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20 DE MARÇO DE 1997

440-(3)

Article 3

To preserve the archaeological heritage and guarantee the scientific significance of archaeological research work, each Party undertakes:

i) To apply procedures for the authorisation and supervision of excavation and other archaeological activities in such a way as:

a) To prevent any ilicit excavation or removal of elements of the archaeological heritage;

b) To ensure that archaeological excavations and prospecting are undertaken in a scientific manner and provided that:

-Non-destructive methods of investigation are applied wherever possible;

-The elements of the archaeological heritage are not uncovered or left exposed during or after excavation without provision being made for their proper preservation, conservation and management;

ii) To ensure that excavations and other potentially destructive techniques are carried out only by qualified specially authorised persons;

Hi) To subject to specific prior authorisation, whenever foreseen by the domestic law of the State, the use of metal detectors and any other detection equipment or process for archaeological.investigation.

Article 4

Each Party undertakes to implement measures for the physical protection of the archaeological heritage, making provision, as circumstances demand:

i) For the acquisition or protection by other appropriate means by the public authorities of areas intended to constitute archaeological reserves;

ii) For the conservation and maintenance of the archaeological heritage, preferably in situ;

Hi) For appropriate storage places for archaeological remains which have been removed from their original location.

Integrated conservation of the archaeological heritage

Article 5 Each Party undertakes:

i) To seek to reconcile and combine the respective requirements of archaeological and development plans by ensuring that archaeologists participate:

a) In planning policies designed to ensure well-balanced strategies for the protection, conservation and enhancement of sites of archaeological interest;

b) In the various stages of development . schemes;

ii) To ensure that archaeologists, town and regional planners systematically consult one another in order to permit:

a) The modification of development plans likely to have adverse effects on the archaeological heritage;

b) The allocation of sufficient time and resources for an appropriate scientific study to be made of the site and for its findings to be published;

Hi) To ensure that environmental impact assessments and the resulting decisions involve full consideration of archaeological sites and their setting;

h>) To make provision, when elements of the archaeological heritage have been found during development work, for their conservations in situ when feasible;

v) To ensure that the opening of archaeological sites to the public, especially any structural arrangements necessary for the reception of large numbers of visitors, does not adversely affect the archaeological and scientific character of such sites and their surroundings.

The financing of archaeological research and conservation

Article 6 Each Party undertakes:

. i) To arrange for public financial support for archaeological research from national, regional and local authorities in accordance with their respective competence;

ii) To increase the material resources for rescue archaeology:

a) By taking suitable measures to ensure that provision is made in major public or private development schemes for covering, from public sector or private sector resources, as appropriate, the total costs of any necessary related archaeological operations;

b) By making provision in the budget relating to these schemes in the same way as for the impact studies necessitated by environmental and regional planning precautions, for preliminary archaeological study and prospection, for a scientific summary record as well as for the full publication and recording of the findings.

Collection and dissemination of scientific information

Article 7

For the purpose of facilitating the study of, and dissemination of knowledge about, archaeological discoveries, each Party undertakes:

i) To make or bring up to date surveys, inventories and maps of archaeological sites in the areas within its jurisdiction;

ii) To take all practical measures to ensure the drafting, following archaeological operations, of a publishable scientific summary record before the necessary comprehensive publication of specialised studies.