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Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Komisija za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine
Logo of the KONS (CPNM)
Former Higijenski zavod building, now Ministry of Health of the Federation of BiH, where the KONS is located - entrance from the park beyond the right edge of the image
Commission overview
Formed	December 21, 2001 (2001-12-21)
Jurisdiction	Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Headquarters	Maršala Tita 9A/1 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 43°51′32.9″N 18°24′46.6″E / 43.859139°N 18.412944°E / 43.859139; 18.412944
Annual budget	€0 Euros (2016)
Commission executives	Anđelina Ošap-Gaćanović, Commissioner and current chairperson Faruk Kapidžić, Deputy Commissioner Zoran Mikulić, Deputy Commissioner
Parent department	Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Child Commission	Entity agencies
Key documents	Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina Act of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Website	KONS (new website); Old KONS (old website used as an archive)

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, abbr. KONS (Serbo-Croatian: Komisija za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine), is Bosnia and Herzegovina commission (agency) which declares and registers national heritage monuments/sites, including natural/urban/architectural assembles, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina, as an institution at state level. The sites of exclusively natural heritage are not subject of Annex 8 and the KONS.

Establishment and legal scope

In accordance to Annex 8 of Dayton Agreement and Act concerning the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina passed by Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina at 119. session from December 21, 2001, KONS is an institution at state level which declares and registers national heritage monuments/sites, including natural/urban/architectural assembles, immovable and movable heritage of historical and cultural importance to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The act states that The Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina is established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishes basic principles and objectives of the Commission activities, as well as its primary tasks and authorizations as Bosnia and Herzegovina institution.
Act was issued by Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Službeni glasnik BiH), No. 1/02 i 10/02, and Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina No. 2/02, 27/02 and 6/04.

For declaration of the property to be the national monuments, property and political criterion are not of special importance. However, since 2016 three native members of the Commission are picked on the basis of their ethnicity (Bosniak, Croat and Serb), and regardless of their prior or current political engagements, which could prove to be controversial.

Regulation of conduct and procedures

Regulation of conduct and procedures in a framework of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina are as stipulated in most recent Act of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from May 26, 2016 - under principal provisions, methodology, procedures, cooperation with institutions and official bodies, transparency, and final articles.

Commissioners

At the 119th session of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held on 21 December 2001, the first members of the commission for period 2002 to February 2016 were elected, which was subsequently changed into 5 year mandate, while posts of the chairperson and deputies are switched during the mandate on rotation basis.

First members of the commission for the period 2002 to February 2016 were:

• Dubravko Lovrenović, (Ph.D., Professor of history at University of Sarajevo);
• Amra Hadžimuhamedović;
• Ljiljana Ševo;
• Tina Wik, (until June 2008);
• Zeynep Ahunbay, (Turkey);
• Martin Cherry, (UK);
• András J. Riedlmayer, (Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture in Fine Arts Library at Harvard University, US).

Members of the commission for the period February 2016 to 2021 were:

• Amir Pašić, Ph.D., Professor of architecture;
• Radoje Vidović, Professor of history and geography;
• Goran Milojević, Architect .

Current members of the commission from 2021 are:

• Anđelina Ošap-Gaćanović, Mr. engineer of architecture, graduated at the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering of the University of Banja Luka, and master of monument restoration at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona;
• Faruk Kapidžić, engineer of architecture, graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Sarajevo;
• Zoran Mikulić, graduated at the Faculty of Law of the University Džemal Bijedić of Mostar, completed the bar examination, and the Legal Practice Course.

Internal organization of the Commission (Secretariat)

The Secretariat is managed and organized by the Executive officer, and is structured with the Executive officer, the Secretariat of the Commission, and the Associate experts, the Librarian and documentarist, and the Technical secretary, as follows:

The Executive officer

• Executive officer

The Secretariat of the Commission, consists of:

• Executive officer
• Assistant to the executive officer for the heritage
• Assistant to the executive officer for legal affairs
• Advisor for technical coordination (chief of staff)

The Associate experts consists of:

• Associates for architectural heritage monuments

• Associates for architectural heritage ensembles and cultural landscapes
• Associate for archaeology
• Associate for the implementation of the World Heritage Convention
• Art historian associate
• Budget and public procurements associate
• Finance associate
• International law associate
• Public relations associate

The Librarian and documentarist

The Technical secretary.

