Dataset Direct Download Service (WFS): Perimeters of countries in the department of Marne

Established by the Law on Guidance for the Planning and Development of the Territory (L.O.A.D.T., known as the Pasqua Law) of 4 February 1995, the concept of a country was specified in the Law on Guidance for the Planning and Sustainable Development of the Territory (L.O.A.D.D.T. No. 99-533, known as the Voynet Law) of 25 June 1999 and its implementing decree (Decree No. 2000-909 of 19/09/2000). A country, within the meaning of the Act of 4 February 1995, is a territory with geographical, cultural, economic or social coherence. The law of 25 June 1999 makes the country a real project territory, based on local will. The country is thus a project space for which public and private actors build from local potential a sustainable development project. On the basis of the delimitation of a study area agreed by the Prefect of the Region, a development council is set up to draw up a charter of sustainable development of the country and formulate an opinion on any question of spatial planning of the country. Subsequently, a management structure is set up, the country’s managing body, which translates the guidelines of the charter into an action programme, the country contract.