Patrimoniul mondial cultural și natural
The world's cultural and natural heritage

Summary/Abstract: The Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage institutes the States' obligation to cooperate for the protection, preservation and good use of the cultural and natural heritage, without prejudicing the real rights provided for by the national legislation in relation to the respective heritage. According to art. 6, par. 2 of the Convention, the States Parties undertake to give their help in the identification, protection, conservation and presentation of the cultural and natural heritage. They undertake not to take any deliberate measures which might damage directly or indirectly the cultural and natural heritage situated on the territory of other States Parties to this Convention. International protection of the world cultural and natural heritage shall be understood to mean the establishment of a system of international co-operation and assistance designed to support States Parties to the Convention in their efforts to conserve and identify that heritage. The national cultural heritage is a form of perennial community property, while the right of a nation to its heritage may not be annulled by any force and law. The national heritage is, par excellence, a collective right and a common property of the people as a whole. It may be pointed out, as a general conclusion, that the individual's right or the community's right can remove by no means the national right in this field. The basis of the individual's or the community's right to a heritage asset shall always and under all circumstances be the national right. The claim of an ethnic community to regulate the issue of ownership of the goods that used to belong to some of its members, outside the norms of the national law, comes to conflict with the principles of the right to heritage.

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