Procedures and scope

The Rules of Procedure regulate the modus operandi of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, including internal dynamics and the decision-making process of Proceedings. The set of rules and guidelines was established by the Commission to Preserve National Monuments, at the session held between 7 and 11 May 2002.

Proceedings before the Commission

Petitions

Article 35 stipulates that a petition for the designation of property as a national monument needs to be submitted to the Commission.

The petition have a format determined by the Commission according to the type of property and is published in the official gazettes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, both entities and District Brčko.

The List of Petitions for Designation of Properties as National Monuments is created through submission of the petitions.

Designation

Designation of property as a national monument is a process of decision making in which the Commission takes into account previous designation, research documents. Before making the final decision the Commission also takes into account the views of the petitioner, the institutions in charge of protection, experts, scientist and scientific institutions, and other interested persons and entities.

Provisional List

The Provisional List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Official Gazette of BiH no. 33/02) was drawn up by the previous complement of the Commission. Art.2 of the Law on the Implementation of the Decisions of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments established pursuant to Annex 8 of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in BiH (Official Gazette of the Federation of BiH nos. 2/02 and 27/02) stipulates that all properties on the Provisional List are to be regarded as national monuments until the Commission adopts a final decision. All final decisions of the Commission are published in the official gazettes of Bosnia and Herzegovina, including those of entities and Brčko District. Once final decisions have been adopted for all the properties on the Provisional List, the List will be abolished.

Heritage at Risk

Monuments at Risk In Bosnia and Herzegovina is a list of designated monuments at risk from illicit building, inexpert reconstruction, lack of maintenance and other hazards. The Commission monitors and reviews the state and activities relating to national monuments at risk.

Criteria to designate the properties as National Monuments

The Commission to Preserve National Monuments declares legal protection of the property to be the national monument on the ground of criteria based on subject, scope and value of each property.

I. Subjects of legal protection

A. Portable cultural property

Portable cultural property, individual or in collections, classified as follows:

• small objects (home furnishings, clothing, working equipment, tools, handicraft products, etc.)
• paintings,
• books,
• sculptures,
• building fragments,
• inscriptions, etc.

B. Immovable cultural property

1. Historic buildings and monuments

• residential,
• religious,
• educational,
• administrative,
• public,
• commercial,
• infrastructure,
• military,
• hygienic,
• agricultural,
• industrial, etc.

2. Groups of buildings

Groups of buildings which are either part of a composition with a certain purpose or an agglomeration which is the result of continuous building in a historic core.

• residential,
• religious,
• educational,
• administrative,
• public,
• commercial,
• infrastructure,
• military,
• hygienic,
• agricultural,
• industrial, etc.

3. Sites

• urban,
• rural,
• archaeological,
• historical,
• industrial,
• cultural landscape
• natural site related to some ritual or tradition,
• natural-scientific,
• mixed.

II. Value

Criteria for designation as follows:

A. Time frame

Properties arisen from the prehistoric times until the end of the 20th century.

B. Historic value

Association of a building, or group or place to a historic figure in the history or a significant event in the history.

C. Artistic and aesthetic value

i. Quality of workmanship, ii. Quality of material, iii. Proportions, iv. Composition, v. Value of a detail, vi. Structural value.

D. Clarity

Documentary, scientific and educational or pedagogic value.

i. Material evidence about less known historic era, ii. Evidence of historic changes, iii. Work of a famous artist or builder, iv. Evidence of certain type, style or regional manner, v. Evidence of a typical lifestyle in the certain era.

