Establishment of parliamentary heritage groups
- Author(s):
- Parliamentary Assembly
- Origin
- See Doc. 4040, report of the Committee on Culture and Education. Text adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly on 13 December 1977.
- Thesaurus
The Assembly,
1. Recalling that the European Charter of the Architectural Heritage, promulgated jointly by the governments of all the member states of the Council of Europe at the Congress of Amsterdam in 1975, emphasised that Europe's architectural heritage is the common heritage of all her peoples and that they have accordingly a joint responsibility for its protection ;
2. Recognising the duty of every national parliament to provide adequate statutory and administrative powers and financial resources for the protection of this heritage and to ensure their effective use ;
3. Convinced that all countries can benefit from knowledge of the experience of others in dealing with this problem ;
4. Learning with satisfaction that formal or informal all-party committees have been set up in certain parliaments, or are in the process of being set up, for the purpose of promoting the protection of the cultural heritage,
5. Requests its Committee on Culture and Education, in co-operation with the Committee on Parliamentary and Public Relations, to take measures :
to encourage the setting up, in all the parliaments of the member states, of formal or informal all-party parliamentary groups for the protection of the architectural heritage ;
to promote the development of continuing contacts between these groups for the purpose of exchanging ideas and experience.
