Follow-up to the Amsterdam Congress on the European Architectural Heritage (21-25 October 1975)

Resolution 617 (1976)

Author(s):

Parliamentary Assembly

Origin

See Doc. 3755, report of the Committee on Culture and Education. Text adopted by the Standing Committee, acting on behalf of the Assembly on 25 March 1976.

Thesaurus

The Assembly,

1. Recalling its Resolution 579 and Recommendation 742 on future Council of Europe action for conservation of the architectural heritage after 1975 ;

2. Referring to its Recommendation 750, in which it stressed the importance of ensuring "that the momentum thus gained shall be maintained, and that the action of all kinds initiated during the (architectural heritage) campaign shall be continued and further developed in subsequent years" ;

3. Noting with satisfaction that the Amsterdam Congress was a great success for the Council of Europe,

4. Subscribes fully to the terms of the European Charter of the Architectural Heritage, adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 26 September 1975, and of the Amsterdam Declaration ;

5. Instructs its Committee on Culture and Education to report regularly on the implementation of these texts ;

6. Wishes to be closely associated, as in the past, with the work of the intergovernmental Committee on Monuments and Sites which should be reconstituted as from 1976.