Just as poor land use decisions can generate increased traffic, increased traffic and mobility can encourage poor land use decisions in response to demands to ease congestion for instance.

Just as poor land use decisions can generate increased traffic, increased traffic and mobility can encourage poor land use decisions in response to demands to ease congestion for instance.

A separate Communication "Planning and Environment - the Territorial Dimension", is in preparation and will deal with rational land-use planning, as addressed by the 6th Environment Action Programme.

However, a limited number of differences will remain, as Phare and the Structural Funds are still quite different in their objectives and procedures.The participation of candidate countries in INTERREG III B will strengthen co-operation between them and Member States, and of their regions - including border regions - on regional development and land-use planning; co-operation may cover the provision of information for national, regional or local authorities on regional and land-use planning policy, and, where appropriate, the provision of assistance for the formulation of such policy.

Although not in itself a spatial planning instrument, the obvious spatial dimension of the River Basin Management approach calls for close cooperation with planning authorities and integration with land use measures.

Article 1 France shall not award exceptional regional planning grants in the former PAT areas in the departments of Eure, Sarthe, Doubs and the Territoire de Belfort as such aid is not compatible with the common market within the meaning of Article 92 of the EEC Treaty.