11th legal heritage days : French heritage and its environment

Morning:
Financing the protection of the environment : mere chatter ? No, a great cause

Afternoon:
Local protection of heritage : from legal concept to practice

Towns, the last rung on the administrative ladder, can now set up protection measures for heritage sites within their boundaries. This is a new measure and is symptomatic of a paradigm shift: whilst historically public procedures on historic monuments are drawn up by the State against the will of local authorities, which are often seen as excessive, the new measure hands over responsibility to local assemblies with regards to the protection of ancient buildings and steers local planning according to heritage priorities.
Ministries, local and national elected officials, private owners, law experts will confront their points of view and shed light on the issues at stake relating to the new local protection measure.