European Mountain Areas Charter

The Charter of European Mountain Regions is a resolution that was passed in autumn 1994 to protect the Alps .

history

The European Council always followed the development of the Alpine region and mountain regions in Europe with particular attention. For this reason, he dedicated two large international conferences to him and them in 1978 ( Lugano ) and 1988 ( Trento ). The third of these conferences was originally planned for 1998, but was brought forward to autumn 1994 due to current problems at the time. It took place in Chamonix with great international participation . The central topic of this conference was the discussion and adoption of a "Charter of European Mountain Regions", i.e. a Europe-wide uniformly conceived mountain region policy with region-specific differentiations, which is to be implemented by all new European states and the European Union through the Council of Europe in order to give mountain regions a future To give sense of sustainable development. In addition to the endeavor to place the Alpine policy in the context of the pan-European mountain area policy and thus to enhance it, the initiative was also founded to reduce the distrust of Italian and French politicians towards the Alpine Convention . This was wrongly accused of hostility towards the economy and the dominance of nature conservation. The two differ little from the concept. During the conference, the conflict was settled and the Alpine Convention was defined as the concretization and implementation of the Charter for the Alps.

literature

• Werner Bätzing : Small Alpine Lexicon: Environment • Economy • Culture (=  Beck'sche Series Knowledge . Volume 1205 ). 1st edition. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-42005-2 , p. 73 f .

Web links

• Opinion of the Committee of the Regions on "The European Charter for Mountain Regions" CdR 142/95 . In:EUR-Lex.

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