. In respect of any Party which subsequently accepts it, such amendment shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiry of a period of three months after the date on which the said Party has informed the Secretary General of its acceptance.
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### Artikel 18
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The Secretary General of the Council of Europe shall notify the member States of the Council of Europe, any State or the European Community having acceded to this Convention, of:
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any signature;
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b) b)
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the deposit of any instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession;
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c) c)
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any date of entry into force of this Convention in accordance with Articles 13, 14 and 15;
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d) d)
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any declaration made under Article 15;
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e) e)
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any denunciation made under Article 16;
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f) f)
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any proposal for amendment, any amendment adopted pursuant to Article 17 and the date on which it comes into force;
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g) g)
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any other act, notification, information or communication relating to this Convention.
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