▪ Guiding principles for sustainable spatial development of the European Continent
Recommendation of 30 January 2002 - Part V Paragraph 4 is dedicated to mountain areas (Rec(2002)1)
▪ Principles of a strategy for tourism development in mountain regions
▪ Ecological Charter for mountain regions in Europe
▪ Endangered Alpine regions
▪ Economic and social problems of mountain regions
▪ Sustainable development of mountain regions
▪ Introduction of a quality label for food products derived from hill farming
▪ Quality label for mountain resorts in Europe
▪ Draft European Charter of mountain regions
▪ Transalpine traffic
▪ European regional planning and the role and function of Alpine regions
▪ European functions of the Alpine regions
▪ Farming in moutain areas
▪Sustainable development of mountain regions and the experience of the Carpathians mountains
▪ Challenges and opportunities for peripheral and sparsely populated regions
▪ International Year of Mountains - a new political projet for Europe's mountains: turning disinherited mountain areas into a ressource
▪ Cooperation of the Alpine regions
▪ Rural and agricultural regions and mountain regions
▪ Guidance for Parties on biodiversity and climate change in mountain regions
▪ Conservation of natural areas outside protected areas proper
Recommendation of 6 December 1991 - Part VI Paragraph 2 is dedicated to mountain areas (25)
POLICY
▪ International Conference "Sustainable development of the Carpathians and other European mountain regions"
▪ Conference "Sustainable development of mountain regions, European transit policy and the challenge of globalisation"
▪ European Charter on Water Resources, 17 October 2001
This Charter doesn't mention mountain areas in a specific binding disposition but explains in Paragraph 1 how the whole text is relevant to them :
“Fresh water constitues only 2.7% of the Earth's overall water mass, and to a large extent it is in a frozen state in the polar caps and the snow cover of high mountains”.
▪ 3rd European Conference of Mountain Regions