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The Law of 1962 on the Protection of Cultural Property has been drawing the attention of specialists for years. Its amendment is necessary for various reasons including social, economic and administrative ones that cause its ill-adjustment to the needs of practice. The author's intention is to bring to Readers' attention the most important points of the d iscussion on the draft of the amended Law. Such problems as relations between goods of culture, their protection and environmental control, establishment of origin and value are being taken into consideration. Certain aspects of the ownership of the objects (immobiles) entered onto the list of monuments have also been discussed. The weakness of the 1962 Law in practice is, i.a., caused by the lack of a precise description of rights and obligations as a separate regulation of the protection and museology, of owners and authorities, especially in a decision-making process. According to the author, the actions carried out in the field of protection have an administrative nature and therefore call for more efficient procedural instruments existing in the form of the Code of the Administrative Procedure, together with the Supreme Administrative Court’s control. Without a possibility of their implementation, even the best laws cannot help to save the relics of our past for fu ture generations — concludes the author his view expressed in a general discussion on the amendment of the 1962 Law