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Vanoise National Park will celebrate its fiftieth birthday in the coming year. From the very beginning there were rules for the core area, but not for the rest of the Park. The charter is now intended to enable lasting co-operation between the individual municipalities and the Park and define common priorities. "At issue is the solidarity between the National Park and the municipalities of the surrounding areas", says National Park Director Emmanuel Michau. If the municipalities do not sign up, the Park will have no competence within individual municipal areas. Or, in other words, no support, no projects, no money. "It would be a step backwards as we would have to work with a piecemeal action programme", he says. That would suit some, however, as they fear for their economic development and resent interference in their urban planning operations: the Park borders on some major winter sports areas.
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