Cultural Heritage Protection Management Tasks

Legislative and regulatory background:
Government Decree 378/2016 (2 December) on the legal succession concerning the supervision of certain central offices and the ministerial background institutions operating in the form of a budgetary authority, as well as on the takeover of certain public tasks
Act CXCV of 2011 on Public Finances
Government Decree 368/2011 (31 December) on the execution of the Public Finances Act,
MvM Decree 8/2016 (25 March) on the management and use of the chapter operation estimate of expenditure and on the centralized estimate of expenditure

Our tasks:

The minister of Prime Minister’s Office charged the Directorate for Cultural Heritage Protection of Lechner Knowledge Centre Non-profit Ltd. with the task of public financing related project management. The minister’s tasks include building regulation and building authority issues, the cultural heritage protection, urban development, spatial planning, as well as related public financing matters.
In this framework, in the given financial year the directorate carries out the project management tasks, based on the agreement with the Prime Minister’s Office. The tasks include the management of public financing aimed at cultural heritage protection, the execution of project management agreement, and the administration of the funds for project management tasks.

With reference to the legal titles, listed in the agreement, the responsibilities of the Lechner Knowledge Centre Non-profit Ltd. include the dissemination and communication tasks related to the financing. Subsequent to that, the Centre also carries out the reception, registration, formal, substantive and expert supervision of the approved applications. Furthermore, it performs the legal and financial control, the processing of the applications and the verification of the applicants’ entitlement. Following the preliminary professional approval of the State Secretary and the Deputy State Secretary for Architecture and Construction of the Prime Minister’s Office, the Centre deals with the following issues: concludes grant contracts, issues grant decisions, controls submitted settlements of accounts, puts the budget reports in order, accepts performance.

Managing high-priority national strategy programmes:

National Hauszmann Programme
National Palace Program and the National Castle Programme
Supporting cultural development, cultural heritage protection and other tasks for companies
Monument Restoration Program Across the Borders
Traditional Hungarian Architecture Program

Managing further professional field assistance:

Building, architectural and settlement tasks
Cultural heritage protection professional tasks
Tasks arising from the World Heritage Act
Land-use planning tasks
Supporting heritage protection civil society organizations