ICOMOS International Scientific
Committee on Legal, Administrative
And Financial Issues

 

Member States should, as far as possible, take all necessary scientific, technical and administrative, legal and financial measures to ensure the protection of the cultural and natural heritage in their territories. Such measures should be determined in accordance with the legislation and organization of the State.   From Recommendation Concerning the Protection, at National Level, of the Cultural and Natural Heritage, UNESCO, 1972.

 

The ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Legal, Administrative and Financial Issues is one of 20 international working groups of the International Council on Monuments and Sites. Its objective is to promote, consistent with the aims of ICOMOS, international cooperation in the identification, study and solution of legal, administrative and financial issues in connection with the protection, maintenance and conservation of monuments, groups of buildings and site. 

Statutes/Statuts/Estatutos
Adopted 1997

Committee Background  and Work Program

The Committee was established in April, 1997 at a conference in Weimar, Germany.   At that conference a number of topics and problems were identified for discussion on a comparative international level.  Subsequent conferences  have addressed identified topics.

Membership Directory

A list of committee members and contact information.


Committee President

Dr. James K. Reap
Dean Rusk Center of International 
  & Comparative Law
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia 30602
USA
Tel: 1.404.378.5933
Fax: 1.706.542.7822
E-mail: jreap@mindspring.com

Secretary General

Gideon Koren
Ben-Zvi, Koren & Co.
Law Offices
8 Ben-Maymon St.
Jerusalem 94187
Tel.: 972-2-5619111
Fax: 972-2-5667780

 

For information on ICOMOS

For further information on this page or the International Legal Committee, contact James K. Reap.

This page last updated July 29, 2004.