The article deals with the idea of an effective landscape planning system as a background of sustainable development. The process of landscape planning must meet the requirements of the European Landscape Convention. The prerequisites are: 1) official regulations for landscape policy on state level, 2) a strong component of natural and cultural landscape use and protection in all territorial (land-use) plans, 3) development of special landscape management plans, 4) landscape ecological background for all strategic plans or programs. The concept of landscape and the main landscape planning paradigms (eco-geographical and architectural) must be employed for determination of the landscape potential. An original coherent system of the integrated landscape design tasks is presented as a basis of the general landscape policy.

A new planning approach is necessary to the national and regional planning of ecological landscaping, associated with approved principles of sustainable state landscape policy, implementation of a special legal system of landscape management models, an integrated spatial concept with determination of land use strategies and a large-scale system of priorities, as well as the legal concept of a special landscape planning methodology. Planning in landscape ecology, especially in natural systems, is the basis of increasing its quality.

Keywords: landscape planning, landscape ecology, sustainable development