During last 40 years several original landscape-ecological methods have been elaborated in Slovakia. This forms good bases for landscape planning nowadays. In spite of the long-term experience with elaboration of landscape plans, legal framework was anchored to the Slovak legislation only by amendment of the Building Code (Act No. 237/2000). In the period 2003 – 2006 preparatory works on a proposal of the Landscape Planning Act were realised. The act proposal was built upon positive experience acquired in the field of landscape planning at home and aslo abroad and its "philosophical” basis was the LANDEP methodology (Landscape Ecological Planning), oriented to ecological optimisation of landscape use. To that methodological basis other methodologies also entered, aimed at evaluation of landscape image, landscape character, visual impact of human activities on the landscape, delineation of landscape types, procedures of integrated landscape management, procedures of valuation of environmental quality, environmental security etc. In 2007, based on a new negotiation between the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Construction and Regional Planning, preparation of the Act on Landscape Planning was stopped. Selected requirements of landscape planning will be integrated into the new Building Code. At the same time the amendment of the Act on Nature and Landscape Protection containing landscape planning principles is in the preparation process.