Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, abbr. KONS (Bosnian: Komisija za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine), is Bosnia and Herzegovina commission (agency) which declares and registers national heritage monuments/sites, including natural/urban/architectural assembles, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as an institution at state level. The sites of exclusively natural heritage are not subject of Annex 8 and the KONS.

Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Komisija za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine
Logo of the KONS (CPNM)
Commission overview
FormedDecember 21, 2001 (2001-12-21)
JurisdictionCouncil of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
HeadquartersMaršala Tita 9A/1 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
43°51′32.9″N 18°24′46.6″E
Annual budget€0 Euros (2016)
Commission executives
  • Amir Pašić, (Ph.D., Professor of architecture), President of the Commission;
  • Radoje Vidović, (Professor of history and geography), Deputy President of the Commission;
  • Goran Milojević, (Architect), Deputy President of the Commission;
Parent departmentCouncil of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Child Commission
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In accordance to Annex 8 of Dayton Agreement and Act concerning the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed by Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina at 119. session from December 21, 2001, KONS is an institution at state level which declares and registers national heritage monuments/sites, including natural/urban/architectural assembles, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1][2] The act states that The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina is established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishes basic principles and objectives of the Commission activities,[1] as well as its primary tasks and authorizations as Bosnia and Herzegovina institution.[3][4]
Act was issued by Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Službeni glasnik BiH), No. 1/02 i 10/02,[5] and Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina No. 2/02, 27/02 and 6/04.

For declaration of the property to be the national monuments, property and political criterion are not of special importance. However, since 2016 three native members of the Commission are picked on the basis of their ethnicity (Bosniak, Croat and Serb), and regardless of their prior or current political engagements, which could prove to be controversial.[6]

Regulation of conduct and procedures

Regulation of conduct and procedures in a framework of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina are as stipulated in most recent Act of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from May 26, 2016 - under principal provisions, methodology, procedures, cooperation with institutions and official bodies, transparency, and final articles.[7]

Commissioners

At the 119th session of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on 21 December 2001, the first members of the Commission for period 2002 to February 2016 were elected:[8]

Members of the Commission since February 2016 are[10]

  • Amir Pašić, Ph.D., Professor of architecture - President of the Commission
  • Radoje Vidović, Professor of history and geography - Deputy President of the Commission
  • Goran Milojević, Architect - Deputy President of the Commission

Internal Organization of the Commission (Secretariat)

The Secretariat is managed and organized by the Executive officer, and is structured with the Executive officer, the Secretariat of the Commission, and the Associate experts, the Librarian and documentarist, and the Technical secretary, as follows:

The Executive officer

  • Executive officer

The Secretariat of the Commission, consists of:

  • Executive officer
  • Assistant to the executive officer for the heritage
  • Assistant to the executive officer for legal affairs
  • Advisor for technical coordination (chief of staff)

The Associate experts consists of:

  • Associates for architectural heritage monuments
  • Associates for architectural heritage ensembles and cultural landscapes
  • Associate for archaeology
  • Associate for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention
  • Art historian associate
  • Budget and public procurements associate
  • Finance associate
  • International law associate
  • Public relations associate

The Librarian and documentarist

The Technical secretary.

Criteria to designate the properties as National Monuments
See also: List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments declares legal protection of the property to be the national monument on the ground of criteria based on subject, scope and value of each property.[11]

A. Portable cultural property

Portable cultural property, individual or in collections, classified as follows:

  • small objects (home furnishings, clothing, working equipment, tools, handicraft products, etc.)
  • paintings,
  • books,
  • sculptures,
  • building fragments,
  • inscriptions, etc.
1. Historic buildings and monuments
  • residential,
  • religious,
  • educational,
  • administrative,
  • public,
  • commercial,
  • infrastructure,
  • military,
  • hygienic,
  • agricultural,
  • industrial, etc.
2. Groups of buildings

Groups of buildings which are either part of a composition with a certain purpose or an agglomeration which is the result of continuous building in a historic core.

  • residential,
  • religious,
  • educational,
  • administrative,
  • public,
  • commercial,
  • infrastructure,
  • military,
  • hygienic,
  • agricultural,
  • industrial, etc.
3. Sites
  • urban,
  • rural,
  • archaeological,
  • historical,
  • industrial,
  • cultural landscape
  • natural site related to some ritual or tradition,
  • natural-scientific,
  • mixed.

A. Time frame

Properties arisen from the prehistoric times until the end of the 20th century.

B. Historic value

Association of a building, or group or place to a historic figure in the history or a significant event in the history.

C. Artistic and aesthetic value

i. Quality of workmanship, ii. Quality of material, iii. Proportions, iv. Composition, v. Value of a detail, vi. Structural value.

D. Clarity

Documentary, scientific and educational or pedagogic value. i. Material evidence about less known historic era, ii. Evidence of historic changes, iii. Work of a famous artist or builder, iv. Evidence of certain type, style or regional manner, v. Evidence of a typical lifestyle in the certain era.

E. Symbolic value

i. Ontology value, ii. Sacral value, iii. Traditional value, iv. Relation to the rituals or traditions, v. Significance for the identity of a group of people.

