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General regulations on the protection and use of the territory - L. 20/2000 Subsidiarity Sustainability Independence Simplification


Regional Law no. 20 of 2000 "General regulations on the protection and use of the territory" updates the relationships between different planning levels and the tasks of the different institutional levels. According to the principle of subsidiarity, the Region defines the overall goals for the development and protection of the regional territorial system, the Province carries out planning functions for fostering inter-communal interests or functions which cannot be effectively performed at municipal level in the fields of the environment, infrastructures and human settlements; all remaining responsibilities are up to the city government. A hierarchy of institutional levels is replaced with institutional consensus, which is reached through: the planning conference, at which strategic and structural decisions undergo a joint preliminary evaluation with the public administrations and the bodies sharing responsibilities for the exercise of planning functions; the planning agreements, a set of elements serving as parameters to make planning decisions; territorial agreements where the different bodies agree on objectives and choices and coordinate the implementation of the plans.
Orthophotomap of the Emilia Romagna Region,. aerial view

According to the principle of sustainability, within the framework of the drafting and approval of their plans, the bodies concerned carry out a preventive evaluation of their choices in terms of environmental and territorial sustainability, pin down possible adverse impacts and indicate appropriate measures to mitigate such effects.

Topography of Stati Estensi 1821 - 1828, IBACN

The principles of independence and simplification inspire the procedures of self-approval for plans and the Sole Chart of the Territory, the only reference documents for plan implementation and building activity conformity checks.

Land division in the surroundings of Cesena - 1894

Municipal land use planning instruments have been updated and consist of:
- The Communal Structural Plan (PSC) - an instrument that remains in force for an indeterminate period of time and is subject to the attainment of institutional consensus, having a strategic and structural significance
- the Building Land Planning Regulations (RUE) - an instrument that provides regulations on building activities and governs the conditions of those urbanised and rural lands that are not subjected to substantial land use planning changes
- the Communal Operational Plan (POC) - a flexible and operational instrument for the choices contained in the PSC for those parts of the territory affected by programmed, substantial land-use planning changes over a five year time span.


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