Integration into sectorial policies

Recent policy developments include the sectors of transport, regional planning and - most importantly - agriculture. In the field of agriculture, landscapes have become policy issues both the European and the global level. In 1998, European Commission launched a FAIR research project on agri-environmental indicators and took the lead on the topic of landscape indicators during the event of an OECD Indicator Workshop in York, September 1998. The paper presented by ECNC (Wascher et al., 1998) was the starting point of integrating landscape as an environmental concern at the level of OECD and ultimately of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The workshop led to the inclusion of 3 landscape indicators and the request to provide internationally standardised geo-references for landscapes.