E. Symbolic value

i. Ontology value, ii. Sacral value, iii. Traditional value, iv. Relation to the rituals or traditions, v. Significance for the identity of a group of people.

F. Townscape/Landscape value

i. Relation of the form in the comparison with other parts of the group, ii. Meaning in the townscape, iii. A building or a group of buildings is a part of a group or site.

G. Authenticity

i. Form and design, ii. Materials and substance, iii. Use and function, iv. Traditions and techniques, v. Location and setting, vi. Spirit and feeling, and vii. Other internal and external factors.

H. Uniqueness/rarity

i. The single or rare example of an object type or style, ii. A masterpiece of workmanship or course, iii. Work of a prominent artist/ architect, craftsman.

I. Integrity (groups, sites, collections)

i. Material wholeness, ii. Homogeneity, iii. Completeness, iv. Unimpaired condition.

International conventions

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a signatory of International conventions and contracts in the field of cultural heritage, such as:

UNESCO

• Hague Convention of 1954 (the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which include Rulebook, Protocol I, Protocol II);
• Paris Convention of 1970 (the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage);
• Paris Convention of 1972 (on Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property);
• Paris Convention of 2001 (the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage);
• Paris Convention of 2003 (the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage);
• Paris Convention of 2005 (the Protection and Promotion of Cultural Diversity).

European Council

• European Cultural Convention1954 (Paris);
• European Convention on the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage 1969 (London), Bosnia and Herzegovina signed the revised Valletta 1992 version in 2009);
• Granada Convention of 1985 (the Protection of the Architectural Heritage of Europe);
• Faro Framework Convention of 2005 (the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society);
• European Landscape Convention (Florence, 2000).

Other bilateral and multilateral

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works from 1886, revised in Paris in 1971, and amended in 1979.
• Agreement between the BiH Council of Ministers and the Government of the United States, the protection and preservation of particular cultural properties signed on 2 July 2002, ratified on 21 July 2004 (in the appendix of the Official Gazette of BiH - International Agreements, no. 6/04)
• Agreement between the BiH Government and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, cooperation in culture, education and science, signed on 21 July 2004, ratified on 26 October 2005 (in the appendix of the Official Gazette of BiH - International Agreements, no. 11/05)
• UNIDROIT Convention on the International Return of Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Properties (Rome, 1995)
• Rezolution CM/Res (2010) 52 on rules for the award of the “Cultural route of the Council of Europe“ certification (approved by the Council of Ministers on 8 December 2010)
• UNESCO's General Assembly Recommendation concerning the Safeguarding of Beauty and Character of Landscapes and Sites (11 December 1962);
• Vienna Memorandum on World Heritage and contemporary architecture - Managing the historic urban landscape;
• ICOMOS Charter for the interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage, under the auspices of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for the interpretation and presentation of cultural heritage, ratified on 4 October 2008 at the 16th General Assembly of ICOMOS, Quebec, Canada.

Yearbook and Official Gazette

Yearbook Baština

Baština (transl. Heritage) is the official yearbook or the annual of the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which publishes scholarly articles in the field of heritage protection, history, history of art, archaeology, architecture and culture. Previous issues of the journal have published mostly on topics of the medieval heritage, such as the medieval stećci tombstones (stećci), and the medieval fortress of Jajce, in particular.

Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Act to establish commission was issued by Official Gazette of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian: Službeni glasnik BiH), No. 1/02 i 10/02., and Official Gazette of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina No. 2/02, 27/02 and 6/04/. All later acts and decisions are consequently published also.
Criteria are published in the Official Gazette of BiH and the Official Gazettes of both Entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The final decisions of the Commission on designation of monuments are published in the official gazettes of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

See also

• List of heritage registers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of World Heritage Sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of fortifications in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of bridges in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of World War II monuments and memorials in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of People's Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• List of museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina

References

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4. "Poslovnik o radu Komisije za očuvanje nacionalnih spomenika Bosne i Hercegovine". www.bkbih.ba (in Bosnian and Croatian). Biskupska konferencija BiH. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
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Further reading

• For the criteria see English website: Commission to preserve national monuments (or chose language: Commission to preserve national monuments - old website is also still in use as an archive;
• for the UNESCO criteria see the Selection criteria.

