Preservation of Kotor's status on the UNESCO World Heritage List is the main motive behind the changes to the Law on the Protection of the Natural and Cultural-Historical Area of that city, which was adopted by the Montenegrin Parliament.
The proposal for this law was approved by the government on September 26.
The Minister of Culture, Aleksandar Bogdanović, said then that the creation of this document was preceded by an Action Plan, which also became the Government's strategy in the past period.
"During that period, which lasted three years, we made extremely important decisions and implemented complex activities, so that this year we received significant encouragement and positive assessments from UNESCO from the Committee in Baku. One of them was the introduction of a moratorium on construction, and then "For the first time, the mechanism for preparing the Heritage Impact Assessment was introduced into the national legislation," he said.
Bogdanović said that this document changed the articles regarding the preparation of the Heritage Impact Assessment in terms of clearer guidelines for the procedure.
"The new decision envisages the introduction of a difference in the procedure for the protection zone and for the protected environment/buffer zone, so it is specified that the impact assessments for the buffer zone are defined on the basis of a special act that will be adopted by the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property," said Bogdanović.
According to him, the legal changes additionally define the procedures for making individual assessments for heritage.
"But they also leave room for those procedures to be developed only within the zones defined by a special act by the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Properties," said Bogdanović.
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