Description

The CUB works to define the role of urban planners in line with society’s changing expectations and relationships with related professional circles, as well as their specific areas of expertise and recognition of their practice.

Missions

1. Defining the requirements for practising the profession:
   • quality of the profession and the professional practice of urban planners;
   • strengthening, within its fields of action, the links between continuing education, teaching, research and the conditions for practising the profession;
   • Intervening on its own initiative or at the invitation of public authorities regarding changes to the legal framework governing the practice of the profession (services subject to approval and their conditions, public procurement, social legislation, etc.).
2. Organisation and defence of the profession:
   • professional recognition of the urban planning profession;
   • drafting a code of ethics and monitoring compliance with it;
   • obtaining the status of a qualifying body for mutual recognition between professional unions of urban planners for their free professional movement within the European Union;
   • establishing and defending scale recommendations and model agreements;
   • Ongoing negotiations with third parties involved in the profession (insurance, working conditions, etc.), conducive to the pooling of preferential conditions.
3. Organising the visibility of the profession:
   The CUB represents its members before:
   • public authorities at European, federal, regional, supra-municipal and municipal levels;
   • related professional organisations;
   • the academic world and continuing education bodies;
   • the media and the general public.
4. Representation of the CUB within other bodies:
   • The CUB submits formal opinions at the invitation of public authorities, either directly or through its members appointed to public authority support committees, such as the Regional Planning Unit, the Appeals Advisory Committee, etc.

Affiliations

• the European Council of Spatial Planners (CEU-ECTP) as a full member;
• the Union of Liberal and Intellectual Professions (UNPLIB);

The CUB acts, through its members, within its subsidiary structures, such as the non-profit organisation ‘For Urban Passion’.