LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA

of December 18, 2002 No. ZR-465

About bases of the cultural legislation

Accepted by National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia on November 20, 2002

Chapter 1. General provisions

Article 1. Tasks of the cultural legislation of the Republic of Armenia

Tasks of the cultural legislation of the Republic of Armenia are:

1) providing and protection of constitutional right of citizens of the Republic of Armenia on freedom of expression, creativity, participation in cultural life of society;

2) regulation of the relations arising between subjects of cultural activities;

3) determination of the principles of the state cultural policy, legal basis of the state support of culture and guarantee of non-interference of the state to creative process;

4) creation of legal guarantees of preserving, distribution and development of cultural richness of the Republic of Armenia.

Article 2. Organization of the state cultural policy

The state cultural policy in the Republic of Armenia will be organized by the state strategic programs of preserving, development and dissemination of culture which affirm the Government of the Republic of Armenia.

Article 3. Principles of the state cultural policy

The basic principles of the state cultural policy are:

1) the state, public and democratic nature of management in the field of culture;

2) freedom of cultural and creative activities;

3) availability of cultural values to familiarizing with them;

4) priority of national cultural values of the international value;

5) independence of the cultural organizations;

6) cooperation between the state and private sector;

7) equality of starting conditions of participation in programs of the state support, irrespective of participant status;

8) pro rata development of different fields of art;

9) ensuring variety of cultural actions;

10) decentralization of culture expansion of the state cultural policy in regions and activation of cultural life of communities.

Article 4. Purposes of the state cultural policy

The purposes of the state cultural policy are:

1) awareness of culture by society as development tools;

2) search of new values and new ideas;

3) Creation of conditions for reproduction and development of creative capacity of society, activities stimulation busy or independent creators, forming of the favorable circle;

4) forming of civil society.

Article 5. Cultural legislation of the Republic of Armenia

The cultural legislation of the Republic of Armenia consists of the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, this Law, other laws and legal acts.

If international treaties of the Republic of Armenia establish other regulations, than those which are provided by this Law then are applied regulations of international treaties.

Article 6. The basic concepts used in this Law

The basic concepts used in this Law make the following sense and content:

the culture - set of the values, beliefs, customs, traditions, feelings, thinking and rules, behavior and actions of social coexistence created by people, social groups or public associations in material and spiritual spheres complex of social, economic and entertaining activity which provides transfer, inheritance and preserving cultural values creates identity of society and combines them around general values;

cultural activities - preserving, creation, distribution and interpretation of cultural values and objects (objects), presentation and realization of the cultural benefits;

cultural values - works of culture and art, art national creativity and crafts, folklore, ethical and esthetic ideals, regulations and examples of behavior, languages, dialects and dialects, national traditions and customs, historical and cultural toponyms, results and methods of scientific research of cultural activities, pieces (objects) of cultural heritage;

the cultural benefits - the cultural services rendered by legal entities and physical persons and the cultural products (goods) sold by them for the purpose of satisfaction of cultural requirements of the population;

the non-profit cultural organization - the organization which main objective of creation is implementation of cultural activities;

creative activities - creation and interpretation of cultural values;

the creative specialist - the physical person creating or interpreting cultural values;

the self-employed or independent creative person - the person having professional skills, offering professional services and who is engaged in creative activities, providing creative services or performing works, and also person revenue-producing by means of these activities in the field of culture and art;

person who is engaged in cultural activities - person performing creative activities for the employment or civil contract registered in the organization of the culture performing activities in coverages of article 7 of this Law;

the creative industry - production system of the new ideas, creative content and innovations, creations of cultural values, design, promoting, transfer, realization, resale, distribution and consumption of different cultural products and services;

the union of creative specialists - the voluntary consolidation of creative specialists having the status of public association and created according to the procedure, established by the legislation of the Republic of Armenia, on the basis of community of interests of creative specialists for satisfaction of spiritual or other non-material needs;

cultural heritage of the Republic of Armenia - set of the material and non-material cultural values created in the past which are integral part of the world heritage irrespective of the property right, have important cultural, spiritual, esthetic, sensual, scientific, economic value for individuals and communities, including ethnic minorities, are fundamental factor of encouragement and sustainable development of cultural diversity of the Republic of Armenia;

cultural richness of the Republic of Armenia - set of cultural values (including objects of cultural heritage and non-material cultural heritage) which have national value for the Armenian people, ethnic minorities which are citizens of the Republic of Armenia, and other ethnocultural groups;

the state cultural policy - activities of the state in the field of culture and set of the principles and regulations by which the state when implementing state policy is guided.

Article 7. Coverages of this Law

Operation of this Law extends to spheres:

1) protection, studying, use and promoting of objects of cultural heritage (historical and cultural monuments);

2) motion picture arts and other types of audiovisual arts;

3) fiction, architecture, fine arts, design, photo, scenic, space, musical art and other types and genres of art;

4) art folk art and crafts, national culture;

5) amateur (amateur) art creativity;

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