Land policy guidelines according to the Development Planning System Law is a medium-term (for 7 years) national policy planning document, which defines strategic goals, action policies and operational principles in land use. The purpose of such a document is to preserve land as a national treasure, to balance the interests of various sectors in land use, ensure increase circular and multifunctional land use.
The Land policy guidelines are a medium-term development planning document that is approved by a legal act (government decision). The guidelines are not legally binding, but it can serve as a basis for the development and adoption of a normative act. Likewise, the tasks and measures included in the guidelines are binding on the relevant institutions.

In the German-speaking Community of Belgium, the Law on Rural Development is the only binding policy instrument. The Spatial Development Code applicable in the German-speaking Community is based on the corresponding Walloon legal texts. It forms the framework for ensuring sustainable and attractive spatial development. Its aim is to meet and anticipate the various needs of the general public. It is in need of fundamental reform. Many of its provisions are based on outdated approaches and planning cultures. This third phase is now beginning. The first steps have been taken. Eight overarching spatial planning objectives and a draft spatial strategy with proposals for further instruments to implement the objectives have been developed. The most important cornerstones of the desired and future-oriented spatial development are summarised under the motto KOMMpaktLAND: communication, compact settlement development and priority for landscape concerns. East Belgium should remain an attractive place to live and work.

The eight spatial planning objectives are:
- Maintaining the quality of life and a strong business location
- Priority for landscape interests
- Minimization of land consumption
- Well-functioning, adaptable and liveable towns and villages
- Sustainable, climate-friendly and resilient spatial and settlement development
- Planning in favor of the mobility transition
- Strengthening the architectural culture
- Communication, awareness-raising and participation.

The strategy for Normandy’s ERDF ESF+ JTF Program 2021-2027 is two-pronged: it includes medium- and long-term structural investments which address the major challenges identified by European and regional guidelines in depth while maintaining adaptability to respond to not-yet-identified effects of the Covid 19 pandemic.
The program is structured around 7 priorities, including the service’s focus, Priority 5: "Responding to the development needs of Normandy's territories by promoting the participation of their populations and stakeholders.”
Two specific objectives derive from priority 5: "Territorial development in urban (5.1) and non-urban (5.2) areas".
Within this framework, the ERDF specifically supports:
- Projects to rehabilitate industrial and contaminated brownfield sites, including those aimed at restoring biodiversity; and
- Planning and redevelopment projects for public spaces with a strong focus on the environment to better adapt to the effects of climate change.

The main phenomena that threaten the quality and integrity of natural environment are pollution, irrational occupation of natural environment and land contamination through inadequate waste storage practices. Within the 3rd Strategic Objective of the County Territorial Development Plan dedicated to boosting the efficiency of the man-environment relation against the background of ecological and sustainable natural resources exploitation, the 3rd Development Direction covers the Development of integrated waste management systems and the reduction of waste environmental impact. Its main specific objectives are:
- the development of integrated waste management systems
- the ecological reconstruction of areas affected by mining activities
- the optimization of waste management
The Maramureș County Council is currently implementing an important project in the field of integrated waste management systems. However, there is a need to exchange know-how with more developed regions in order to improve local waste management. The international exchange of cases studies and best practice scenarios will lead to deepening our understanding of the management of waste contaminated land and help us efficiently tackle the newly arisen dimensions of the phenomenon. Our priority in such concern is turning the project learning process based on experience exchange into the engine that inspires the development of up to date innovative approches to land sobriety.

According to the Federal Spatial Planning Act, the entire Free State of Thuringia and its sub-regions are to be developed, organized and secured through comprehensive, supra-local and interdisciplinary spatial planning plans, including their implementation and the coordination of spatially significant plans and measures. As an interdisciplinarymaster plan, the State Development Program (LEP) 2025 contains normative specifications on the one hand and programmatic suggestions for spatial state development on the other. It sets out the medium-term guidelines for the development of the Free State of Thuringia. These guidelines form the programmatic-strategic basis for all subsequent planning, which is carried out by four state planning authorities within their planning districts. Another structural element of the LEP 2025 is the spatial planning requirements. This is the central control-effective part of the program with the objectives and principles of spatial planning. Thuringia is facing major challenges, particularly with regard to demographic change, the energy transition, transportation, industrial transformation ... . The LEP 2025 makes it clear that Thuringia is taking on these challenges, preserving the diversity of the Thuringian landscape and at the same time shaping the changes in a sustainable way. The plan is updated on an ongoing basis, thus the adjustments to the LEP are expected to begin towards the end of the strategy process in 2027 and will take several years

The landscape protection function regulated by the urban planning law is exercised in accordance with the landscape map, as possibly explored and interpreted by the territorial plans of the communities, with the planning guidelines. The two reference articles that are the subject of the policy instrument subjected to review are articles 37 "Agricultural areas" and 38 "Valuable agricultural areas" of provincial law no. 5/2008 and relate to the authorizations of building interventions in the two types of areas mentioned above. Building authorizations and the constraints for their issuance are governed by: regulations, resolutions and criteria. In terms of objectives, the policy instrument aims to achieve an optimal balance between the needs of producing manufactured goods or building and the conservation of the agricultural landscape. In particular, with regard to valuable agricultural areas defined as areas characterized by particular landscape importance and environmental protection, criteria are identified that allow the evaluation of the opportunity of reducing these areas and the constraints deriving for the purposes of compensation of the transformed soil.

The Greek NSRF 2021-2027 and the Regional Program for Western Macedonia (Dytiki Makedonia) identifies as areas for the implementation of Integrated Spatial Investments areas with thematic and/or spatial continuity, the possibility of exploiting wealth-producing resources and special local characteristics (cultural, local production and sustainable tourism activities) and with the possibility of synergy with other means policy (e.g. in Natura 2000 areas).
The policy instrument is the Program Dytiki Makedonia 2021-2027, the selected Specific objective is: RSO5.2. Strengthening integrated and inclusive social, economic and environmental local development, of culture, natural heritage, sustainable tourism and security in non-urban areas (ERDF).
The main objective of RSO5.2 is synergies that will be sought in the field of Environmental Regeneration, focusing on the restoration of degraded areas & facilities, the readjustment of their use, the protection of ecosystems & the natural environment that are promoted from the Greek Just Transition Program.
Main priorities set are: Waste sorting and recycling actions, creation and management of green areas, Protection, promotion and management of nature and biodiversity, Actions to protect, develop and promote public property and land, Upgrading the intra-regional network and promoting accessibility.
The main characteristic of the instrument is that all the interventions should be aligned with the national sectoral & regional policies.

Strategic environmental protection programme covers the years 2021-2027, consistent with the period of validity of the ‘Małopolska 2030’ Strategy, as well as the European Funds for the years 2021-2027. The overarching goal of the Programme is high environmental quality and striving for climate neutrality, stemming from the regional strategy.
This objective is to be achieved through, among others, mitigation of climate change; water management; protection of biodiversity and landscape; and environmental education. The structure of the document consists of areas and directions of intervention as well as activities aimed at implementing the regional environmental policy. The programme is implemented in four priority areas of intervention. One of them is sustainable use of the environment, which aims to protect biodiversity, landscape values and sustainable tourism and forest management. This area of the Programme (intervention directions and activities) will be addressed by the project results.
The Programme contains a diagnosis of the state of the environment by individual components and designated areas and directions of intervention and actions to implement the environmental policy of the voivodeship. The programme document was subject to consultations to ensure broad public participation in its final form. Work on preparing an update of the Strategic environment protection programme will start in 2026 and will also include a phase of broad consultation.