The notions of the museum sphere, the kinds, the functions of the museums, the principles of handing over for temporary preservation with museum items in the State Museum of the Republic of Armenia, replenishing, registering, publicizing them, the forms of the support to the museums and collections will be fixed by the adoption of the draft.
The RA Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Alfred Kocharyan said this during the regular sitting of the Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport held on January 9, presenting the draft law on Museums in the first reading to the Committee members and the addenda being proposed in the Code on Administrative Offences.
According to the rapporteur, the elaboration of the legislative package is conditioned by the implementation of the programme of the activity measures of the Government for 2021-2026, as well as by the demand of the implementation of the RA-EU Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement Road Map.
“As a result of the adoption of the regulations, the powers of the authorized state body will be specified, the RA National Museum Collection, the preservation of the museum items and set of collections included in it, the temporary export, etc. The goals of the use of the museums, the powers of the Museums’ Council,” Alfred Kocharyan said. He added that, as result of the draft law adoption, the systemized activity of preservation and protection of cultural heritage, the creation of the economic new mechanisms in the sphere of culture will be ensures, as well as the relations arising between the legal and natural persons will be regulated in the sphere.
The MPs addressed questions to the key rapporteur, which related to the specification of the museums’ status, the number of the employees and their salary increase in the sphere, the ban of the opportunities of the alienation of the state museums’ samples and other topics.
The Deputy Chair of the Standing Committee on Science, Education, Culture, Diaspora, Youth and Sport presented the co-report of the draft. Taguhi Ghazaryan informed that during the period from the first to the second reading an agreement was reached to debate more detailed the legislative package. The MP spoke about the conditions of the preservation of the museum samples, the museum management form and its efficiency. Taguhi Ghazaryan called to endorse the proposing initiative.
The Committee unanimously voted for the adoption of the legislative package.
The debate of the legislative package envisaging amendments and addenda to the law on Professional Education and Teaching was postponed by the author’s proposal up to two-month term. The Committee made a decision to organize parliamentary hearings on the theme The Legislative Reforms and Fundamental Directions on Professional Education and Teaching in the National Assembly on January 24, at 12:00.
National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia
