Belgian Presidency Programmein the field of spatial planning and territorial

cohesion

Three simple questions:

• How does Belgium work?

• What does Belgium want?(and how does it hope to achieve that?)

• What role does Belgium see for ESPON?

How does Belgium work?

Flanders

Wallonia

Brussels

• Belgian presidency is part of a trio together with Spain and Hungary

• Spatial planning and territorial cohesion are exclusive regional competences

• Belgian members of the ESPON Monitoring Committee:– BRUSSELS : Administration for Spatial Planning– FLANDERS : Department for Spatial Planning– WALLONIA : General Directorate for Spatial Planning

What does Belgium want?

• Foster the debate on Territorial Cohesion in the light of the ratified Lisbon Treaty

• Help with the Territorial Agenda process– Evaluation of the First Action Programme (AP1)– Contribute to the elaboration of the new Territorial

Agenda and Territorial State and Perspective Report

• Reinforce the link between the Territorial Agenda and Sectoral Policies

How does Belgium hope to achieve this?

1. Support the Hungarian EU presidency for its Ministerial meeting on TA and TSP– Territorial Cohesion Contact Points (NTCCP) meeting – Director Generals in charge of the TA (DG) meeting

2. Support the ESPON activities

3. Organize the First Territorial Agenda Annual Conference

4. Promote exchanges of experience– Expert meeting on global challenges in polycentric regions. What role for

strategic spatial planning?– High level seminar on spatial Planning Law in Europe

Agenda

Dates and Places Subjects

28-29 September 2010, NAMUR First Territorial Agenda AnnualConference

08 October 2010, BRUSSELS Expert meeting on globalchallenges in polycentric

regions. What role for strategicspatial planning?

13 October 2010, NAMUR NTCCP Meeting

15 October 2010, BRUGES 18th EEAC Annual Conference onsustainable land use

15-20 November 2010, LIEGE ESPON WEEK

(MC, Internal Seminar and ECP)

30 November 2010, NAMUR DG Meeting

13-14 december 2010, LIEGE High Level Seminar on

Spatial Planning Law in Europe

What role does Belgium see for ESPON?

• ESPON European wide data can be used for a new Territorial Agenda and for national/regional positions = Applied research

• ESPON regional specific data can be used for regional (spatial) policy development = Targeted Analyses

Examples of interesting Targeted Analyses:• Best Metropolis for Brussels• Metroborder for Wallonia • Territorial Performance Monitoring for Flanders

Targeted Analysis in this call:• AMCER has the Flemish administration as a

stakeholder

Martijn De BruijnFlemish government

martijn.debruijn@rwo.vlaanderen.be