1. Council of Europe (CE)

Abstract

At the 1260th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies on 15 June, the Committee of Ministers adopted Resolution CM/Del/Dec(2016)1260/7.2-app5 on the Protocol amending the European Landscape Convention (ELC) (ETS no. 176). The aim of the Protocol amending ELC (ETS no. 219) is to promote European cooperation with non-European states that wish to implement the provisions of the ELC by opening the ELC to their accession (opening of the treaty to ratification, acceptance, or approval by the parties to the ELC on 1 August). The articles of the protocol read as follows: Article 1 ... Article 2 ... Article 3 ... Article 4 ... Article 5 ... Article 6 ... Article 7 ... Article 8 – Ratification, acceptance or approval, entry into force ... Article 9 – Notification ... The workshops for the implementation of the ELC (ELC workshops) met twice in 2016. The seventeenth CE meeting of the ELC workshops was held in Hungary, Budapest, on 9–10 June and the eighteenth CE meeting of the ELC workshops was held in Yerevan, Armenia, on 5–6 October. Three ELC workshops were organized during the seventeenth meeting: landscape to be protected (actions to conserve and maintain the significant or characteristic features of a landscape); landscape to be managed (actions, from a perspective of sustainable development, to guide and harmonize changes); and landscapes to be planned (strong, forward-looking actions to enhance, restore, or create landscapes). Four ELC workshops were organized during the eighteenth meeting: the national landscape policy of Armenia; strategies and policy documents in favour of the landscape; legal and financial instruments; and horizontal and vertical coordination.