Strasbourg, 16 March 2019

CEP-CDCPP (2019) 1E

10th COUNCIL OF EUROPE CONFERENCE ON THE EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE CONVENTION

Conference organised under the auspices of the Presidency of Finland of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe

DRAFT AGENDA

Palais de l’Europe, Strasbourg - Room 1

6-7 May 2019

 

Presentation

The European Landscape Convention was adopted by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on 19 July 2000 in Strasbourg and opened for signature of the Member States of the Organisation in Florence (Italy) on 20 October 2000, with the aims to promote European landscape protection, management and planning, and to organise international co-operation. It is the first international treaty to be exclusively devoted to all aspects of landscape. The Convention applies to the entire territory of the Parties and covers natural, rural, urban and peri-urban areas. It concerns landscapes that might be considered outstanding as well as everyday or degraded landscapes.

To date, 39 Council of Europe Member States have ratified the Convention: Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Two States have signed the Convention: Iceland and Malta.

The Convention provides an important contribution to the implementation of the Council of Europe’s objectives, namely to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law and to seek common solutions to the main problems facing European society today. By developing a new territorial culture, the Council of Europe seeks to promote the quality of life for the population.

The aim of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention is to present to the member States of the Council of Europe the progress made in the implementation of the Convention, and practical questions related to its implementation.

The Conference is the means by which the Council of Europe ensures the implementation of the Convention, in accordance with its Article 10. The conclusions of the Conference will be brought to the attention of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape (CDCPP) which will then Report to the Committee of Ministers.

 

MONDAY 6 MAY 2019

Opening of the Conference

Opening speeches

  • Mrs Gabriella BATTAINI-DRAGONI, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
  • Mrs Satu MATTILA-BUDICH, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chair of the Ministers’ Deputies, Permanent Representative of Finland to the Council of Europe
  • Mrs Sanja LJESKOVIC MITROVIC, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, National Representative of the Convention for the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Montenegro
  • Mrs Giuliana de FRANCESCO, Chair of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape of the Council of Europe, Head of the European Multilateral Relations Unit, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
  • Mr Thierry MATHIEU, Chairman of the Democracy, Social Cohesion and Global Challenges Commission of the INGO Conference of the Council of Europe

1. Adoption of the draft agenda

[Document for action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 1E – Draft agenda]

[Document for action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 1E Add. – Draft annotated agenda]

2. General Report of activities on the European Landscape Convention and status of signatures and ratifications

 

Session I – Introductory Session

3. Addresses from representatives of Member States of the Council of Europe and other States

States Parties to the Convention: public policies for the implementation of the Convention at national, regional and local level

[Document for information: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 3Bil.]

Note: Pursuant to Recommendation CM/Rec(2013)4 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the European Landscape Convention Information System of the Council of Europe and its glossary, the Parties to the Convention are invited to update the Information System on the European Landscape Convention one month before this 10th Conference.

During the Conference, the States representatives are invited to present the important actions carried out since the previous Conference (max. 3 min.).

Participants are kindly requested to send the written text of their addresses to the Secretariat of the Council of Europe for the report of the Conference.

Delegations are invited to submit to the Secretariat of the Council of Europe their proposals for the next Chair and Vice-Chair of the Conference, before 17.15 on this day.

States not Party to the Convention

[Document for information: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 3Bil.]

The States representatives are invited to present an address (max. 3 min.).

Participants are kindly requested to send the written text of their addresses to the Secretariat of the Council of Europe for the report of the Conference.

4. Statements of international governmental and non-governmental organisations

[Document for information: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 4Bil.]

Representatives of non-governmental organisations are invited to present a statement (2 min. max.).

Participants are kindly requested to send the written text of their addresses to the Secretariat of the Council of Europe for the report of the Conference.