F. Townscape/Landscape value

i. Relation of the form in the comparison with other parts of the group, ii. Meaning in the townscape, iii. A building or a group of buildings is a part of a group or site.

G. Authenticity

i. Form and design, ii. Materials and substance, iii. Use and function, iv. Traditions and techniques, v. Location and setting, vi. Spirit and feeling, and vii. Other internal and external factors.

H. Uniqueness/rarity

i. The single or rare example of an object type or style, ii. A masterpiece of workmanship or course, iii. Work of a prominent artist/ architect, craftsman.

I. Integrity (groups, sites, collections)

i. Material wholeness, ii. Homogeneity, iii. Completeness, iv. Unimpaired condition.

International conventions

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a signatory of International conventions and contracts in the field of cultural heritage,[12] such as:

UNESCO

  • Hague Convention of 1954 (the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which include Rulebook, Protocol I, Protocol II);
  • Paris Convention of 1970 (the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage);
  • Paris Convention of 1972 (on Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property);
  • Paris Convention of 2001 (the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage);
  • Paris Convention of 2003 (the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage);
  • Paris Convention of 2005 (the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity).

European Council

  • European Cultural Convention1954 (Paris);
  • European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage 1969 (London), Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the revised Valletta 1992 version in 2009);
  • Granada Convention of 1985 (the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe);
  • Faro Framework Convention of 2005 (the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society);
  • European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000).

Other bilateral and multilateral

  • Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works from 1886, revised in Paris in 1971, and amended in 1979.
  • Agreement between the BiH Council of Ministers and the Government of the United States, the protection and preservation of particular cultural properties signed on 2 July 2002, ratified on 21 July 2004 (in the appendix of the Official Gazette of BiH - International Agreements, no. 6/04)
  • Agreement between the BiH Government and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, cooperation in culture, education and science, signed on 21 July 2004, ratified on 26 October 2005 (in the appendix of the Official Gazette of BiH - International Agreements, no. 11/05)
  • UNIDROIT Convention on the International Return of Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Properties (Rome, 1995)
  • Rezolution CM/Res (2010) 52 on rules for the award of the “Cultural route of the Council of Europe“ certification (approved by the Council of Ministers on 8 December 2010)
  • UNESCO's General Assembly Recommendation concerning the Safeguarding of Beauty and Character of Landscapes and Sites (11 December 1962);
  • Vienna Memorandum on World Heritage and contemporary architecture - Managing the historic urban landscape;
  • ICOMOS Charter for the interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage, under the auspices of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for the interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage, ratified on 4 October 2008 at the 16th General Assembly of ICOMOS, Quebec, Canada.

Official Gazette

Act was issued by Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Službeni glasnik BiH), No. 1/02 i 10/02.,[13] and Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina No. 2/02, 27/02 and 6/04/. All later acts and decisions are consequently published also.[5][6][7][10]
Criteria are published in the Official Gazette of BiH and the Official Gazettes of both Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

See also

References
  1. "Zapisnik sa 119. sjednice PBiH". www.predsjednistvobih.ba (in Bosnian and English). Predsjedništvo Bosne i Hercegovine. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  2. "DECISION OF BIH PRESIDENCY ON COMMISSION TO PRESERVE NATIONAL MONUMENTS". kons.gov.ba. Commission to protect national monuments. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  3. "POWERS OF THE COMMISSION TO PRESERVE NATIONAL MONUMENTS". kons.gov.ba (in English and Bosnian). Commission to preserve national monuments. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  4. "Poslovnik o radu Komisije za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine". www.bkbih.ba (in Bosnian and Croatian). Biskupska konferencija BiH. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  5. "Službeni glasnik BiH - Pregled Dokumenta 1/02-10/02". www.sluzbenilist.ba (in Bosnian). Službeni List. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  6. "Službeni glasnik BiH - Pregled Dokumenta - Odluka o dopuni Odluke o Komisiji". www.sluzbenilist.ba (in Bosnian). Službeni List. Retrieved 21 September 2016. U Odluci o Komisiji za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika ("Službeni glasnik BiH", broj 1/02 i 10/02), u članu 7. iza riječi "Komisija usvaja opće akte," dodaju se riječi: "sa tri glasa - konsenzusom domaćih članova" i interpunkcijski znak "zarez".
  7. "Službeni glasnik BiH - Pregled Dokumenta - Osnovne odredbe". www.sluzbenilist.ba (in Bosnian). Službeni List. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  8. "DECISION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION TO PRESERVE NATIONAL MONUMENTS". old.kons.gov.ba (in English and Serbo-Croatian). Commission to preserve national monuments. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  9. "Andras Riedlmayer". library.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  10. "Službeni glasnik BiH - Pregled Dokumenta - Imenovanje članova Komisije". www.sluzbenilist.ba (in Bosnian). Službeni list. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  11. "Komisija za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika". old.kons.gov.ba (in Bosnian and English). Old website (archive) Commission to preserve national monuments. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  12. "International multilateral agreements the party to which is Bosnia and Herzegovina or which it is connected to (in the field of cultural heritage)". kons.gov.ba. Sarajevo: KONS. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  13. "Službeni glasnik BiH - Search result: Odluke Predsjedništva BiH o Komisiji". www.sluzbenilist.ba (in Bosnian). Službeni List. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

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