MEDITERRANEAN ACTION PLAN

Annexe 1
Résultats des questionnaires
Results of the questionnaires
Relativement sans objet au niveau de la Principauté.
Malte There is a close collaboration between the Ministry of Tourism
and the Planing Authority, which is entrusted to evaluate
development applications for subsequent approval or refusal.
There are no specific joint agreements between the two
institutions. However the two institutions, together with the
Environment Protection Department, collaborated on the
preparation of a policy paper for the development of golf
course.
The Ministry of Tourism is planning to have a new tourism
development plan. Two studies preceding this tourism plan are
an Economic Study and a Tourism Carrying Capacity
Assessment study.
Results: copy of the golf course policy paper. This report was
presented to the Minister of tourism and the Minister of the
Environment.
Slovénie The awareness of the quality of the environment in tourism is
profound, as tourism business knows that the nature and its
resources are of the utmost importance for tourism.
There are official and unofficial meetings between the two
parties in order to discuss the problems and looking for the
solutions.
In some cases, public companies are founded where the
business is run under the rules of the government-public
interest in order to avoid misexploitation of the resources.
The majority of acts and agreements come from national level
while at the local level the practical questions are considered.
Some communities jointly act in order to protect their natural
resources when environmental problems exceed the community
borders.
The main points of these agreements are to protect resources
such as Karst caves, thermal and mineral water, parts of the
rivers, alpine valleys, mountain panoramas, natural botanical
parks and gardens.
Croatie At national level, there is no formal co-operation between
Ministry of Environment and State Directorate for the
Protection of Nature and Environment. But they are
sometimes engaged on the same projects (like the planned
CCA studies for Croatian coastal counties) and through the
Institute for Tourism, which is working on many projects
financed by the both governmental agencies.
At local level, the co-operation between local tourism
organisations and local ecologists is good, and they work in the
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