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The Alpine Convention
 

The Alpine Convention is a framework agreement for the protection and sustainable development of the Alpine region. It was signed on November the 7th 1991 in Salzburg (Austria) by Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and the EU. Slovenia signed the convention on March the 29th 1993 and Monaco became a party on the basis of a separate additional protocol. The Convention entered into force on March the 6th, 1995.
 




 
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The Convention is informed by the belief that a growing exploitation by human beings may increasingly threaten  the Alpine Region  and its environment: damages can be prevented by harmonising economic and environmental interests. Were the damage to develop, the economic costs and time required to  redress the balance – if possible- would be enormous.

This is why when  meeting for the first time in Berchtesgaden from the  9th to the  11th  of October 1989 the countries of the Alpine Region decided to draft an agreement for the  protection and sustainable development of the Alpine Region. The agreement  was enacted on the 7th of November 1991.

The convention is a positive result and recognises the Alps as a single space in a global context, that is to say one space, its parts – nature, economics and culture - being interdependent. The  specific features of the region contribute to the creation of an identity which requires a super-national protection.



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