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already protected, or in respect of which protection proceedings have been instituted, as well as any scheme affecting their surroundings;

b) Requires the submission to a competent authority of any scheme affecting a group of buildings or a part thereof or a site which involves:

Demolition of buildings; The erection of new buildings; Substantial alterations which impair the character of the buildings or the site;

c) Permits public authorities to require the owner of a protected property to carry out work or to carry out such work itself if the owner fails to do so;

d) Allows compulsory purchase of a protected property.

ARTICLE 5

Each Party undertakes to prohibit the removal, in whole or in part, of any protected monument, except where the material safeguarding of such monuments makes removal imperative. In these circumstances the competent authority shall take the necessary precautions for its dismantling, transfer and reinstatement at a suitable location.

Ancillary measures

ARTICLE 6

Each Party undertakes:

1) To provide financial support by the public authorities for maintaining and restoring the architectural heritage on its territory, in accordance with the national, regional and local competence and within the limitations of the budget available;

2) To resort, if necessary, to fiscal measures to facilitate the conservation of this heritage;

3) To encourage private initiatives for maintaining and restoring the architectural heritage.

ARTICLE 7

In the surroundings of monuments, within groups of buildings and within sites, each Party undertakes to promote measures for the general enhancement of the environment.

ARTICLE 8

With a view to limiting the risks of the physical deterioration of the architectural heritage, each Party undertakes:

1) To support scientific research for identifying and analysing the harmful effects of pollution and for defining ways and means to reduce or eradicate these effects;

2) To take into consideration the special problems of conservation of the architectural heritage in anti-pollution policies.

Sanctions

ARTICLE 9

Each Party undertakes to ensure within the power available to it that infringements of the law protecting the architectural heritage are met with a relevant and adequate response by the competent authority. This response may in appropriate circumstances entail an obligation on the offender to demolish a newly erected building which fails to comply with the requirements or to restore a protected property to its former condition.

Conservation policies

ARTICLE 10

Each Party undertakes to adopt integrated conservation policies which:

1) Include the protection of the architectural heritage as an essential town and country planning objective and ensure that this requirement is taken into account at all stages both in the drawing up of development plans and in the procedures for authorising work;

2) Promote programmes for the restoration and maintenance of the architectural heritage;

3) Make the conservation, promotion and enhancement of the architectural heritage a major feature of cultural, environmental and planning policies;

4) Facilitate whenever possible in the town and country planning process the conservation and use of certain buildings whose intrinsic importance would not warrant protection within the meaning of article 3, paragraph 1, of this Convention but which are of interest from the point of view of their setting in the urban or rural environment and of the quality of life;

5) Foster, as being essential to the future of the architectural heritage, the application and development of traditional skills and materials.

ARTICLE u

Due regard being had to the architectural and historical character of the heritage, each Party undertakes to foster:

The use of protected properties in the light of the

needs of contemporary life; The adaptation when appropriate of old buildings

for new uses.

ARTICLE 12

While recognising the value of permitting public access to protected properties, each Party undertakes to take such action as may be necessary to ensure that the consequences of permitting this access, especially any structural development, do not adversely affect the architectural and historical character of such properties and their surroundings.