External links

• Commission to preserve national monuments - new website
• List of monuments - in one place at KONS portal
• Commission to preserve national monuments - old website in use as an archive

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v t e National monuments of  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Cultural–historical heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina as designated by Commission to preserve national monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in accordance to Annex 8 of Dayton Agreement For official site names and detailed information, see each article or the List of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Buildings and structures	Buildings Vijećnica Gimnazija Mostar Sarajevo train station Morića Han Gazi Husrev-bey Library Gazi Husrev-bey Bezistan Gazi Husrev-bey Hamam Brusa Bezistan Kino Apolo Sarajevo National Theatre National Museum of BiH Bunkers & underground structures ARK/D-0 Željava Air Base Bridges Stari Most Kriva Ćuprija Kosor Bridge Stara Ćuprija Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Kozija Ćuprija Šeher-Ćehaja Bridge Skenderija Bridge Roman bridge at Ilidža Latin Bridge Drvenija Bridge Ćumurija Bridge Čobanija Bridge Bridge over Žepa Stara Ćuprija Glavatičevo Veliki Most Perići Arslanagića Ćuprija Karađoz-begova Ćuprija Inat Ćuprija Klepci Ćuprija Djevojačka Ćuprija Stara Ćuprija Duman Ovčiji Brod Ćuprija Studenci Clock-towers Počiteljska sahat-kula Fočanska‎ sahat-kula Livanjska sahat-kula Sarajevska (Baščarsijska) sahat-kula Travnička (Gornja Čaršija) sahat-kula Travnička (Musala) sahat-kula Fountains Sebilj
Medieval fortifications castles,walled cities, open & market towns	Royal court Royal court in Sutjeska Visoko Bobovac Jajce Open & market towns Visoko Vrhbosna Drijeva Prača Walled cities Bobovac Jajce Livno Počitelj Vratnik Zvornik Castles & citadels Bijela Tabija Blagaj Bobovac Bočac Fortress Borač Castle Bosanska Krupa Fortress Bužim Castle Počitelj Fortress of Doboj Glamoč Fortress Gradačac Castle Greben Fort Hodidjed Hutovo Fort Jajce Citadel Kamengrad Fort Kastel Fortress Ključ Castle (Gacko) Ključ Castle (Ključ) Komotin Castle Kotor Hrvoje's Fort Ljubuški Fortress Maglaj Fortress Momčilo's Citadel Old town of Visoki Orašac Fort Ostrožac Castle Ostrovica Castle Prusac Fortress Samobor Castle Sokol kod Osat Grada Sokol kod Gračanice Sokol na Plivi Sokolac Citadel Srebrenik Fortress Stolac Fortress (Vidoški Grad) Teočak Castle Tešanj Castle Travnik Castle Velika Kladuša Castle Visuć Citadel (Black Queen's Citadel) Vranduk Vrnograč Castle Vujadin's Citadel Zvečaj Fortress Zvornik Castle Žuta Tabija Odžaci (towers) Šurkovića odžak (tower) Captain's Citadel Fazlagić odžak (tower) Redžep-pašina odžak (tower) Smajilagića odžak (tower)
Architectural ensembles	Vranduk Old Town of Mostar Blagaj Baščaršija Počitelj Džidžikovac Čekaluša street Vratnik old walled neighborhood
Natural & cultural-historical ensembles / Cultural landscape	Stolac Jajce Vrelo Bune Blidinje Lukomir Blatačko Lake
Industrial architectural ensembles	Old Marijin Dvor power station Old Hrid power station Small hydro power plant Bihać on Jarak in Bihać (a.k.a. Hydro power plant „Jarak“, or „Canal Una“) Koševo chimney
Traditional household	Despić House Svrzo's House Muslibegović House Bišćević House Velagićevina Begovina
Religious sites, properties and places of worship	Islamic Begova Aladža Mosque Muslihudin Čekrekčija Mosque Arnaudija Ferhadija Fethija Mosque Alipašina Careva Dukatareva Karadžozbegova Koski Catholic Sarajevo Cathedral Kraljeva Sutjeska Monastery Monastery of St. Catharine Monastery of the Holy Spirit Church of St John Church of Saint Anthony of Padua Orthodox Old Church Church of St. Archangel Michael Serbian Orthodox Cathedral in Sarajevo Dobrićevo Monastery Lomnica Monastery Papraća Monastery Rmanj Monastery Judaic Old Temple New Temple Ashkenazi Synagogue Il Kal Grande Bosnian Church Stećci Other (Temple of Mithras) Jajački Mithraeum Konjički Mithraeum
Antiquity	Illyrians Daorson Desilo Roman Mogorjelo Berginium Malvesa Serbinum Tasovčići Early Christianity Cim
Bronze Age	Butmir Culture
Memorials, cemeteries and necropolis	Memorials Heroes of Yugoslavia monuments Vraca Memorial Kozara Memorial Partisan Memorial Mostar Partisan Memorial Livno Bridge on the Neretva Lav Cemetery Eternal flame Moshe Danon's shrine Necropolis for the victims of Fascism Cemeteries Old Jewish Cemetery St. John Alifakovac Kovači Koševo Lav Cemetery Türbe mausoleums Turbe Vizier's grave Travnik Turbeta Sijerčića Semiz Ali-pašino Turbe Sijerčić Turbes Tombs, Crypts & catacombs Hrvoje Vukčić crypt Batalo's tomb Necropolis Stećci Radimlja
Movable property/Other	Sarajevo Haggadah Zmijanje embroidery Mural Zuke Džumhura
World Heritage Sites	Stari Most Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Stećci
Related topics Archives, museums, etc.	Archives Ottoman Archives fund of the Gazi Husrev-Bey Library Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina Archives of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Archives of Republika Srpska Museums List of museums in Bosnia and Herzegovina Museum of Sarajevo National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Herzegovina Museum Museum of Sarajevo Museum of the Old Bridge Museum of the National Struggle for Liberation Museum of Modern Art of Republika Srpska Museum of Old Herzegovina Sarajevo War Tunnel Svrzo House Despić House Museum of the First Proletarian Brigade, Rudo
Shared with Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia

