The main purpose of the article is to present the idea of effective legal landscape planning governance system as a background of sustainable and balanced development. It is one of the most important prerequisites realising the principle of sustainability for national and regional level. The process of development of regional policy must meet the requirements of European Landscape Convention. It is necessary to have: 1) official regulations for landscape policy on state level, 2) 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 regional strategic plans or programs. Landscape concept and main landscape planning paradigms (eco-geographical, architectural, optimization) are discussed with clarifying the aspects and criteria system for determination of landscape potential. An original coherent system of the integrated landscape design tasks is presented as a basis of general landscape policy. It is remarkable, that Lithuania has obtained important new experience in the field of ecological "landscaping" its regional planning, associated with approved principles of state landscape policy, implementation of special legal system of landscape management models, integrated spatial concept with determination of land use strategies and large scale priorities system, as well as legal concept of special landscape plan methodology. We can recognize as a positive phenomenon the outburst of regional planning after the Master Plan of Lithuania was adopted, therefore landscape ecology and multivariable landscape research is an evident basis of increasing of its quality.
