The opening article in this issue of the journal published by the Portuguese Observatório das Actividades Culturais deals with the dynamics of territorial cultural policies in France, both on a local and on a regional level. Another one discusses the phenomenon of tattooing as body culture.

Worth noting is an article by Wiesand in English presenting ERICarts' Creative Europe project on legal and political conditions governing artistic creativity in Europe.

English and French abstracts are available.