Andalusia is expected to approve a new draft cultural heritage law this Monday

The Government Council had already given the go-ahead in February last year. At the start of procedures under the new Cultural Properties Actwhich replaces the current standards on this issue from 2007 in order to strengthen the presence of intangible and industrial heritage and explicitly incorporate audiovisual heritage as a novelty.

As Patricia del Pozo, then Minister of Culture and Sports, explained: The Code of the Future also aims to promote citizen participation and awarenesscombining not only the rationalization of management, but also the promotion of economic activity and maximum respect for heritage values.

According to the board: Regulatory, jurisprudential, and cultural changes recorded at the national level over the past 18 years or so. As an international body, they recommend a “thorough review” of property regulation and its adaptation to current realities.

This standard regards the protection of heritage as a cross-cutting element of the Andalusian Junta’s public activities, incorporating it into policies regarding education, research, territorial planning, urban planning, landscape, water, the environment, protected spaces, sustainability, agriculture, livestock, rural development, tourism, energy, mining, crafts, social services, accessibility and other areas that may affect cultural heritage.

bill Order legal management of Andalusia’s cultural heritage Level of protection of assets (cultural heritage assets, the most relevant assets declared by the Council of Government, cultural heritage assets, assets of special cultural importance declared by the order of the Ministry in charge of the field, and designated by the town council in the city catalogue) Depending on the level of protection of the assets included in the inventory (inventory assets) and whether they are immovable, movable or intangible in nature, they may also incorporate particularities addressing special heritage types such as ethnographic or industrial, as well as rural development.

New category: Cultural Landscape

Moreover, in addition to the traditional categories of real estate (monuments, historical complexes, historical gardens, historical sites, archaeological areas, places of ethnographic interest, places of industrial interest and cultural heritage areas): Cultural landscape is added. This includes areas with socially recognized tangible and intangible values.and cultural routes, i.e. routes that are or have been part of expression and communication in the territory of Andalusia.

At the same time, the Council emphasizes that the regulation of collegial and advisory bodies will be simplified. So, The Andalusian Heritage Council becomes the Andalusian Cultural Heritage Council. And the current Real Estate, Furniture and Ethnology committees will be combined into one called the Cultural Heritage Committee. At the same time, the Archeology and Museums Committee was retained, while the Documentary and Heritage Committee was abolished, as it was no longer needed following the approval of the Archives Act in 2011.

Another novelty is For the first time, a chapter dedicated to World Heritage and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage is created.establishes rules for the processing of initiatives for the World Heritage List and the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list, including the preconditions that properties proposed by autonomous communities must meet.

New titles entirely dedicated to cultural heritage research, education and dissemination will also be introduced. In this sense, research constitutes one of the fundamental and essential elements of property protection. Learn more about our traditions by delving into the values ​​inherent in them. Similarly, facilitation measures such as sponsorship of cultural heritage-related interventions also play an important role.