scholarly journals PROPOZYCJE ZAŁOŻEŃ DO SYSTEMU SŁUŻB KONSERWATORSKICH – STANOWISKO WOJEWÓDZKICH KONSERWATORÓW ZABYTKÓW

2016 ◽  
pp. 7-13
Author(s):  
Barbara Bielinis-Kopeć

Regional Historic Preservation Officers are of the opinion that monument protection system in Poland needs to be modified. According to them, however, these changes need to be preceded by in-depth analysis of the existing situation, e.g. the condition in which historic monuments and sites are preserved in Poland, the sources of financing works carried out to monuments and sites, the role that historic preservation offices play in administration combined with regional governors, and the current financial and HR situation in specific government bodies.Changes made to the monument protection system should result in improving the conservational state of historic monuments and sites as well as improving functioning of historic preservation service in competence-, organisation-, and finance-related aspects. Furthermore, as a consequence, local government bodies and the society should become more aware of their responsibilities pertaining to historic monuments and sites. The role of local government historic preservation service should be also taken into consideration.According to Regional Historic Preservation Officers, the changes should be aimed at the following: strengthening the office of General Historic Preservation Officer who will shape historic preservation policy in Poland and coordinate actions taken by state and local historic preservation service; subordinating Regional Historic Preservation Officers directly to the General Historic Preservation Officer (within structures of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage); improve the organisational and financial situation in Regional Historic Preservation Offices and adapt it to their needs; developing a model of local government historic preservation service in terms of their competences, organisational structure, and subordinance (control- and merit-related) to Regional Historic Preservation Officers. It is necessary to make legislative changes to the monument protection law not only by issuing clear, uniform, and adoptable regulations but also by correlating regulations pertaining to protection of historic monuments and sites with other existing acts of law. It is also essential to perform comprehensive analysis of the list of Polish monuments and sites (register and record of historic monuments and sites) as well as develop and implement a financial support system for taking care of historic monuments and sites and include properties owned by the state treasury into this system. It must be also emphasised that there is a strong need for increasing social importance of guardianship of monuments and sites and making the society aware of limitations and benefits pertaining to monument protection.

2016 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Jacek Dąbrowski ◽  
Dariusz Jankowski

None of the legal acts applied in the Polish monument protection system, ranging from the Regency Council Decree of 1918 to the Act of 2003, allows for transforming historic monuments and sites. This provision applies, paradoxically, unless a competent historic preservation officer approves such transformations. In other words, under the aforementioned acts, it is possible to make any modification to the existing historic monument or site, provided that a historic preservation officer issues an appropriate permit.Each of these legal acts provides framework for classifying historic monuments and sites, e.g. by introducing various forms of protection, classifying monuments and sites under various categories – immovable, movable, archaeological, etc. Therefore, classification is real.There are so many different historic monuments and sites falling under a great number of categories that it is impossible to provide them with real, even diversified protection. It is therefore necessary to implement sucha classification of historic monuments and sites that would allow state and regional historic preservation officers and representatives of local government administration to carry out actions aimed at protecting properties and places of great historical significance.The recommended classification is a starting point for discussing methods, criteria, and rules governing classification of historic monuments and sites. Additionally, it will ensure appropriate protection.


2016 ◽  
pp. 135-140
Author(s):  
Aleksander Broda ◽  
Marek Konopka ◽  
Halina Landecka ◽  
Katarzyna Zalasińska ◽  
Tadeusz Zielniewicz

The article explores directions of possible changes to be made to the model of monument protection. It not only recommends specific provisions but also focuses on a model understood as a structure of definitions and relations existing among them. This allows for rough description of a selected aspect of reality. The analysis comes down to deliberations on monument protection system, including necessary duties and competences of government and local government administration bodies. Effects of the principle of subsidiarity and decentralisation of Polish historic preservation administration were brought into special focus. Additionally, narrow scope of duties was determined for state and local government administration bodies.


2016 ◽  
pp. 121-132
Author(s):  
Boguslaw Szmygin

Contemporarily, historic monuments and sites are highly diverse and vast in number. This means that each asset and property has different value and, hence, different principles and forms of historic preservation need to be applied.Diversification of historic monuments and sites should be a part of the monument protection system and based on the widely accepted and followed methodology. No single methodology allowing for assessing the value of all historic monuments and sites has been developed yet. For this reason, diversification of historic monuments and sites is not applied in the international doctrinal documents. The most comprehensive method of assesing heritage value has been implemented into UNESCO’s World Heritage system. It consists on comparing assets within a certain reference group, yet it does not involve value gradation.Within the monument protection system, historic monuments and sites can be divided into two major groups, i.e. classes (in terms of the value of an asset or property) and categories (in terms of the specific features of an asset or property).In the Polish system of historic monuments and sites, application of categorisation (typology-based groups) is justified. However, for practical reasons (a risk of protection being depreciated and weakened), classes can be applied in limited scope (valuing groups).


2016 ◽  
pp. 121-128
Author(s):  
Bogusław Szmygin

Since 1989, the system of monument protection in Poland has been adapting to the changes occurring in the Polish political system. Defining the scope of power and duties of historic preservation services is not only a tremendously important element of these changes. It is also a key factor in how the monument protection system functions.The nature of the changes results in stakeholders playing increasingly significant role in protection of monuments and sites – they become major partners to historic preservation services. Moreover, these services may find regional government bodies having broad scope of duties pertaining to monument protection particularly useful.Increasing significance of the role that local government bodies have been playing results in the scope of power and duties of regional historic preservation offices being broadened. Local government bodies are therefore going to participate more actively in the protection of historic monuments and sites. At the same time, their actions should be inspired, planned, and coordinated by regional historic preservation services. Support and supervision, on the other hand, should be provided by state historic preservation service being independent of local government bodies. The state and local government services cannot be therefore considered an alternative – they should fully and closely cooperate with each other. For this reason, cooperation among these services should be promoted and encouraged.


2016 ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
Marcin Gawlicki

The Act of 23 July 2003 on the Protection and Guardianship of Monuments has never been flawless and the historic preservation milieu has been aware of the consequently deteriorating monument protection system. This article explores the following problems existing in the area of cultural heritage: description and evaluation of cultural heritage, document production rules, sources of financing works carried out to heritage, effectiveness of legal processes, professional development of members of staff, organisational structure of historic preservation offices, and cooperation opportunities on different levels of state and local government administration bodies dealing with protection of monuments and sites. While reading questions provided in this article, one may be willing to ponder on directions of expected changes and ways of introducing them in Poland.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 27-29
Author(s):  
Darya V. Tropina ◽  

This article reveals the problems of differentiation of state and local government authorities in the field of agriculture, the problems of legal regulation of local government activities to promote and create conditions for the development of agricultural production, analyzes the experience of various municipalities in the development and implementation of municipal programs for the development of agriculture on a separate territory.


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