Montenegro Culture

​Central

State authorities are responsible for:

  • Legislation in fields of cultural heritage and the media;
  • Public broadcasting laws and services;
  • Strategies and policies;
  • Centralised cultural activities and issuing tenders for cultural projects;
  • Arts and creative projects legislation;
  • Regulating library activity and the national archives;
  • Regulating museums;
  • Programmes for preservation and protection cultural sites and items;
  • International Co-operation in the cultural sector;
  • Cooperation with NGOs for oversight of theatres;
  • Freedom of information requests and facilitating a working group as deemed by the law on Free Access to Information (consisting in NGO members).
  • Coordination of Culture and the MEDIA Sub-programmes under Creative Europe and management of EU funds.

 

Local

Municipalities are responsible for:

  • Regulating cultural development;
  • Maintaining cultural facilities (museums, etc.);
  • Making decisions on expropriating heritable property to meet local needs;
  • Cultural heritage;
  • Promotion of local cultural activities.

 

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Culture
 
Sources:

Law on Local Self-Government

Ministry Projects

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