As it is well-known, Poland can boast o f unique in the world
initiatives on preservation, revaluation and protection o f cultural
values. Despite o f that, the number o f historic buildings in the
country is getting lower and lower, while the number o f monuments
completly ruined and devastated or just neglected is increasing.
Main causes o f failures in counteracting the devastation o f historic
buildings are insufficient repressive measures on the one hand
and shortcomings o f the law binding in the field o f the protection
o f monuments on the other. The amendment o f the Decree of
February 15, 1968 ,,On the Protection o f Works o f Art and on
Museums” (Dz. U. No 10, item 48) has thus become a must and
should be aimed at raising the rank o f decisions taken by conservators
and securing their full execution. The Decree o f June
17, 1966 on executive procedures in the administration (Dz. U.
No 24, item 151) secures the execution, i.e. carrying out o f the
order or ban expressed in the conservator’s decision. So, the conservator
is not powerless against checks on part o f users from
either a private or socialized sector; he may simply enforce their
submission. However, none o f conservators has as yet made in
fact use o f that weapon and thus in practice the law binds on
paper only. As for penalty repression applied in cases of devastation,
destroying and lawless demolition o f old buildings, then we
must consider it as unsatisfactory or totally non-existent. The
conservator o f historic monuments should more thoroughly examine
every singular instance o f a historic monument being devastated,
with a view to advise o f it the public prosecutor’s office.
The system of the protection o f works o f art against devastation
and their irreversible loss is composed o f a few elements at least.
In the first place we should mention economic and financial resources
allocated for that purpose, proper personnel o f highly
qualified conservators in the number meeting actual needs, providing
them with adequately equipped workshops, further
promotion o f the front o f social support for the idea o f the protection
o f historic monuments, and finally, the law binding in this
field. The law plays a significant, albeit not all important role in
the system. A successful functioning o f the entire system depends
on a faultless operation o f individual elements, mutually dovetailed
and harmonously interlinked. There is no need o f exchanging any
o f the elements and replacing it with a nee one, because as yet
it has not been installed and one cannot say how it will be operating
in future. And so, instead of amending let us all try fully
observe the rules.
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