The organisation of Czech archaeology - a socialist legal system applied in a market economy

0463641 - ARÚ 2017 RIV BE eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Mařík, Jan
The organisation of Czech archaeology - a socialist legal system applied in a market economy.
When Valletta meets Faro. The reality of European archaeology in the 21st century. Proceedings of the International Conference Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 March 2015. Namur: Europae Archaeologiae Consilium, 2016 - (Florjanowicz, P.), s. 47-52. EAC Occasional Paper, 11. ISBN 978-963-9911-76-5.
[When Valletta meets Faro. The reality of European archaeology in the 21st century. Lisbon (PT), 19.03.2015-21.03.2015]
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : archaeology * heritage management * legal acts
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

The first legal measures for the protection of archaeological finds in Bohemia and Moravia (historical regions of the Czech Republic) were taken already in the first half of the 19th century. Effective regulation, however, arrived only with the state decree issued in 1941. The current law came into force in 1987. The fundamental political as well as social transformations that occurred in the Czech Republic two years later brought much higher demands for rescue archaeology. Even though the law was created under the conditions of Real Socialism with a centralised and state-controlled economy, it is still, after more than 25 years, valid and applied in a democratic state and free market. Adaptation of the law to new social as well as economic conditions has mostly taken place with the approval of all involved parties. A series of regulations has been adopted that are more or less generally respected; however, their real enforceability relies more on moral appeal than on the letter of the law.
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