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Recommendation 2038 (2014) Final version
Europe’s endangered heritage
1. The Parliamentary Assembly, with
reference to its Resolution
1981 (2014) on Europe’s endangered heritage, stresses
the importance of heritage in shaping individual and collective
cultural identity and promoting mutual understanding.
2. The Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of
Cultural Heritage for Society (CETS No. 199, “Faro Convention”)
and the European Landscape Convention (ETS No. 176) set a framework
for sound cultural and natural heritage preservation policies. The
Assembly therefore considers that specific activities should be
envisaged to facilitate implementation of these instruments through
technical assistance and exchange of good practice at operational
levels.
3. Moreover, the Assembly strongly believes that there should
be greater coherency of action between the Council of Europe, the
European Union and UNESCO at the European level. In this respect,
the Assembly welcomes the exemplary joint programme and the tangible
results of the “Ljubljana Process”, a joint initiative of the Council
of Europe, the European Union and member States in South East Europe,
which has developed innovative partnerships and pilot actions to
be replicated for the restoration of 186 emblematic monuments and heritage
sites in the region.
4. The Assembly therefore recommends that the Committee of Ministers:
4.1. encourage integrated activities
between culture, heritage, education and youth sectors of the Council
of Europe with a view to providing guidance to the member States
on innovative ways of interlinking heritage with the process of
building democratic citizenship;
4.2. provide support for member States to exchange good practices
based on the standards and principles of the Framework Convention
on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society and provide assistance
to member States in implementing the specific provisions of the
convention;
4.3. continue to support the Council of Europe’s innovative
transversal initiatives through the development of its Technical
Co-operation and Consultancy Programme related to the integrated conservation
of the cultural heritage pilot projects in the member States, by
focusing on needs and requirements related to the conservation or
restoration of monuments, the regeneration of historic towns and
local and regional development;
4.4. continue to support the European Heritage Network (HEREIN)
as a unique network of governmental institutions and a platform
for harmonising and collecting relevant information related to heritage
and developing a shared knowledge base;
4.5. continue to support regional initiatives, including in
South East Europe, the South Caucasus, the Black Sea and other European
regions, with a view to defining regional strategies, strengthening transnational
co-operation and developing specific pilot projects which could
benefit all member States, including in particular the Ljubljana
Process and the community-led urban strategies in historic towns.