Protection of natural and cultural heritage in the cintext of sustainable development

Abstract

In Lithuania, cultural heritage is protected and managed in accordance with the procedure provided in the Law on Protected Territories, the Law on the Protection of Immovable Cultural Heritage, the Law on the Protection of Movable Cultural Values and other legal acts of sub-laws of the Republic of Lithuania. Objects of natural and cultural heritage are divided into the following major groups: archaeological, mythological and memorial, and architectural-engineering. The management and protection of these officially legalized objects of cultural heritage is rather well regulated, but the practical level of their maintenance, exhibiting • circumstances and their condition are rather different. Different projects related to nature and ^culture might be expected to be financed from the EU structural funds