EN
Offices for the examination and documentation of historic monuments brought to life over 20 years ago are the institutions included into conservation service in Poland. There is still much doubt about their status, scope of activities and work, their rights and relations between them and administration. It is also not clear what way they should be developing as their legal status has not as yet been settled. Because of that, various professional circles have developed their own traditions and specificities, which resulted in marked differences in their size, manning, mode of functioning and legal status. The author of the article discusses reasons for the existing situation on the example of individual offices and taking for granted that an initial organizational stage has been completed he suggests that it should be necessary to harmonize the objectives of their existence with structural forms assumed by them. The implemented organizational system should be flexible and allow for their specific situations in individual voivodships. Still, it should not permit of diverging from the basic assumptions that have been proved correct as an effective instrument of the execution of conservation policy.