The Provinces of Parma and Bologna, pursuant to R.L. 20/2000, have drawn up and approved new PTCP's, while administrative proceedings now underway are going to lead to the approval of the PTCP for the Provinces of Forlì-Cesena and Ravenna. In the Emilia-Romagna Region, experience in extended-area territorial planning began to be acquired in the late Eighties (R. L. 36/1988) through the formulation of the infraregional plan schemes. The PTCP's for the Provinces of Piacenza, Modena, Ravenna, Forlì-Cesena and Rimini, that came into force in 1995, developed further planning stages for adapting to the PTPR and R.L. 6/1995. The PTCP's of the Provinces of Ferrara and Reggio Emilia, drawn up according to the provisions of R.L. 6/1995, were put into force in 1997 and 1999, respectively.

Administrative status of structural plans	Ten year periods of validity of the general land use plans in force and PSC's in preparation

The 341 Communes of Emilia-Romagna are putting into effect the principles and contents of the regional land use planning reform through a progressive update of their general land use plans. In June 2004, when many local administrative terms of office expired, a number of plans reached the approval stage, and namely 17 PSC's, 13 RUE's, 5 POC's (4 of them through a unified procedure of reconversion of the existing PRG's); others, 21 PSC's, are at the stage of safeguard, i.e., adopted, and 90 are being prepared; finally, planning conferences have been started or completed at 31 Communes: these conferences are important consensus reaching moments during the construction of the plan.
The law encourages the preparation of plans in associative form through the ratification of territorial agreements between Communes. Over half of these processes saw the direct involvement of Mountain Communities, Unions of Communes and Intercommunal Associations in a spirit of subsidiarity and institutional reorganisation.
Considering the period of adjustment of new planning practices and the fact that many PRG's currently in force will expire during the next regional legislature (2005-2010). this period will be of decisive importance for a full implementation of the law.

In collaboration with Provinces and Local Bodies, the regional observatory of planning concentrates its attention on planning actions and the provisions contained in the communal plans adopted pursuant to the law.
The instruments used by the observatory are periodical reports on planning status and the development of systems for monitoring the contents of the plans.
Concrete actions on the latter aspects have included:
- creating and managing a geographic database, produced with multi-annual working programs shared with the Provinces – Compendiums of the Prg’s – to permit a homogeneous reading of structural planning contents;
- the production of software applications for the consultation and processing of such data - Moka Prg Project;
- the definition of technical guide-lines for the exchange of town planning data in digital format.
The availability of such cognitive tools on town planning facilitates the development of projects based on an integrated evaluation of planning choices, taking precedence over territorial, environmental or sectorial considerations, for instance within the framework of projects such as “Integrated management of coastal zones”, "Enplan – Environmental evaluation of plans and programs "; it also provides useful contributions to plans and services such as the Settlement System of the Regional Territorial Plan or the Regional Atlas of industrial settlements.

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