 

Session II – Landscape and sustainable development

5. Report “Landscape in rural territories in energy, agricultural and demographic transition” and draft recommendation

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 5E – Powerpoint Presentation]

Experiences: Taking landscape into consideration in rural areas
[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 5E Add. – Powerpoint Presentation]

6. Report “Professional recognition of landscape architects” and draft Recommendation

[Document for action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 6E] [Final document: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 6E rev]

7. Report “A review of integrated approaches for landscape monitoring” and draft Reference text

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 7E – Powerpoint Presentation] [Final document: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 7E rev]

8. Report “Landscape and responsibility”

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 8E]

Announcement of the candidatures for the next Chair and Vice-Chair of the Conference, received by the Secretariat.

18.00-20.00 - Palais de l’Europe - Foyer of the Hemicycle

With the participation of

  • Mrs Gabriella BATTAINI-DRAGONI, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
  • Mrs Satu MATTILA-BUDICH, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Chair of the Ministers’ Deputies, Permanent Representative of Finland to the Council of Europe

Exhibition on the Landscape Alliance Award of the Council of Europe

and

In the framework of the Presidency of Finland of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, presentation of a

Photographic exhibition on Finnish landscapes by Mr Tapio Heikkilä

 

TUESDAY 7 MAY 2019

Session III – National policies for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention

9. Council of Europe Observatory for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention: Information System and Platform of Information on the Convention

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 9E]

10. Results of the 19th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention on “The implementation of the European Landscape Convention at local level: local democracy”, Brno, Czech Republic, 5-6 September 2017

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 10E - Intervention]

 

Session IV – Landscape dimension of the public policies and international programmes

11. Results of the 21st Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention “Landscape and Education”, Tropea, Italy, 3-5 October 2018

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 11E – Intervention]

12. Results of the 22nd Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention on “Water, landscape and citizenship in the face of global change”, Seville, Spain, 14-15 March 2019

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 12E – Powerpoint Presentation]

 

Session V – Elections

Elections of the next Chair and Vice-Chair of the Conference [1]

 

Session VI – The Landscape Award of the Council of Europe

13. Report on the 5th Session of the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe and 20th Council of Europe Meeting of the Workshops for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention “Council of Europe Landscape Award Forum of National Selections - 5th Session 2016-2017”, Daugavpils, Latvia, 19-21 June 2018

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 13E]

14. Implementation of the Resolution on the Landscape Award Alliance of the Council of Europe

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 14E]

 

Session VII – Landscape and democracy

15. Draft Recommendation “Landscape and Democracy”

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 15E]

 

Session VIII – Thinking about the landscapes of tomorrow

16. Report “Dry stone in the landscape, ancestral and innovative for sustainable territories” and draft Reference text

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 16E – Powerpoint Presentation] [Final document: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 16E rev]

17. Report “Walking the landscape”

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 17E – Powerpoint Presentation]

18. Report “Forms of thinking and spirituality in some places and traditional cultures around the world”

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 18E]

 

Session IX – Work Programme and Action Plan for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention 2019-2022

19. Draft Work Programme and Action Plan for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention 2019-2022

[Document for information and action: CEP-CDCPP (2019) 19E]

20. Other business

 

Closing of the Conference

  • Mrs Sanja LJESKOVIC MITROVIC, Chair of the Council of Europe Conference on the European Landscape Convention, National Representative of the Convention for the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism, Montenegro
  • Mrs Giuliana de FRANCESCO, Chair of the Steering Committee for Culture, Heritage and Landscape of the Council of Europe, Head of the European Multilateral Relations Unit, Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, Italy
  • Mrs Maguelonne DEJEANT-PONS, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, Council of Europe

Conclusions

  • Mr Matjaž GRUDEN, Director of Democratic participation, Council of Europe

[1]. Appendix 2 to Resolution CM/Res(2011)24 (Article12.d.): “Election of the Chair and Vice-Chair shall require a two-thirds majority at the first ballot and a simple majority at the second ballot. In steering committees, the election shall be held by secret ballot, in other committees by a show of hands, unless a member of the committee requests a secret ballot”.