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Perform administrative and technical tasks for the needs of the Council for the Management of the Protected Region of Kotor, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Protection of the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor;
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Adopt the Programme for the protection and preservation of the Kotor Region.13
The Kotor Region Management Council is formed to coordinate the protection, conservation and management activities, based on the 2013 Law on Protection of the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor. The competences of the Council are described in detail in the chapter on the management of the Kotor Region.
Key documents Study for the Protection of Cultural Properties Studies for the protection of cultural heritage are the basis for the protection of the value of cultural heritage of a certain region, including its protection within the spatial planning documentation. The 1991 Law on the Protection of Cultural Monuments stipulated that “in order to preserve the urban or historical character or the ambient unit of old towns and settlements” municipalities are obliged to obtain the opinion of the Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments when adopting urban plans. The Law on the Protection of Cultural Properties from 2010 introduced, as a segment of integral protection, the obligation to prepare a Study for the Protection of Cultural Properties, which precedes the preparation of the planning document. The Law states that “The planning document must be harmonized with the Study for the Protection of Cultural Properties and the Management Plan” (Articles 89 and 90). Studies for the protection of cultural heritage in the Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of Kotor have been developed since the 1980s. Immediately after the catastrophic earthquake, a Study for the Protection of Cultural Monuments in Dobrota was prepared during 1979/1980 by experts from Poland. In 1981, within the Municipal Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, a methodology was adopted which envisaged the preparation of a Study for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of the Old Town. Based on the study, the Urban Development Plan of the Old Town of Kotor was made. The author of the study was architect Svetislav Vučenović, who later worked on many other studies. In the period after that, the Municipal, i.e. later the Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Kotor, developed studies of architectural heritage for many settlements within the Kotor Region: Prčanj (1990), Stoliv (1990), Risan (1982), Orahovac and Dražin Vrt (1992), Perast (2002, 2006), Morinj (2008) as well as the study “Treatment of immovable cultural properties in the Spatial Plan and the GUP” (2009). In addition, the Faculty of Architecture in Podgorica developed a Study for the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Kostanjica (2008).14 After all these individual studies, the Study for the Protection of Cultural Properties in the 13 https://www.kotor.me/me/sekretarijat-za-za%C5%A1titu-prirodne-i-kulturne-ba%C5%A1tine--nadle%C5%BEnosti/ 14 Study for the Protection of Cultural Properties in the Municipality of Kotor, 2015-2018
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