Environmental Planning and Spatial Planning from a European Community Perspective

Instruments of planning are becoming more and more important as environmental policy instruments, and this at the regional and national policy levels as well as at the European policy level. In this article, environmental policy plannirig (Part II) and spatial policy planning (Part III) will be examined from a European Community perspective. This approach is quite new, especially as regards spatial planning. Therefore, attention will be paid to policy declarations, rules of primary community law and rules of secondary community law. Finally (Part I V), a few suggestions concerning a policy vision and a policy framework will be made, especially as regards spatial planning policy.