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An agreement for the landscape - ART. 46 della L.R. 31/2002

The Agreement between the Ministry of cultural assets and activities, the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Association of local Autonomies, drawn up pursuant to art. 46 of R.L. no. 31 of 25 November 2002, is designed to bring about a different way of addressing the protection of the environment on the basis of the guide-lines arising from the European Convention on Landscape, which defined a different cultural and regulatory approach to the landscape.
Signed in Rome on 9 October 2003, the Agreement lays the foundations for a more rational and more effective protection of the landscape through the development of better tools and methods for the verification of territorial transformations and project quality.


The themes of the agreement
The Agreement promotes the start of a process of collaboration and consensus reaching between the institutions, based on new relationships where all parties are equal. Innovative working methods and trial projects are promoted, such as shared planning, integration of protective instruments, streamlining and simplification of the procedures, allocation of a different role to the state derived system of constraints, improved evaluation of transformations, promotion of pilot projects and training activities, creation of interoperable databases.


Experimentation laboratory
In keeping with the activities contemplated in the Code of cultural assets and the landscape, (Law Decree. no. 42/2004), the pilot projects envisaged by the Agreement are proposed as a laboratory of experiences to be propagated in the daily practices for the management of the protection of such assets and to be used as a model for the future renewal of landscape planning instruments. Based on the collaboration of the Ministry for cultural assets and activities, the regional Management for territorial programming and mobility systems, the Control Authorities of the Sectors and the local administrations, and with the support of the Emilia-Romagna Association of local autonomies, projects underway in a number of Communes and Provinces are designed to review landscape constraints, gather information on identity-related resources, define management models, enhance and requalify the landscape.
• Extending the concept of landscape to the entire territory
• Asserting the value of the landscape
• Strengthening identities and differences
• Integration of conservation policies
• Centrality of landscape planning
• Definition of quality objectives
• Citizen participation
• Opportunities for the development of local systems
• Monitoring transformations
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