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The encouragement to present this article was provided by discussions ocf Warsaw section of the Association of Monuments Conservators on the proposed amendments to the Palish 1962 law “On the Protection of Cultural Property and on Museums”. A direct incentive were however publications presenting the position of discussions in Italy. The author analyses the most important elements of present concepts of legal and structural regulations in the field 'of the protection of Italian cultural property in the light of historic background. His reports and thoughts have been summed up in the fallowing items: — The notion of “cultural property” coined in the sixties, based on a historical and anthropological crdteterions, has become widely accepted in professional, social ond parliamentary practice in Italy. — Basic studies on the analysis 'of condition, needs as well as proposals of practical solutions included in legislative or other norms have been executed (during works of several parliamentary commissions headed by politicians of higher or highest rank. — Apart from the formal recording in the constitution the above statement is just the acknowledgement of a high standing of the protection of cultural property in today’s Italy. — In the basic political reform in force since 1970, i.e. decentralization, both Italian parliament and specialistic agencies involved in monuments protection have worked out a temporary model making it possible to realize the reform, stage by stage, iin the field of broadly conceived monuments protection and conservation. The emphasis has been put an a stranger decentralization in the protection of cultural property, though central administration has been entrusted with a leading role in a long-term and yearly planning, analysis of the execution, working out of joint methodological bases as well as training. The primacy, even .in that quite narrow though a basic branch, (does not at all infringe a factual independence of regions in solving their problems.