v t e World Heritage Sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Stari Most Stećak Vjetrenica Cave Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe (Prašuma Janj)
with Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia with Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine

v t e Bosnia and Herzegovina topics
History	Early history Illyricum Medieval history Early Bosnia Banate of Bosnia Kingdom of Bosnia Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina Austro-Hungarian Bosnia and Herzegovina Kingdom of Yugoslavia World War II Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian War Ethnic cleansing Bosnian genocide Siege of Sarajevo
Geography	Cities Climate Environment Extreme points Fauna Birds Mammals Geology Lakes Mountains Protected areas Regions Bosnia Herzegovina Rivers
Governance	Administrative divisions Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Republika Srpska Armed Forces Constitution Corruption Council of Ministers Chairman Elections Foreign relations Law enforcement Parliament Political parties Politics Presidency Chairman Members
Economy	Central Bank Currency Telecommunications Tourism Transport
Society	Bosnians (Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs) Demographics Ethnic groups Education Human rights Languages LGBT rights LGBT history Religion Wars
Culture	Anthem Architecture Art Bosnian language Bosniak epic poetry Cinema Coat of arms Cuisine Bosnian pot Ćevapi Wine Decorations and medals Literature Music National Flag National monuments Public holidays Radio Serbian epic poetry Symbols Television World Heritage Sites

• National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• World Heritage Sites in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Heritage registers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• World Heritage Tentative List for Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Historic preservation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Cultural heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Heritage registers
• 2001 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina