In the case of trees and shrubs, protecting plant health is essential for the preservation of the Union's forests, landscape and public and private green.

It encompasses a specific way of life, a way of sharing food and enjoying it in company that is linked to a certain type of landscape and territory as well as to societies that, over the centuries, have developed culture, art, traditions and festivals around the concept of the Mediterranean diet.

Combining rail and road has proven its merits[12]: less use of space, joint engineering structures, lower visual impact on and less fragmentation of the landscape, measures to soften the impact of joint infrastructures (anti-noise protection, viaducts for large and small wildlife).

(ii) encourage the emergence and spread of new forms of expression, within and alongside traditional cultural fields (such as music, the performing arts, the plastic and visual arts, photography, architecture, literature, books, reading, the cultural heritage including the cultural landscape and children's culture);

(ii) encourage the emergence and spread of new forms of expression, within and alongside traditional cultural fields (such as music, the performing arts, the plastic and visual arts, photography, architecture, literature, books, reading, the cultural heritage including the cultural landscape and children's culture).

Elementary survival techniques to enable people to escape from destitution and achieve a decent standard of living by creating local income need to be identified, disseminated, protected as far as intellectual property rights are concerned, and occasionally supplemented by the use of ultra-modern products or techniques. These survival techniques include proper use of waste, recycling skills, new varieties for market gardening and town gardens, "drop by drop watering", a whole range of hygiene techniques, etc. This vast field deserves to be fully explored on a scientific basis ...[+++], both in sociological and technological terms.